Yup! It’s time to get ready for school, even if it’s bad news
for my teenage son also on my wallet. Just like every year, we start with
a lot of new things. No exception this year.
The Hungarian education system is the same as every other
ex-communism countries. A well-known Prussian education system that has been
slowly changing to western style system. Well, we are not quite there
yet, but as I see my son’s education at least it looks promising – foreign
languages for instance, German and English are the most commonly
thought, but you can find schools which are also teaching French and
Spanish. Today our schools require at least one foreign language otherwise you
have no chance to get to a collage. In my days we were forced to learn Russian
and guess what? It's also becoming trendy again.
Talking about new and trendy - IT became essential, a
subject of its own at schools.
But what school can teach a 13 years old boy anything they don’t
already know? - Because he’s already an extensive computer user - as I’m
thinking about the enormous amount of time he spends on Facebook or Minecraft,
etc it's amazing- I find whenever I try to help him out on the computer it
turns out I need the help and not him. So the more he uses it the better expert
he becomes... I guess. Does the skills he is learning require some basic
programming skills? or it’s simply an ongoing self-development?
Is it possible that he has learned computer languages already?
Does the computer have its own language in the first place? Some guys
think computers do have languages, because if you don’t give the
right command it won’t understand you. And you must communicate with it, right?
does that meet the foundation of a language? Wikipedia definition of a language
would agree!
Of course there are two sides of the coins. If schools want to
give some space and time for the increasing IT subjects something has to be
reduced, as well. This case Hungarian grammar becomes the loser.
I just wonder how my boy is going to write an official letter.
Abbreviations and emoticons :) ?
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