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i was kinda thinkin today how strange teaching methods can be.....
my examples will follow...... read it, think about it, relate it to your own experiences, go 'oh yeah i get wot u mean' and then store it away somewhere dark!........
At a basic level of learning.... for my examples this would be GCSE P.E or a young football team...... a basic bit of knowledge is given for pupils or players to learn.... for my examples this would be 'the cause of fatigue in muscles is the build up of lactic acid' for the football team a defensive principle 'when you have possession of the ball in defence dont pass it across the face of the goal'.... Now these things have elements of truth in them but fail to give the bigger picture and this makes sense to a point as this allows pupils/players to learn slowly and build up their knowledge.... lactic acid plays a part in fatigue. its presence in the muscle is created via pyruvate which is a by-product of glycolisis (breaking down of glycogen to produce energy). Lactic acid is so unstable that in the presence of lactate dehydrogenase it becomes both lactate in the muscle and hydrogen atoms in the muscle. The cause of fatigue is brought about via the presence of these hydrogen atoms building up due to lack of oxygen delivery to the muscles allowing the hydrogen to carried away....... the defensive principle is simply to give a basic rule of not passing across the goal as this can lead to the opposition intercepting a pass close to your own goal and gifting them a clear shot on goal. The bigger picture is that this is a guideline rule for when the defence is under tight pressure from the opposition, obviously if there is no pressure on then there is no reason at all why a ball should not be passed across the face of the goal and that is even maybe a preferred option as it switches the point of attack while also finding space to play....

anyway my point is that on most cases the pupil/player learns the basic bit and never goes on to learn the whole bit due to not going on to a higher level of that subject and this creates stupidity as then the person who learns that build up of lactic acid causes fatigue or not to pass across goal believes this to be fact or whatever and then tells other people and this kind of thing leads to weird facts coming up that are not true. It doesn't really matter about the lactic acid thing i suppose but the football thing does nothing to improve the quality of football at lower levels. An improved lower level has an effect all the way up to the top..... more players with better understanding of football..... more competition for places in teams..... masses of quality players to select for the country..... win the world cup...... lots of money for the country...... countries pockets get baggy..... i think we all know what that means!?

i dont really make much sense when i go on like this but it releases endorphines into my brain so im just gonna carry on!

I gues what i mean is... when teaching someone something basic so they understand slowly and its not all too much too soon why not make sure of going on to explain the whole thing later on in the term or just even brush over it so they realise there is more to it. A good example here is that stupid thing people say that we only use 10% of our brains!? absolutely no evidence suggesting this is true and loads of evidence to suggest the opposite..... it probably came from some basic level of teaching psychology somewhere.... maybe what was meant was that at any given time we are only using 10% of our brain on average. this doesn't mean we have 90% of brain power we could use for things such as telepathy it just means that for example when you are relaxed the part of your brain that controls excitement is not being used contributing to the 90% that is inactive at that time....... geddit?

I hereby take the opportunity to apologise whole heartedly for this post!

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