[HPforGrownups] Re: You are in charge of Hogwarts

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 56666

Bill wrote:
> Actually, I thought that they were there to
> learn what they need to 
> know as an adult.  All of the other subjects
> would be available as 
> electives, but is learning how to harvest
> Venemous Tentacula really 
> more important than learning how to balance a
> chequebook?  Is knowing 
> how to transfigure a hedgehog into a pincushion
> more important than 
> knowing how to use the Internet?  


Me:

Well, yes it is more important to learn how to
transfigure a hedgehog into a pinchusion than
knowing how to use the internet and learning how
to harvest Venemous Tentacula is really more
important than learning how to balance a
checkbook if those are things you'll actually use
in your daily life and the others aren't.

Why would wizards need to learn how to balance a
checkbook when they don't use checks?  Why learn
how to use the internet when they don't use
computers?  Heck, forget about the WW, why teach
someone in the Netherlands how to balance a
checkbook when they don't use checks.  It took me
a year of living here before I could comprehend
that I didn't need the same types of banking
skills I did in the US and to learn the new ones
I did need (yes, I was slow but I offer the
excuse that I was pregnant and learning a new
language at the time  LOL).

You're right, the purpose is to teach what
students need to learn to live as an adult but it
must take into account what they will need in
their world rather than what we need in our
world.

Oh, and on the 5 classes per week of PE, I submit
that the students get plenty of physical exercise
just by carrying all those books and all the
stair climbing they have to do -  especially
those in Gryffindor.  LOL

Lynn

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