Some teachers left a huge mark on me too.
I remember very specially my first teacher - from 4 to 8 years old. She was always so kind and attentive with all of us, almost like a grandma.

From high school I mainly remember some teachers who had a passion for the subject they taught, they were inspiring.


That's why I think teachers should be selected with utmost care.
They do make a difference, for good or for bad.

A violin!
That's really unique!

I've never had a teacher do such an strange thing, but some of them were really really nice.
As a teacher I definetely could not do it myself, I'd feel so out of place, but it's cute.

I do think lots of subjects are deemed less important, dunno.

I started to love economics/geography and history when I noticed the link. I was 15 I think? Geography really decides whether a country is rich or poor, in the past and now. So, there's economics. I felt genious and started to put them all together, look at the whole, instead of subjects and loved it like this.

My favourite teacher was an economics teacher, hence maybe my interest there? He seemed super stern, nobody dared to sit in his class when we had the hour where we were free to pick a teacher to work with. Untill we actually attended his class. He was stern, wanted to use his time, but had a great antennae for when the class was tired or just couldn't listen anymore. He tended to start about something different at perfect times. Respect for the teacher was there and fun whenever needed. He'd open his private cupboard and something came out of there. Either a recorder. Or he watched gymclass outside and pulled out an old diploma he got. Somehow it was the perfect combination of learning and fun. After getting to know him, we loved picking his classroom for this "pick your own classroom to work" hour.

That's a lovely story, Jolien


The detail some people don't notice is you need to learn several disciplines before you are able to make the connection.

It's not impossible to do it the other way round, but it's much harder.

Guess so, though why are those different subjects? I believe there is even education like that, primary school for sure. They pick a theme, for example a country and then learn about the culture, where it is, the people, some dishes, anything really. And without calling it geography or whatever, it still contained it all.

Ah well, all the ideas, in the end, I'm not even sure if I want to find a different school for my kiddo. :>

Probably the first part of primary school.
And it's all good to keep people interested and also to get a superficial knowledge of any topic.
But the problem is that it does not allow you to go deep into anything at all.

Some school heres are developing this kind of education, based on projects.
So students make a project and they learn many things about that project, not separating the knowledge by areas or subjects - just what they need and when they need it.
While it's very cool, the fact is that those students get to high school having learned much less than students from other schools :|

So... cool as it seems, changing to such a method might mean our kids would need to study more years to reach an appropiate level to get to an university.
Which is not so cool.

Hahaha, such a twisted exposition of an urban legend.

There are so many urban legends nowadays.
I would have expected that now that everybody has internet access people would look up things and not believe silly things.
But apparently it's the other way around: silly things spread even faster than before!