Sylvia Martinez said: Of course not all “olden days” teachers were drilling students. . . . When people think about the past, of course we all have had different experiences. Talking about how school used to be is meaningless; it’s too dependent on your personal experience. Unfortunately, we hear this kind of language all the time, whether it’s to point at the “bad old days” or the “good old days” Neither of them exist in reality. 21st century skills . . . is a solution to a problem that may not exist. It may just be a reflection of our vast, yet fundamentally faulty collective memory of things that never were. To which I say: [see also the reports cited at The hits just keep on coming] The chief source of the “problem of discipline” in schools is that … a premium is put on physical quietude; on silence, on rigid uniformity...
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