{"id":34897,"date":"2016-05-25T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34897"},"modified":"2016-05-23T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T02:29:57","slug":"teaching-girls-versus-teaching-boys-in-the-modern-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/teaching-girls-versus-teaching-boys-in-the-modern-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching girls versus teaching boys in the modern school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hoyt<\/a> explains why your school-age sons may not be getting as much (if anything) from their education compared to your daughters:<\/p>\n

… most of [my sons’] generation PARTICULARLY THE GIRLS are coddled and protected within an inch of their lives and treated as prodigies. And don\u2019t argue with me on the girl thing. If you don\u2019t have kids in school \u2014 particularly sons \u2014 you don\u2019t know how skewed it is. Most of the work is geared to \u201ca woman\u2019s way of learning\u201d, things are demanded at appropriate ages FOR GIRLS who develop faster than boys (for instance to deliver work on time with no demands. Teen boys can\u2019t do that till about 16, but it\u2019s demanded at 11. If your male middle schooler is floundering, you know why. Add to that that most teachers are women, and women of a certain generation, who feel they are \u201csticking it to the patriarchy\u201d by \u201cencouraging\u201d girls more and what you have is a recipe for disaster, particularly for girls.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s right now admit men and women are different, with different capacities. If I ever persuade my brain-researcher friend to give you a post on how hormones influence brain development, we\u2019ll have a biological base to build on. But still, statistically across all the various cultures of the world, men and women are different in raw capabilities. Men prefer spacial and mathematical reasoning (well, abstract, where mathematical is iffy) and enjoy danger more. Women are linguistically inclined and able to multitask or work in an \u201cInterrupted environment\u201d better.<\/p>\n

Now these are all statistical capabilities, which applied to real life mean very little, and applied to real humans are not predictive. I mean, you\u2019d expect to see more male engineers and more female linguists \u2014 and you do \u2014 but it means nothing as to whether your own very special male or female apple blossom should be one or the other.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll add here that I don\u2019t understand the NEED of the cognoscenti<\/em> in our society to fight natural inclination and make male nurses and female engineers. It seems to me they\u2019re working out some bur under their own psychological saddle, so to speak, by playing with the lives of others.<\/p>\n

On the other hand if women want to be engineers and are willing to work hard enough they should stand the same chance as any man. And yet, we have classes that start out with equal numbers of male and female, in engineering, but by the end it is, as younger son puts it \u201ca sausage fest\u201d most women having deserted to Business or Art or Art of Business or Business of Art or whatever.<\/p>\n

A lot of these were probably never that interested, and were pushed by parents\/teachers. But those that were were handicapped.<\/p>\n

Any number of boys quits too. Fewer than the girls, because they weren\u2019t as handicapped.<\/p>\n

These kids are handicapped by making their lives too easy. If the school goes out of their way to value \u201ca woman\u2019s way of learning\u201d a woman will never learn to stretch her wings. If even boys are taught \u201cyou\u2019re special and unique\u201d and every thing they toss out with little thought is praised, they don\u2019t learn what their blind spots are or to compensate for them.<\/p>\n

What this means is that sooner or later they\u2019ll come up against things they\u2019re bad at \u2014 the best \u201crounded\u201d person has things they suck at \u2014 and they don\u2019t know what reserves they have, nor how to fill in the holes in natural talent with work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hoyt explains why your school-age sons may not be getting as much (if anything) from their education compared to your daughters: … most of [my sons’] generation PARTICULARLY THE GIRLS are coddled and protected within an inch of their lives and treated as prodigies. And don\u2019t argue with me on the girl thing. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,13],"tags":[374,43],"class_list":["post-34897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-usa","tag-children","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-94R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34898,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34897\/revisions\/34898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}