Learning By Doing

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. --MrAristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher.

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Gee, at my kids' high school they've discarded all that "doing" stuff and now "learn" things by opining about them.

Actual test question from the new History Test (no, really, you can't make this stuff up):

• Who benefited from the Revolutionary War?
  • a) The upper classes
  • b) The lower classes

The Computer Science/Cisco Networking teacher left the school after being told to dramatically reduce the hands-on methods used in his classes.

Anybody know where one can get independent (private) funding for a learning-by-getting-dirty school? I know a teaching team that would happily start one.

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See: LearningByTryingSolutions DoOrDoNot PotteryChallenge

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