2026-10-06 12:18 UTC
Something I wish they’d explained better at school is that skills are transferable and often you’re learning how to learn. I see so many adults complain about how useless learning recorder in school music class was. The teachers weren’t into bad covers of hot cross buns, they were trying to teach musicality, sheet music reading, rhythm and handling an instrument that could be applied to other things in future using the cheapest, easiest to play, hardest to break instrument possible. I feel like the inability to see how learning things might be beneficial in indirect ways haunts a lot of people into adulthood to their detriment
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@geonz@mathstodon.xyz 2026-10-06 12:26
@joannaholman@aus.social .... especially learning music.
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@Rycaut@mastodon.social 2026-10-06 16:29
@joannaholman@aus.social I think the key failure is in explaining to parents (not just to kids who might not listen) that most things in a well run school aren’t just about the obvious - ie homework really isn’t (or shouldn’t) be just about the answers to problems - it really should be about: The process to solve each problem Which steps in the process the kid is getting stuck on or making mistakes The practice of planning time management to get homework done & turned in Reading instructions Etc.