Are you aware that the high stakes tests now use synonyms to define words? And teachers are required to write their vocabulary questions in the same format--not using definitions. I want to scream, too. Frustrated.
I hope to god you are NOT a teacher, b/c listening to you is WORSE than watching paint dry! Dry delivery, monotone and tiresome. You exemplify the worst in teaching, but of course you might be trying to make that point by your rant.
I feel like this problem is deeper than the teachers themselves. I see incompetent teachers as a necessary result of the values of their society, namely the society's indifference towards education.
The only danger that minors will encounter from your video will thay of having the keyboard imprinted on their foreheads when they fall asleep.
When it comes to education, my philosophy is in line with Yeats. Forgive me if I misquote, but he said something like, "Education isn't so much filling a pail as it is igniting a fire." I have applied that philosophy with my own children in all aspects of their education, particularly language.
@ jwoodswce It’s obvious you have an agenda against public education. You are describing a common rhetorical technique that is not only common to all western cultures but has been used for ages! Worst, your suggestion of suspending our judgment during a delivery by a pragmatist, resembles the practice of pragmatism itself.
The historical evolution of pragmatism in western philosophy is separate from the abuses of language; pragmatism is a counter to the totality ideology witnessed in Nazism/Communism and is really an attempt to be cautious of our definitions. People who have a problem with public education must get it right. In America we try to educate all equally, a task that is too idealistic and at the moment nearly impossible but the alternative is worse.
Privatization is not an option because the best teachers would go to the most affluent students, making the majority of our population ill equipped for a democratic society and innovative economy.
But I do agree that Academia, that is the universities and colleges of education, has not taken responsibility to improve the public ed teacher. Our inability to find the proper pedagogy stems from our bias toward the idea of an “education science,” that really does not exist.
Actually, I am smart and in editing rough drafts I have to dumb down my language for public consumption.
As you are reportedly at least bilingual, how were you instructed? I ask because American schools teach the reading and writing of foreign languages, but are very poor at teaching conversational proficiency. What were the sizes of your foreign language classes? What kind of class exercises and homework focused on conversational skill?
@jwoodswce None, english most people from my country pick up through television and internet. I have studied spanish as well and understand it somewhat well. But can't really speak it. You need to be exposed to the language every day to become fluent in it. There are a lot of stupid teachers we have to listen to, most of them are old and don't understand how to communicate properly. I think the internet is a much better system for learning anything...school is overrated. Don't you agree?
While I agree that schools currently do more harm than good, I do not object to schools per se; however, I do agree that the internet provides a platform where excellent teachers and educational methods can scale to provide both dispersed value and high degrees of individualization.
Unfortunately, public education wastes student time with ineffective homework and poisons students' minds against actual education.
@jwoodswce I am a teacher and that is a very blanket statement. Obviously there are good and bad teachers, but the problems with education are not with the teachers. What kind of power do you think we have? We have none. Every single aspect of our teaching is controlled and micromanaged by administrators and suits in a county office that don't have the first clue about real teaching. You need to go higher up than teachers if you want true change.
@tuckamania76 what is needed is the complete dismantling of the present public school system as it exists now. . Back to a peer education system where teachers are instructor friends not uptight mean spirited authoritarians disseminating orders from a moron class of curriculum idiots. How could a one room school building do a better job of educating a mix of age groups than a huge regional school system for 1 % of the money. By getting rid of 90% of present day teachers.
@jobedied Dude, get off the blame the teachers band wagon. Its easy to blame teachers and it sounds good if you're a politician, but in reality, it does nothing to fix education. Teachers have very little power. I don't use social promotion. I can fail the hell out of a student, but he or she is passed up because of the system, not because of me as a teacher. Blame the bureaucrats not the teacher. The parent can choose to allow their child to be retained, so parents have some choice.
@jobedied. Are there bad teachers? Yes, of course there are bad teachers just like there are bad plumbers, lawyers, bad actors, bad doctors, you could find it any profession. Why not concentrate your energy on those that have the real power to make change to the red tape garbage us teachers must endure with grades and discipline. Target the boards of education, administrators, the state and federal departments of education, you know the folks that actually come up with all this crap.
although i would agree with you guys most of the time on the purpose/function of language, the sobering fact is that the average teenager now only uses around 800 words per day. even though kids still communicate efficiently, the subtleties and intricacies of our language are being forfeit to negligence.
