Asia Minor does not understand what knowledge is at all, and this may be due to the fact that she has never used it and in fact does not have it.
When an interview with Joanna Mucha, currently Polska 2050, appears on the website dziennikcza.pl, you know it’s going to be fun. Not because of the sense of humor of the singer of the hit ‘Don’t coup When I Leave’, but because this time she acted as an educational expert. As an expert on sports, health care and economics, Ms. Joanna also brings laughs, but her “expert” statements about teaching could indicate that someone might see her as a candidate for Minister of Education. And then it’s no longer fun.
The arguments about education seem as if six-year-old Asia imagined herself being a teacher, or perhaps even a school principal. And it is immediately harsh: ‘Teaching encyclopedic knowledge is not necessary. You can check everything in encyclopedias on a smartphone in five seconds.” At the same time you can also check what form the equations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity have. And I still have no idea what these equations describe, what general relativity is (even reading the relevant comments and explanations).
Little Asia imagines that knowledge is, for example, information about the height above sea level of Mount Kościuszko (Australia’s highest peak). This is not knowledge, but trivial information. Knowledge is the understanding of phenomena, processes, laws or regularities. It cannot be mastered without a basic set of data, tools and methods to organize, process and generalize it, leading to understanding. You can find anything and yet you have no idea what it is for, how to use it or what it means, even in a practical sense.
Asia Minor does not understand what knowledge is at all, and this may be due to the fact that she has never used it and in fact does not have it. Knowledge is not a pile of information that resembles a typical junkyard, but a well-organized system. It cannot do without input data or tools. Students cannot stop finding something in an internet search engine because it leaves them ignorant or even illiterate. First you need to collect something to turn it into knowledge.
Asia Minor may imagine that knowledge is the ability to use a search engine, but probably – if, for example, an imaging system were used – an average baboon, and even more so a chimpanzee, could do this. Knowledge is not enlightenment, because enlightenment must have some basis. It’s impossible when your mind is empty. And without knowledge, a person is reduced to physiology or the simplest forms of communication – purely functional, that is, describing activities. It’s like mixing water with water to make tea and being surprised that nothing happens.
Ms. Joanna believes that instead of history and the present, the topic of knowledge about man should be introduced because it is “a topic that would talk about man holistically. We see it as preventing psychological and mental problems.” Ms Joanna claims that “we are not training enough psychologists to meet the needs. If we don’t train their army within 10 years, we won’t be able to deal with the problems.”
Little Asia succumbs to the dominant contemporary tendency to seek solutions to problems in some form of shamanism. However, modern shamans should have a psychology degree. Parents have no time for their own children, they often don’t know what they are doing, who they are interacting with, who influences them. They only see that the children have some problems. So they often wash their hands of parental duties because there is an institution of a shaman (psychologist) who takes care of everything for them. In this way, they objectify the problem and dismiss guilt for negligence.
First, there is an excuse: the problems are objective and the parents do not have the right competencies. Shamans (psychologists) have such competencies and they will arrange everything for the parents. This is complete nonsense. You can convince children of something for a short time (as long as they are interested in it), make them a doll that reflects the image that the shaman (psychologist) has created, but then reality emerges, that is, the factors that previously led to problems (crisis). And after a while you have to go to the shaman again, he will make another image, this one will wear out again and you can do this until the end of the world. And the parents and the school believe that they are doing everything that is necessary and possible. So everyone is fooling themselves, including Asia Minor.
Ms. Joanna views school as a kind of behavioral and psychological workshop or even psychodrama. He says, “First, children must be taught to understand emotions, relationships, self-observation, and the ability to respond to different situations.” Meanwhile, at a modern Polish school, “children sit in class with their backs to each other. This influences the creation of a worldview among young citizens: hierarchical, non-cooperative, competitive, and shows you, citizen, that we can do everything with you, you are completely dependent on us.
Little Asia has heard or read nonsense about body language, so she thinks that if children sit differently during lessons, their view of the world will immediately change, and even everything they have in front of them at home or in their immediate environment over the years taken. Characteristic is that this is not a matter of knowledge acquisition, but only a form of social engineering. We don’t compete, we don’t try to be the best, we just have a good time in good company.
The way Asia Minor imagines school shows that all those parents in different countries send their children to schools where there is great competition, where there is a race for position, where the best results are achieved, where there is discipline and high expectations , and therefore students should have the greatest opportunities in life, they are kind of outliers. So what if these children later hold a high position in society, run businesses, have achievements in science or culture and therefore have a high material status? School should be fun and cool, and no one should sit back to back.
For school to be fun and enjoyable, “we have to take a lot of burdens off the kids. They have five tests a week, are constantly asked questions and are overloaded with knowledge. Little Asia does not understand that children are not overloaded with knowledge because they have too little of it. Therefore, it is more difficult for them to deepen and expand their knowledge. And if there are no forms of control, they know even less. Little Asia believes that “school should not be about what a child cannot do, but about what he or she is good at.” And what good is it if it is protected from knowledge? Asia Minor probably imagines that all children will be artists, or that by traveling the world they will finally find what they want to do. No effort, no stress. This alone results in zero effects.
The lack of understanding of the essence of school and education results in the following melodramatic confessions of Asia Minor: “I know a girl who is incredibly talented artistically. She wanted to apply to the Łódź Film School. If it weren’t for her math exam, she would have been admitted. She had already approached her four times. He can’t make it even though he tries very hard and studies a lot. Do we really want to block the way for such talented children? Skilled in what? What are these incredible talents and how did little Asia test them when she was disgusted by the tests?What kind of achievement is not being able to learn basic math?
In fact, everything should be different at school, for example when it comes to avoiding gym lessons. Children avoid this because “we don’t have the right methodology for PE teachers.” If the methodology is in place, children will want to have 10 PE lessons per week. Or how to install ping-pong tables in schools. Ms Joanna wanted to “introduce a project with rope parks hanging just above the floor, covered with mattresses. “Children could climb and play in a safe way during PE lessons.” She didn’t make it on time. Nothing about parents who give in to their children and trick their children into not being able to play sports. That if there is no mental effort, physical effort is pointless. Why bother at all? School should be light, easy and to be pleasant. This is the only recipe for mass production of idiots and idiots. And wimps.
Both Ms. Joanna and Little Asia know that “PiS, with Przemysław Czarnek at its head, leaves behind a school that is oppressive – towards children and teachers, that does not involve parents in the educational process, a school that is not adapted to the contemporary situation.” time. One that would have worked well 50 years ago. Blind to the challenges of the future.”
Ms. Joanna’s school, or rather Asia’s, will be so sensitive to the challenges of the future that she will simply not notice them. There will be no requirements, checks or interruptions, so children feel like they are in an amusement park. And outside Poland there will be that nasty school of the past, where there is competition, a race for knowledge, where it is not pleasant at all, because there is discipline and countless hardships. And our schools will leave behind people who can only scribble eight stars, and there will be people who will be able to make flights to other planets and invent things that the native users of schools will admire as amusement parks, without having any idea how something can be done. think of one.
Source: wPolityce