“What will people in the future think when they look back at what people now deem educational or not educational? People in the past also felt certain they were right in their views about what constitutes a proper education.”
– Sarah Fitz-Claridge
In this 1859 book, there is huge concern about a girl loving chemistry instead of getting a proper education (i.e., learning to sing and play a musical instrument).
“How absurd! [W]hat good can it do her? … [W]hat becomes of her education?”
Learning chemistry instead of music was deemed to be destroying the child’s future prospects, including that of marriage.
What will people in the future think when they look back at what people now deem educational or not educational? People in the past also felt certain they were right in their views about what constitutes a proper education.
BTW, notice, also, that going to school was not a thing then. That the education being provided was outside the school system was not even mentioned, let alone the critic’s concern. Will school still be a thing a hundred years from now? How will the current obsession with school-based education look to people in the future?
See also:
- What does education taking children seriously look like?
- Instruction does not address the immediate moment-by-moment concerns and questions of the learner
- Never made to write essays?
Sarah Fitz-Claridge, 2024, ‘How will current theories of education look in the future?’, https://takingchildrenseriously.com/how-will-current-theories-of-education-look-in-the-future