Oh, you made me laugh with this line: "A farm kid in Idaho does not need the same education as a music dork in Illinois."
The irony . . . I have the single most talented and hardest working student of my thirty years of teaching right now. He's brilliant. He is a farm kid in rural Idaho who has nothing to do except milk cows and practice cello, and his mother, thank God, home schools so he doesn't spend four hours a day on a school bus. So they drive ninety minutes each way to get to me for lessons each week. Tomorrow I'll see what music he's written, go over his current etudes and competition pieces, and advise him on any questions he has with his little flock of beginning students back in the far end of Nowhere. (I only live in the middle of Nowhere, after all!)
You might be interested in reading The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto. He lays out the Prussian model and influences thereof on the American Public Schools. I do not doubt that there is Eastern influence more recently, but I wonder if the Eastern schools are also Prussian influenced, or if Prussia was Eastern influenced.
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Date: 2024-12-17 07:13 am (UTC)The irony . . . I have the single most talented and hardest working student of my thirty years of teaching right now. He's brilliant. He is a farm kid in rural Idaho who has nothing to do except milk cows and practice cello, and his mother, thank God, home schools so he doesn't spend four hours a day on a school bus. So they drive ninety minutes each way to get to me for lessons each week. Tomorrow I'll see what music he's written, go over his current etudes and competition pieces, and advise him on any questions he has with his little flock of beginning students back in the far end of Nowhere. (I only live in the middle of Nowhere, after all!)
You might be interested in reading The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto. He lays out the Prussian model and influences thereof on the American Public Schools. I do not doubt that there is Eastern influence more recently, but I wonder if the Eastern schools are also Prussian influenced, or if Prussia was Eastern influenced.
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