In a round about way yes. Dissecting the Latin at ten? Most in my school were just learning the Latin roots. (As I think about it, I was as learning them at nine.) But probably not. But I knew how to use a dictionary. So yes. I could figure it out. When I was younger, I asked questions and found answers. And yes. At ten I had the intelligence enough to be a student.
I have put five years of my past into teaching. As a teacher I will never understand why teachers get so touchy about students not doing what they are capable of.
Also, when we now live in a world where many can say “hey google, what does dissimulation mean?”
No! I have no tolerance for people who have perpetual ignorance as their motto.
No need to type it in a search engine, no technical expertise required to know the order of the alphabet to use a sophisticated antiquated dictionary, just speak and let the internet do your work. There is no excuse for today’s generation not to be able to figure out the meaning of a word.
Parents, pastors, school teachers, Sunday school teachers, other adults in church, deacons, internet, books, etc… there is almost no end to the places a child can turn for help.
Or they could just keep narrowing their vocabulary.
The children of the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages, had a far more extensive vocabulary than adults do today.
We have more opportunities and less resolve.
I hope this helps you understand why some Christians have an issue with modern education.
I don’t know you really or any of your students to be able to evaluate your quality of teaching. I don’t really want to do that anyway. I’m just really tired of hearing people say that education is to difficult to teach.
Instead of teaching information to students, teachers should be teaching students how to get information.
I had terrible teachers who quite literally taught my class from the tests so that we would all get good grades. The only place that some of us learned to get information from was from the teacher who more or less did the cheating for the students and gave them the answers straight from the tests.
There are a lot more things involved in teaching than what is generally thought of. I know. I’ve dealt with the “Christian” parents who want A+ children without making them do the work.
If you want to take my comments personally, I am not there to stop you. I just want teachers to stop deciding what is too difficult for students to understand before they give it to them.
We are able to digest meat by reason of use. You don’t get the experience of use by eating vegan burgers. You don’t get the experience of use by drinking milk. It’s necessary to eat the meat. The first week or more of those meals will seem useless. The same goes for information. It seems to go in one ear and out the other. But some of it will stick. Eventually, enough will stick to build on and they can begin to grow. But it requires feeding. And the, “they can’t handle big words” attitude is the reason why they can’t handle big words. They are never given the opportunity to use them.
