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Originally Posted by blazey
Maybe they should teach philosophy to them. Applied ethics is mentally stimulating and you can cover a vast ground of topics which will help build life perspectives and opinions. Obviously it wouldn't be heavily based around theories and the complexities of philosophy, but to tie in the ideas of thinking objectively and subjectively and how to present an argument with the reasoning behind it is always a good skill to have an can be transferred in many academic subjects at school and in situations beyond that.
I think the problem is that school aren't thinking hard enough about how to fit in these lessons into traditional subjects. At school I had a lesson with my form tutor about things like ethnic minorities and respect and so on. It wasn't very often and I can't remember what they called the lesson now, but it was a good one that tied in well with the subject he happened to teach, which was geography.
I think older teachers manage much better than the younger ones to bring up these issues in the context of their normal teaching, which is why I personally think that teachers should have more life experience before being able to qualify as teachers. Young teachers can be just as good at teaching what they have to, but they often still have a lot to learn themselves about life before preaching to others.
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Mancie makes more sense than you
