Ron Paul Curriculum: Age Grading Is A Bad Idea

[romacox]

Age-grading is a bad idea. It was imported from Prussia in 1848. It was first implemented in Boston, in the Quincy Grammar School. It was a cost-cutting device. It was also imposed to let teachers reduce discipline problems.

The rural "little red schoolhouse" did not adopt this model. There, students of all ages were in one room. A teacher taught them. The older students who understood the material helped teach the younger ones who were having trouble. (This is the RPC model: student tutorial forums.)

Read more about how the change was implemented for control of curriculum, teachers, and students. http://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/public/319.cfm

 

[osan]

Age-grading is a bad idea. It was imported from Prussia in 1848. It was first implemented in Boston, in the Quincy Grammar School. It was a cost-cutting device. It was also imposed to let teachers reduce discipline problems.

The rural "little red schoolhouse" did not adopt this model. There, students of all ages were in one room. A teacher taught them. The older students who understood the material helped teach the younger ones who were having trouble. (This is the RPC model: student tutorial forums.)

Read more about how the change was implemented for control of curriculum, teachers, and students. http://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/public/319.cfm

This is exactly so. One-room schools had kids of all ages. The elder students helped teach the younger, thus relieving the burden on the teacher and greatly reinforcing the learning of the student.

Montessori schools address this in a partially successful manner by grouping three years to a class. It is still inferior, but better.

That we got this drech from the asshole Prussians should surprise nobody. My apologies to all the other assholes of the world.