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For centuries, the school was based on a few principles.
In the Medieval Age, learning consisted only in induction and the academic
content was the Trivum (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) then the Quadrivium
(music, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy). So it discarded the concept
of a whole goal and of the deduction. Later in history, the Calvinist
conception viewed the student as naturally predisposed to sin, indolence
and self-indulgence. So the school had to be forceful, hard and unforgiving.
The teacher only was in charge of the educational material. The students
had to fit in the class structure for 6 hours per day, all desks facing
the blackboard. They had to write down notes. Missing a class was difficult
to catch up later on. The teaching was uniform in flow and content. The
content was largely outdated. The students intellectual interaction was
only with the teacher. This model worked well for a very long time, and
is still, for ancient studies, classical literature or static content.
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