Re: One View On The State Of Education

morrisjcroy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
True, but it official policy back then.

I had no idea until a few years ago that expecting students to work for
their rewards was considered a form of abuse and that being addressed
properly seen as intimidating and detracts from their ability to learn.

From going through many old textbooks from a century ago or so, I got
the impression the first "wave" of watering/dumbing down happened
around the time when kindergarten -> grade 7/8 education became
mandatory in America. Back then before schooling was mandatory, the
emphasis in grade school was teaching kids how to proficiently read
and write stuff in the context classical literature.

Mathematics seems to have been watered down somewhat later, when the
legal dropout age was raised to age 15 or 16. Before the 20th
century, the geometry textbook of choice in many places was an english
translation of Euclid's original geometry books.

I heard that it was used in some English schools well into the 1930s.


On a different note, I went to a book fair earlier today and came
across Kreith's heat transfer book. (It had around 550 pages, and a
copyright date of 1958. Most likely it's the first edition). It
reads a lot more compactly and somewhat better than the more recent
heat transfer textbooks like Incropera. Which edition did you have?


Third, from the mid '70s.
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