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Originally Posted by Less
Yes, it does seem expensive, but how much more use is a self sustaining classroom filled with keen Students, than the boring old same old, we went through?
I was just about old enough to remember the Russians launching 'Sputnik', how jealous I and my classmates were when it was revealed a Grammar School Teacher with his pupils had followed the whole thing, that was one hell of a Teacher, we need more of the same ilk.
These pupils must have one or two Teachers similar to that guy.
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You've really answered your own point there, it all boils down to the teachers.
We had desks and school equipment from Victorian England (or so it seemed) but we had fantastic teachers and I'm still grateful to every one of them. My primary school education was filled with all sorts of non-curricular activities which broadened my horizons and got us to think in different ways, a freedom which would almost certainly be denied to the teachers we have today.
One lesson in particular stands out in my mind when I was 10 years old. In order to teach us about the different parts of music (bass, melody, rhythm, etc.) our teacher played us
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds and we were spellbound. Part of that lesson also involved drawing scenes from the story that we had seen in our heads.
I just can't imagine that being on any curriculum today but it was lessons such as that which kept my interest in learning going.