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In about 6th grade, I went to a regular municipal school with no "special pedagogy profile" that decided to dedicate an entire year to being centered around setting up plays by Shakespeare,
one play per ~30 pupils class.
My class chose to do "Romeo and Juliet".
Another chose "The Tempest", etc.

For example we then learnt English by translating Shakespeare's original to contemporary Swedish,
had gym-classes of learning fencing from an actual fencing champion and how to dance the pavanne,
learnt history by learning about the time the plays were set in and so on.

I consider that a superbly excellent example of a method of tying everything taught into a topic which the students then had an actual interest in.

(Yes, I was chosen by the class to play Romeo. :-))

It was of course not until much later that I went through university seminars specifically on how humans have the by far longest childhood because with the extraordinarily large brain (compared to body size) we are born far from as finally developed for life as other animals, which is why the inherent drive to do what adults do as a form of play is how nature sneakily set up humans to naturally socially desire learning what they need for later life.

It is most unfortunate that much of the education system now takes the form of instead crushing this mechanism and make the phase of play-to-learn for later work instead like boring factory-work with play as the "payment" for having labored.

It's so long ago now that I don't remember the details, but...
when my sisters reached the ages of constant questions of "Why? How?", etc, I decided to answer those questions not with short fact-snippets, but to instead point out how and where they could find the answers themselves,
which for example of course lead to wanting to learn to read and thus they could already read by the time they started first grade,
but instead of e.g. boring hours of tracing the shape of the letter "A" on a paper in classroom-unison, they did it because they wanted to have the information that I had shown were in books though those letters.

Making knowledge desired play instead of an arduous chore to cheat past in order to be allowed to play.

I believe the best and natural form of education is to simply let children keep playing until they find forms of play that interest them so much they want to learn more about it themselves,
then just ensure materials (incl but not limited to books) are available at their own pace,
then sometimes just slightly nudge to make the person interested in adjacent topics too so that those will grow to include topics they previously had no interest in.
That way, any topic can be made to light the way for interest in core topics of reading, maths and language as well as methodology for finding more knowledge on their own.

I think this much better, especially long term, than pushing every person to forcibly shape them into exact-same shaped blocks for further processing and only much later add possibility of making own choices of directions (like, only really as late as at university).

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@lynnesbian Pretty sure I tried at least twice when I was young just to make sure it wasn't a fluke

I couldn't do it

when someone asks me how many times i've tried sucking my own dick

resentful of the sheer amount of effort it takes to wash all the dishes I make dirty in the course of a day

why are men

i have made the NSFW version of the mascot. only click below if you have given me $200 on paypal because thats how much this image is worth to me

man, it's so crazy to think that Earth has two moons that look exactly the same and are never in the sky at the same time

@nuttgodd that’s the money shot

@nuttgodd ropes of rage

@nuttgodd problematic? no, if anything it's extreme praxis

@nuttgodd no it's direct action