Comments on: Do we still need to be hysterical about tutoring? http://www.thetutorblog.com/2010/01/do-we-still-need-to-be-hysterical-about-tutoring/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:31:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Tutor Guy http://www.thetutorblog.com/2010/01/do-we-still-need-to-be-hysterical-about-tutoring/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Tutor Guy Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:55:06 +0000 http://www.thetutorblog.com/?p=248#comment-24 Unfortunately a bigger goal of the factory type of mass education and schooling that occurs today has little to do with increasing the education of the student and more with socialization hence the use of residential schools as a means to assimilate the indigenous in Canada’s aboriginal people. The primary goal was cultural genocide and not higher education. I myself have worked in the public school system in Canada and can testify to the inefficiency of our education system and the corruption that exists at the expense of the tax payer. I have found that tutoring is a superior method of education and have discovered that many children deemed learning disabled, ADHD, have behavior problems can learn effectively this way. I hope that one day there is a switch from our traditional education system to something more efficient that doesn’t involve the use of multimillion dollar facilities that will not be efficiently run unless privatized. I know from experience that a child can learn at an accelerated rate when tutored. I often meet with students who have been mainstreamed through the education system and have literally missed grade levels in learning. I believe our public education system was once useful and perhaps essential but feel that by today’s standards is archaic at best. As technology and society changes so must our education system. I believe with the use of the internet there is becoming a lesser need to travel to a local school to experience learning. I think a more proper and directed education could occur in the home through tutoring services which is more economic and results driven. I also believe the process of socialization should be left to the parents and not the schools. Not to mention the issues today with bullying, drug influence, and the learning of other bad behaviors. I hope that in time society will view the school as a thing of the past and evolve a better method of education that involves the parents to a greater extent. Unfortunately a bigger goal of the factory type of mass education and schooling that occurs today has little to do with increasing the education of the student and more with socialization hence the use of residential schools as a means to assimilate the indigenous in Canada’s aboriginal people. The primary goal was cultural genocide and not higher education. I myself have worked in the public school system in Canada and can testify to the inefficiency of our education system and the corruption that exists at the expense of the tax payer. I have found that tutoring is a superior method of education and have discovered that many children deemed learning disabled, ADHD, have behavior problems can learn effectively this way. I hope that one day there is a switch from our traditional education system to something more efficient that doesn’t involve the use of multimillion dollar facilities that will not be efficiently run unless privatized. I know from experience that a child can learn at an accelerated rate when tutored. I often meet with students who have been mainstreamed through the education system and have literally missed grade levels in learning. I believe our public education system was once useful and perhaps essential but feel that by today’s standards is archaic at best. As technology and society changes so must our education system. I believe with the use of the internet there is becoming a lesser need to travel to a local school to experience learning. I think a more proper and directed education could occur in the home through tutoring services which is more economic and results driven. I also believe the process of socialization should be left to the parents and not the schools. Not to mention the issues today with bullying, drug influence, and the learning of other bad behaviors. I hope that in time society will view the school as a thing of the past and evolve a better method of education that involves the parents to a greater extent.

]]> By: Atul Rana http://www.thetutorblog.com/2010/01/do-we-still-need-to-be-hysterical-about-tutoring/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Atul Rana Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:43:11 +0000 http://www.thetutorblog.com/?p=248#comment-18 I am surprised still at how people are surprised at tutoring being a new and upcoming form of teaching. It is the oldest, most original and for hundreds of years the only form of teaching. Before schools came into existence (very recently in the context of humanity) everyone learnt things from their parents, friends or other specialists. Obviously if you were richer you could hire your own private tutor to teach you reading, writing, horse riding, sword fighting and what have you not... Of course the good things about factory type mass education and schooling is that you can educate people in higher numbers than ever before and literacy is only getting better and better. We are living in the best literacy period of all time...and tutoring is the perfect aid to that! I am surprised still at how people are surprised at tutoring being a new and upcoming form of teaching. It is the oldest, most original and for hundreds of years the only form of teaching. Before schools came into existence (very recently in the context of humanity) everyone learnt things from their parents, friends or other specialists. Obviously if you were richer you could hire your own private tutor to teach you reading, writing, horse riding, sword fighting and what have you not…

Of course the good things about factory type mass education and schooling is that you can educate people in higher numbers than ever before and literacy is only getting better and better. We are living in the best literacy period of all time…and tutoring is the perfect aid to that!

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