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    New-Fist-Hammer-Maker introduced activities like catching fish, hunting horses, and fighting tigers to the children in his community as a curriculum to make their lives better. This educational system prospered the community as the children learned skills needed for survival. However, environmental conditions later changed as the glacier melted and the wildlife patterns shifted. New techniques like net fishing and animal trapping were then needed. But introducing these new relevant skills to the education system met opposition, as the elders saw education as developing general abilities rather than mere training for current conditions. They viewed true education as timeless and enduring through change.

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    New-Fist-Hammer-Maker introduced activities like catching fish, hunting horses, and fighting tigers to the children in his community as a curriculum to make their lives better. This educational system prospered the community as the children learned skills needed for survival. However, environmental conditions later changed as the glacier melted and the wildlife patterns shifted. New techniques like net fishing and animal trapping were then needed. But introducing these new relevant skills to the education system met opposition, as the elders saw education as developing general abilities rather than mere training for current conditions. They viewed true education as timeless and enduring through change.

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    The Saber-Tooth Curriculum

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    The Saber Tooth Curriculum


    by Harold Benjamin

    A man by the name of New-Fist-Hammer-Maker knew how to do things his community


    needed to have done, and he had the energy and the will to go ahead and do them. By
    virtue of these characteristics, he was an educated man. New–Fist was also a thinker.
    Then as now, there were few lengths to which men would not go to avoid the labour and
    pain of thought .... New-Fist got to the point where he became strongly dissatisfied with
    the accustomed ways of his tribe. He began to catch glimpses of ways in which life might
    be made better for himself, his family and his group. By virtue of this development, he
    became a dangerous man...
    New-Fist thought about how he could harness the children's play to I better the life of the
    community. He considered what adults do for survival and introduced these activities to
    children in a deliberate and formal way. These included catching fish with bare hands,
    clubbing little woolly horses, and chasing away-sabre-toothed-tigers-with-fire. These then
    became the curriculum and the community began to prosper-with plenty of food, hides for
    attire and protection from threat. “It is supposed that all would have gone well forever with
    this good educational system, if conditions of life in that community remained forever the
    same.” But conditions changed.
    The glacier began to melt and the community could no longer see the fish to catch with
    their bare hands, and only the most agile and clever fish remained which hid from the
    people. The woolly horses were ambitious and decided to leave the region. The tigers got
    pneumonia and most died. The few remaining tigers left. In their place, fierce bears
    arrived who would not be chased by fire. The community was in trouble.
    One day, in desperation, someone made a net from willow twigs and found a new way to
    catch fish-and the supply was even more plentiful than before. The community also
    devised a system of traps on the path to snare the bears. Attempts to change education
    system to include these new techniques however encountered "stern opposition.”
    These are also activities we need to know. Why can't the schools teach them? But most
    of the tribe particularly the wise old men who controlled the school, smiled indulgently at
    this suggestion. “That wouldn't be education... it would be mere training”: We don't teach
    fish grabbing to catch fish, we teach it to develop a generalized agility which can never
    be duplicated by mere training ... and so on.
    “If you had any education yourself, you would know that the essence of true education is
    timelessness. It is something that endures through changing conditions like a solid rock
    standing squarely and firmly in the middle of a raging torent”

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