Your video is pointless for one reason: Semantics. People assign meaning to words. Whatever the culture deems that word to mean is what it means. If people can understand one another, then there is no problem. Don't be a bigot and call an entire demographic incompetent because you fail to evolve mentally with the English language.
Slang is not appliable to the official english language, each word has an official meaning, random people cannot create an official meaning, it's slang, and incorrect.
It's not evolution, it's stupid creativity, like gay and faggot. faggot = a pile of sticks gay = happy, but they were used in a slang term to insult those who are homosexual.
The inability of one individual to be able to differentiate between terrorism and piracy (the act of commandeering another's belonging IS an act of terrorism) Do not blame public school teachers for some one who was more than likely educated in a private school system inability to use words to appease you. "One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. " that point of that quote is to point out the difference in cultural beliefs, that's it.
The methods that you describe are outdated and I have not seen in practice for about twenty years now. The only way to learn anything new is through context. Building upon the real-world experiences that you already know is how you learn anything new. Jean Piaget calls this "Schema". The hope for the synonym case was for people to build upon what they already know.
The ability to rationalise and challenge conventional ideas is becoming less valued.
Teachers may deliver good standards of teaching however if this is not supported by parents and less so by society as a whole - the quality of teaching will have little effect on most pupils.
Teachers should not be blamed for the reluctance of children to be objective about what they hear and see.
Most people like easily digestible ideas without having to make efforts to de-construct and challenge those ideas.
Most people do not appreciate learning and therefore lack the tools and confidence to challenge established use of language even though the misuse of language is often used to marginalise those same people.
Coalition forces use it as a means of vilifying many who do not agree with the so call war on terror.
Many would consider the methods used by the coalition forces as terrorism but they do not have as much influence with the mass media therefore the current definition will stand.
I just learned all vocabulary by reading and context. Pretty much no other method. Although I'm probably in the small minority of those who both have very good vocabularies to begin with and don't mind losing a few points on vocabulary tests now and again.
I agree with your point of really learning vocabulary from context during reading, and consider that is probably very common.
I remember back in the day thinking that there was something wrong in the teachers instruction of vocabulary and attributed it to missing the connotation that I had picked up from conversation and reading; however, in retrospect, it was the differentia of the denotation that had been dropped.
I am a dropout from the 6th grade and practically lived in a cave until I was in my mid twenties and enrolled in an affordable university where I am currently a senior. I am far from an authority on any subject. In addition I have much to grow.
With that cleared up I will say this: is not referring to these teachers as "stupid" doing to exact thing that you claim to abhor? Is it not erasing differentiation? Is it not preaching only to like-minded people and alienating others from the start?
pt. 1: Pervasiveness in the way such matter is taught and how such matter is learned. Changing how the student learns is accomplished in how the student learns. That introduces a bit of a quandary but a very common type of cyclical dilemma found in many issues which exist within humanity.
The teacher is the student. The student is taught by the teacher. The teacher is the student.
Then the branches and the roots must both be the weed.
During all the talk of YT's algorithm to prevent featuring vids because of sex and language, I realized that there were videos that I wasn't making about education because I could not block minors from my videos.
SupEx has suggested a self-rating system. So, I thought of this preamble.
My concern, necessitating the self-rating, is that I don't want a minor to be harmed by a thuggish teacher because they acted, without consideration of consequences, upon a true idea that I have said.
Bonus: Minors tend to think too logically and over-simplify. When I look back I realize that I perceived the world as black, white, right, and wrong. They need education. Not just a collection of knowledge, but to question their way of perception. Until then such a video as this really is not for a typical minor's manner of perception and thinking.
Pt. 2: "Progressive" like all other words people have used to label themselves are part of the point you made on the term pragmatist--to erase differentiation. Labels are often used for their emotionally charged nuance. E-piracy is terrorism. It adds emotional context without a proper argument. Progressive education uses the more positive feeling of the word progressive in order to give context to their method of education without relying solely on silly things such as facts.
