KHAN Academy: The future of education?

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79. Your rant presumes kids are naturally prone to misbehave or to become distracted.

And I maintain that even with a small class of 15 students LECTURES ARE BORING (with 99% of teachers).

Actually, kids are taught in schools to be unteachable, it's a natural resistance to schools' fetish for conformity.

Far too often, teachers think that because they said it, it's been taught, if it was missed then it was the students' fault for not listening.

In reality, it's teachers' fault for thinking that the old way works.

Moreover, there's nothing wrong with students helping students.

Teachers are NOT the bearers of all knowledge, far from it.

Knowledge is changing faster than teachers can keep up with it, and peer students are more likely to be able to explain concepts in a comprehensible fashion than most teachers.

We do it, it works, I'm right on this. I actually have teachers and students and programs and most of the people blathering on against this simply don't.

Just trying to help, but people don't want to listen.

That's ok, I just pity the students who have to suffer under their ignorance.