deeDee
Sorry for the choice of words - for "
delivered" read "
taught" - like in:
"the teacher couldn't get the kids to understand some of the lesson so they brought the work home so they could have a go there then be
taught it by their parents."
Twomoose - the idea of a curriculum is that boys and girls are taught appropriate stuff in a fixed time frame so they can be examined. Sure, knowledge is infinite, and yes junior could come home from school and spend 3 or 4, or 5, or 6 hours looking at his encyclopedias (or wikipedia) to bone up on Quantum Mechanics but really there has to be a limit.
In the old days there used to be, ah, somewhere where one could study a subject in depth for 2- 3 years, usually at age 18 after being schooled in the basics. Now what was it called - ah yes, it's coming to me - University. They used to hand out Bachelor Degrees to successful students I believe
CAMom - you have it in one (yet again - you're quite a star). Teachers should teach the kids to question, and analyse, and reason and then question again..... That's difficult (more difficult than reciting the capitals of the world for the umpteenth time)