Pun Game Part 1: A weed pulled root and BRANCH? A weed with branches must be very, VERY well-established. ;-D
Pun Game Part 2: Way too easy. Liberals think their way is "progress," so they've hijacked the word "progressive." It's the "progressives" in education that have sent it to hell.
Bonus question: If they know how bad their public schooling is, minors may revolt à lá Bastille Day.
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go to 1:55 that's what he is smoked before making this video.
TooTooBang 1 month ago
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TooTooBang 1 month ago
Stick it up your epistemological butt.
A Teacher.
frank006able 2 months ago
@frank006able
That does not even make sense.
Are you some kind of retarded teacher? By which, I don't mean that you teach disabled students, but that you are an ADA hire.
jwoodswce 2 months ago
Are you aware that the high stakes tests now use synonyms to define words? And teachers are required to write their vocabulary questions in the same format--not using definitions. I want to scream, too. Frustrated.
Priory7 3 months ago
Warning:
This video includes me talking like i am high which i probably am. therefore if can not legally smoke marijuana please stop watching this video
whatnowalli 5 months ago
I hope to god you are NOT a teacher, b/c listening to you is WORSE than watching paint dry! Dry delivery, monotone and tiresome. You exemplify the worst in teaching, but of course you might be trying to make that point by your rant.
Dystral 5 months ago
I would say the best way of learning the subtleties in a language are by reading literature.
I educated myself with English Victorian literature - DIckens, Elliot, Austen, Collins etc.
I would also add the modern novelist Kazuo Ishiguro to this list.
It is really rather frigthening to hear that teachers come from the lower acheiving students - that really is frightening...
jagara1 7 months ago
Hm, I see your point. Sad that there are good (small group) of teachers and more bad ones....
MrMak2121 9 months ago
I feel like this problem is deeper than the teachers themselves. I see incompetent teachers as a necessary result of the values of their society, namely the society's indifference towards education.
HerdULeikMudkipz 9 months ago
Amen public school teachers are about the most frustrated sick arrogant bullies the world has ever produced.
jobedied 9 months ago
watch.. "IB kid vs regular teacher: epic war" its hilarious!
isateq 1 year ago
The only danger that minors will encounter from your video will thay of having the keyboard imprinted on their foreheads when they fall asleep.
When it comes to education, my philosophy is in line with Yeats. Forgive me if I misquote, but he said something like, "Education isn't so much filling a pail as it is igniting a fire." I have applied that philosophy with my own children in all aspects of their education, particularly language.
uknowispeaksense 1 year ago
this disclaimer the guy put at the beginning of this video made him look like a complete fool and a square
aldoreshgaramok 1 year ago
@ jwoodswce It’s obvious you have an agenda against public education. You are describing a common rhetorical technique that is not only common to all western cultures but has been used for ages! Worst, your suggestion of suspending our judgment during a delivery by a pragmatist, resembles the practice of pragmatism itself.
Mrpargmatic 1 year ago
The historical evolution of pragmatism in western philosophy is separate from the abuses of language; pragmatism is a counter to the totality ideology witnessed in Nazism/Communism and is really an attempt to be cautious of our definitions. People who have a problem with public education must get it right. In America we try to educate all equally, a task that is too idealistic and at the moment nearly impossible but the alternative is worse.
Mrpargmatic 1 year ago
Privatization is not an option because the best teachers would go to the most affluent students, making the majority of our population ill equipped for a democratic society and innovative economy.
Mrpargmatic 1 year ago
But I do agree that Academia, that is the universities and colleges of education, has not taken responsibility to improve the public ed teacher. Our inability to find the proper pedagogy stems from our bias toward the idea of an “education science,” that really does not exist.
Mrpargmatic 1 year ago
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Mrpargmatic 1 year ago
stop trying to sound so smart...
Hermoor 1 year ago
@Hermoor
Actually, I am smart and in editing rough drafts I have to dumb down my language for public consumption.
As you are reportedly at least bilingual, how were you instructed? I ask because American schools teach the reading and writing of foreign languages, but are very poor at teaching conversational proficiency. What were the sizes of your foreign language classes? What kind of class exercises and homework focused on conversational skill?
jwoodswce 1 year ago
@jwoodswce None, english most people from my country pick up through television and internet. I have studied spanish as well and understand it somewhat well. But can't really speak it. You need to be exposed to the language every day to become fluent in it. There are a lot of stupid teachers we have to listen to, most of them are old and don't understand how to communicate properly. I think the internet is a much better system for learning anything...school is overrated. Don't you agree?
