Great post from Dot Physics summarising "teaching styles" from Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix — when I first read the book I thought Dolores Umbridge's comments were pretty horrifying but, sadly, close to what's said in HE circles about the UK's National Curriculum and what the government's obsession with targets forces schoolteachers to focus on …
Sadly we're not immune: Learn-by-rote-memory is an easy/lazy approach for the lecturer, Learn-by-suffering is an ego-trip for the sadist, and whilst Harry's apparent workshop approach is better it doesn't work for every subject/topic — sometimes knowledge/information/curriculum needs to be learnt and experienced that has no practical analogue.
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