I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.
Most classroom practice is astrology.
Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.
We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.
Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.
Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.
What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.
Some definitions:
Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.
Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.
Things we (scholars) DO know:
-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.
-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).
-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.
Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.
Maintaining the status quo? Nope.
Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.
If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.
They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.
And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.
For what?
It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.
WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.
We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.
The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?
Education is all about capitalism.
"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.
THAT is why modern education is a failure.
Its basic premise is monstrous.
"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"
Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.
So since the oracle games aren’t well discussed among the LU fandom and when I mentioned this in the Linked Universe Discord it caused absolute chaos so here it something for you all to think about pertaining to Legend’s rings.
Firstly a good portion of rings in the oracle games can be received by growing them on Gasha trees, yes rings grow on trees in Labrynna and Holodrum. You can also get heart pieces, rupees, potions, or fairies from the tree. But imagine someone asking Legend how/where he got some of his rings and he has to explain that they literally grew on trees. Since idea of Legend trying to grow Gasha trees in Hyrule.
The second idea comes from some of the rings Legend does own. You got useful things like the swimmer ring(increases swim speed) or the heart rings(which recover lost hearts over time). But then there’s the transformation rings: you have the octo ring, moblin ring, and the like like ring which are self explanatory being able to turn legend into a monster. But then there’s the Subrosian Ring which turns into a subrosian and, finally, the First Gen Ring(which has the description “become something?”) and you’ll never guess what it does... it turns you into the appearance of Link from the original Legend of Zelda. So in context of LU it would turn Legend into Hyrule. So imagine Legend trying out the ring in the Labrynna/Holodrum and being like “it just turns me into a random guy????” Then he meets Hyrule and internally he’s like “Random guy?!!” Also there’s the Fist Ring which allows you to punch if you don’t have items equipped, which is minorly hilarious conceptually. Legend can’t punch people unless he equips a certain ring.
“The other day she said to me ‘sometimes I just feel like a gas station’ and I laughed at the statement before she explained ‘people stop by to get what they need, whether it’s sex, laughter, or someone to suffocate the loneliness, until they’re full again and the last thing you ever see is them driving away’ and now I’m wondering if a gas station is all I’ll ever be”
Megatron: I’m so glad we don’t have to be inside our boxes.
Tiny Megs: I know
Megatron: you know it’s nice to be in a mostly Decepticon collection. I heard the stories from some of the guys that came from the used toy shop.
Tiny Starscream: Oh yes I heard about the actual fighting.
Primus: That’s nothing I had some guys actually worshiping me.
Energon Starscream: at least you guys didn’t come from the flea market. The horror. I lived with the MLPs for three years… You have no idea what that does to a bot.
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