Hermoor 1 year ago
@Hermoor
Thank you for information about learning foreign languages and the importance of relevance to actual living.
Re: teachers and school in general, I agree that most teachers are stupid and ignorant by selection and training.
jwoodswce 1 year ago
cont...
While I agree that schools currently do more harm than good, I do not object to schools per se; however, I do agree that the internet provides a platform where excellent teachers and educational methods can scale to provide both dispersed value and high degrees of individualization.
Unfortunately, public education wastes student time with ineffective homework and poisons students' minds against actual education.
jwoodswce 1 year ago
@jwoodswce you really are smart ;)
Hermoor 1 year ago
@jwoodswce I am a teacher and that is a very blanket statement. Obviously there are good and bad teachers, but the problems with education are not with the teachers. What kind of power do you think we have? We have none. Every single aspect of our teaching is controlled and micromanaged by administrators and suits in a county office that don't have the first clue about real teaching. You need to go higher up than teachers if you want true change.
tuckamania76 1 year ago
@tuckamania76 what is needed is the complete dismantling of the present public school system as it exists now. . Back to a peer education system where teachers are instructor friends not uptight mean spirited authoritarians disseminating orders from a moron class of curriculum idiots. How could a one room school building do a better job of educating a mix of age groups than a huge regional school system for 1 % of the money. By getting rid of 90% of present day teachers.
jobedied 9 months ago
@jobedied Dude, get off the blame the teachers band wagon. Its easy to blame teachers and it sounds good if you're a politician, but in reality, it does nothing to fix education. Teachers have very little power. I don't use social promotion. I can fail the hell out of a student, but he or she is passed up because of the system, not because of me as a teacher. Blame the bureaucrats not the teacher. The parent can choose to allow their child to be retained, so parents have some choice.
tuckamania76 9 months ago
@jobedied. Are there bad teachers? Yes, of course there are bad teachers just like there are bad plumbers, lawyers, bad actors, bad doctors, you could find it any profession. Why not concentrate your energy on those that have the real power to make change to the red tape garbage us teachers must endure with grades and discipline. Target the boards of education, administrators, the state and federal departments of education, you know the folks that actually come up with all this crap.
tuckamania76 9 months ago
although i would agree with you guys most of the time on the purpose/function of language, the sobering fact is that the average teenager now only uses around 800 words per day. even though kids still communicate efficiently, the subtleties and intricacies of our language are being forfeit to negligence.
in short, i agree with you jwood.
xbuttfacex 2 years ago
Your video is pointless for one reason: Semantics. People assign meaning to words. Whatever the culture deems that word to mean is what it means. If people can understand one another, then there is no problem. Don't be a bigot and call an entire demographic incompetent because you fail to evolve mentally with the English language.
mountme 2 years ago
@mountme
Slang is not appliable to the official english language, each word has an official meaning, random people cannot create an official meaning, it's slang, and incorrect.
It's not evolution, it's stupid creativity, like gay and faggot. faggot = a pile of sticks gay = happy, but they were used in a slang term to insult those who are homosexual.
phazon55 2 years ago
People decide which words they recognize. Sure words exist otherwise, but if no one knows what they mean then they are arbitrary at best.
mountme 2 years ago
The inability of one individual to be able to differentiate between terrorism and piracy (the act of commandeering another's belonging IS an act of terrorism) Do not blame public school teachers for some one who was more than likely educated in a private school system inability to use words to appease you. "One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. " that point of that quote is to point out the difference in cultural beliefs, that's it.
mountme 2 years ago
The methods that you describe are outdated and I have not seen in practice for about twenty years now. The only way to learn anything new is through context. Building upon the real-world experiences that you already know is how you learn anything new. Jean Piaget calls this "Schema". The hope for the synonym case was for people to build upon what they already know.
mountme 2 years ago
Most teachers I expect are not incompetent.
The ability to rationalise and challenge conventional ideas is becoming less valued.
Teachers may deliver good standards of teaching however if this is not supported by parents and less so by society as a whole - the quality of teaching will have little effect on most pupils.
