08-15-2024, 04:15 PM
(08-15-2024, 03:10 PM)ArMaP Wrote: It's a "short", they have a different link.
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That problem also happens in Portugal, but not is not as marked as that.
The high school teaching method does not prepare the students to the teaching methods used in Universities. Many years ago we had a special intermediate course to prepare for university those that had finished high school. When I was in my last year in high school there was an extra year that worked as kind of preparation for university, as the teaching method was slightly different from the previous high school years.
I don't know how things are now, this was more than 40 years ago.
Last thing first, I should have mentioned that those experiences were also generations ago... I am aware that the zeitgeist is different now... and I really am too distantly removed from that world to know. I can only pray that it could have been somehow improved... though I am not certain how to measure that possibility.
My high school did not prepare me - but there is a proviso - I did well enough in high school outside the US education system, that I applied to 'tough' schools in the States... a mistake on my part. It is possible that the system actually did prepare me... for the university experience in that place and... (by now, I am used to admitting this,)... I lack experience to "know" if that was so.
I think it is difficult to expect the high school systems to be responsible for "educational culture" changes outside their control. Perhaps if the post-high school form of life were more exposed (not theatrically as in the current social marketing,) more kids would realize that University was always meant to be "hard focused-work"... but instead many universities 'crafted' educational approaches that accommodated other values outside of pedagogy... it's a quandary for the idealist.
