Kids today...
I suspect home, peer group, and private relaxation time potentially contribute far more than school does to what kids know or believe.
That's true. I remember being frustrated at school because we never learned about the things I was interested in (capital cities, wars, dinosaurs and space). Instead, it was all crop rotation, the precipitation cycle and the industrial revolution.
I picked up my general knowledge from reading the paper, from the books we had lying around the house, and from the hobbies and obsessions I had.
Funnily enough, last night my daughter asked the missus what kind of computer she had when she was little. I'm not sure if she believed us when we told her that they weren't invented. Then she started asking us if we had books, chocolate, bikes, trousers and a whole list of other random stuff.
She's only four, though. I'll start worrying if she still does it in ten years' time.
I suspect home, peer group, and private relaxation time potentially contribute far more than school does to what kids know or believe.
That's true. I remember being frustrated at school because we never learned about the things I was interested in (capital cities, wars, dinosaurs and space). Instead, it was all crop rotation, the precipitation cycle and the industrial revolution.
I picked up my general knowledge from reading the paper, from the books we had lying around the house, and from the hobbies and obsessions I had.
Funnily enough, last night my daughter asked the missus what kind of computer she had when she was little. I'm not sure if she believed us when we told her that they weren't invented. Then she started asking us if we had books, chocolate, bikes, trousers and a whole list of other random stuff.
She's only four, though. I'll start worrying if she still does it in ten years' time.
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