Teachers should not be blamed for the reluctance of children to be objective about what they hear and see.
Gispero 2 years ago
Most people like easily digestible ideas without having to make efforts to de-construct and challenge those ideas.
Most people do not appreciate learning and therefore lack the tools and confidence to challenge established use of language even though the misuse of language is often used to marginalise those same people.
Gispero 2 years ago
Terrorism is a politically loaded word.
Coalition forces use it as a means of vilifying many who do not agree with the so call war on terror.
Many would consider the methods used by the coalition forces as terrorism but they do not have as much influence with the mass media therefore the current definition will stand.
Gispero 2 years ago
I just wanted to say that I love this title. :-D
nine9s 2 years ago
A word about your opening disclaimer: if something is truth it can be understood by all.
kritik6 3 years ago
I just learned all vocabulary by reading and context. Pretty much no other method. Although I'm probably in the small minority of those who both have very good vocabularies to begin with and don't mind losing a few points on vocabulary tests now and again.
Elithrion 3 years ago
E,
I agree with your point of really learning vocabulary from context during reading, and consider that is probably very common.
I remember back in the day thinking that there was something wrong in the teachers instruction of vocabulary and attributed it to missing the connotation that I had picked up from conversation and reading; however, in retrospect, it was the differentia of the denotation that had been dropped.
jwoodswce 3 years ago
wow that warning is stupid...
txtmsgcodes 3 years ago
I am a dropout from the 6th grade and practically lived in a cave until I was in my mid twenties and enrolled in an affordable university where I am currently a senior. I am far from an authority on any subject. In addition I have much to grow.
With that cleared up I will say this: is not referring to these teachers as "stupid" doing to exact thing that you claim to abhor? Is it not erasing differentiation? Is it not preaching only to like-minded people and alienating others from the start?
krozareq 3 years ago
K,
"...is not referring to these teachers as 'stupid' doing to exact thing that you claim to abhor?"
No.
"Is it not erasing differentiation?"
No.
"Is it not preaching only to like-minded people and alienating others from the start?"
No.
jwoodswce 3 years ago
Very solid video here.
Beethovens7th 3 years ago
Ha, I saw that lecture video, but I don't remember seeing you. I think I mostly listening to it while I polished my uniform shoes.
Beethovens7th 3 years ago
pt. 1: Pervasiveness in the way such matter is taught and how such matter is learned. Changing how the student learns is accomplished in how the student learns. That introduces a bit of a quandary but a very common type of cyclical dilemma found in many issues which exist within humanity.
The teacher is the student. The student is taught by the teacher. The teacher is the student.
Then the branches and the roots must both be the weed.
krozareq 3 years ago
HAHA I love the warning at the beginning of this.
Beethovens7th 3 years ago
B,
During all the talk of YT's algorithm to prevent featuring vids because of sex and language, I realized that there were videos that I wasn't making about education because I could not block minors from my videos.
SupEx has suggested a self-rating system. So, I thought of this preamble.
My concern, necessitating the self-rating, is that I don't want a minor to be harmed by a thuggish teacher because they acted, without consideration of consequences, upon a true idea that I have said.
jwoodswce 3 years ago
Bonus: Minors tend to think too logically and over-simplify. When I look back I realize that I perceived the world as black, white, right, and wrong. They need education. Not just a collection of knowledge, but to question their way of perception. Until then such a video as this really is not for a typical minor's manner of perception and thinking.
krozareq 3 years ago
Pt. 1:
Pt. 2: "Progressive" like all other words people have used to label themselves are part of the point you made on the term pragmatist--to erase differentiation. Labels are often used for their emotionally charged nuance. E-piracy is terrorism. It adds emotional context without a proper argument. Progressive education uses the more positive feeling of the word progressive in order to give context to their method of education without relying solely on silly things such as facts.
krozareq 3 years ago
Pun Game Part 1: A weed pulled root and BRANCH? A weed with branches must be very, VERY well-established. ;-D
Pun Game Part 2: Way too easy. Liberals think their way is "progress," so they've hijacked the word "progressive." It's the "progressives" in education that have sent it to hell.
Bonus question: If they know how bad their public schooling is, minors may revolt à lá Bastille Day.
nine9s 3 years ago