Did our hunting and gathering ancestors offer courses in mammoth-hunt approach tactics?
Did they ask their youth to review, remember, and randomly recall Chief Ug’s 10 Step Procedure for tracking the next kill before they were allowed to pursue their own?
Were the children allowed out of the cave during the day to watch and learn from the adults, who each possessed a lifetime of valuable information?
Who made their standardized tests? And could they have marked them without paper!?
Sometimes I wonder these things as 90+ teenagers funnel in and out of my classroom each and every day, bored and confused and unsure about what they want to do when they finish school.
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