Status Updates From Education of Character

I am continuing to enjoy being infuriated by him. It’s like studying an old superior ass under a microscope. He advocates strongly for answering questions honestly and to the best of your ability and not pretending at perfection. He also throws out that his advice is for the “abler students” and some things should be controlled for via eugenics. Nodding along and then BANG the fuck was that opinion Bertie?!?

It’s interesting to read a well reasoned if occasionally painful account of a lot the old “common sense” on childhood and education. This guy really really believes that children are a blank slate onto which their lives are etched. I am much more of a believer in co-constructed knowledge and that kids are born people not just future adults. It’s validating to disagree so passionately with someone.

I had a little meltdown last week about feeling pressure at work to “clicker train the children” this book opens with an argument to essentially clicker train the newborn so it will grow up to be a morally upstanding future adult.