# How Has Education Changed Since You Went to School? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 9, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-education-changed-since-you-went-to-school/685700 "2014-04-09T05:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 58
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-education-changed-since-you-went-to-school/685700/58 "2014-04-16T17:27:48Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > My son is starting Junior High, and this reminds me of some of his class scheduling options. The classes themselves are hybrid- He can register for a Science-English, for example. My sixth grader was assigned a 5-7 page paper with 5 sources (3 had to be books) and 10 footnotes/citations (1 citation required from each source.) Unlike her dad (and to her benefit) she handled it with aplomb and turned in a 15 page biography of JRR Tolkien. Most of it had to do with his childhood, and she ended it with a quote from Gandalf. To prepare, she did 11 note cards and an outline. She did the note cards twice as she thought she lost them, recreating them in about 2-3 hours. She has her mother to thank for these habits. And I think that, compared to the schooling I had, this was about 1-2 years ahead of me (as far as the assignment goes) and is probably 6 years ahead of me in the amount of maturity and preparation. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-education-changed-since-you-went-to-school/685700)._