[MoE] Pt. 3: The Mid-Morning of Education

Day 2,612, 04:23 • Published in Austria Austria • by exkrementensammler

With the advent of language, Education was primed to make a major leap forward. No longer did mid-morning man need to use "oook" for everything - now there were words like "Fire!", "Sharp!", "Cliff!", and "Holy Shit!". With such descriptive vocalizations, mid-morning man was able to build on concrete learning opportunities using analogy and relational syntax. This soon led to more formalized education, as tribes realized the value in standardized linguistic vocalizations, as can be seen in this educational example:

Scene fades in as Zook, sitting around a fire with a group of other children, starts to reach towards a burning fire with his bare hand.
"Hot!" points out Gook.
"Hot?" Zook asks, looking back at Gook.
"Hot." confirms Gook.
Zook sticks his hand in the fire for a second, then pulls it out and runs away screaming.
Gook shakes his head and mutters, "Dumbass."
The other children watching repeat, "Hot, dumbass."

Thus via the great merger of experiential learning with verbal contextual syntax, educational opportunities were suddenly available to students not involved in the experiential part of the lesson. While seeming limitless to us modern folks, this educational technique had serious failings as it progressed from topics like "hot" and "sharp" to "terminal velocity" and "ice age". (Not to mention "mass extinction".)

cheers
Harzakc, MD
Minister of Education