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You can't learn without systematic instruction & rigid structure

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Frank Smith writes extensively about the change from more community-based practices to rigid, institutional structures in education (especially primary education). How are rigid structures, and all that they imply (state-mandated requirements, standardized tests) inadequate methods for instruction?

1. standardized ways of thinking vs. individual learners' understanding

2. standardized structure vs. flexible mentorship

3. punitive error correction vs. critical encouragement

4. teachers as autocrats vs. teachers as guides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning http://www.audiblox2000.com/teaching-myth.htm Smith