It is amazing to me, as someone that has spent his entire life in school, that almost everything I have learned, I learned outside of a classroom on my own prerogative. And now as a graduate student I have to teach and thus be implicit in a lie that wastes the time and potential of young people on worthless pedantry. The lie that a bachelors degree matters at all.
@mandlebro join the (extremely slow and seemingly going nowhere) educational revolution!
Lectures must happen at home, and homework must be done in classroom. Everyone should learn at their own pace. Nobody should progress without mastering the topic. There should be no clear delineation between teachers and students, anyone who mastered a topic and is inclined to teach should teach, and everyone should always learn.
If you can't downright rebel, then use whatever platform you have to convey the message to your students, and however little power you have to bend the rules of you class to fit this model as much as possible.
