Schools only provide basic guidelines for your future
By clorissa123
@clorissa123 (4926)
United States
April 18, 2009 10:29pm CST
Our parents and teachers always told us how important we have to attend to schools. It is a truth, and school provides us the basic guidelines for our future. What we learn from the textbook might not provide the exact answer for what we encountered in reality, but it will be a guideline, a mapbook. We have to realized the ultimate knowledge from our daily experience. For instance, a foreign language. What we learn from the textbook is the guideline how to do the pronunciation, and the general meaning of a particular vocabulary. What we learn from the reality is that they might have slang, and different meaning spoken from the locals.
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@zoey7879 (3092)
• Quincy, Illinois
19 Apr 09
I agree somewhat, especially when it comes to history/current events. All that we know of the past centuries are written encounters of what has happened and word of mouth stories passed along from one person to another. Sometimes there are physical object to collaborate this, and then it can begin to be investigated for the truth.
Most textbooks are used in schools for 2-5 year stints at a time, and MUCH history can change in as little as a minute!
As for foreign languages, learning Spanish and French are great examples of problematics. There's Mexican Spanish (and several dialects of it!) and there's a difference between the Spanish spoken in Spain and Bolivia. The same can be said of Canadian French. With Brit English, Australia English and American English the biggest differences are the spellings, slang, and some meaning interpretations of the words. In America, a biscuit is usually the crusted doughy, fluffy side item.. while in England a biscuit is what Americans call a cookie.
Teaching and learning will never be 100% exact...
