A to Z Quick Chat 90 | Do you believe in the value of traditional education, or do you think there are better ways to learn and acquire knowledge?

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack is joined by his good friends May, Layla, and Hendrick as they discuss the questions: Do you believe in the value of traditional education, or do you think there are better ways to learn and acquire knowledge? 00:00:01 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast, where Jack and Social take you on a journey from learning the basics to mastering the nuances of the English language. Our podcast is designed for non-native speakers who are looking to improve their English skills in a fun and interactive way. Each episode covers a wide range of. 00:00:22 Jack Topics from grammar and vocabulary to slang and culture to help you navigate the English speaking world with ease. 00:00:32 Jack Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm one of the hosts of this podcast. I am here without my co-host social, however, I am lucky enough to be in the presence of three amazing people may from Malaysia, Hendrick from Indonesia, and Leila. 00:00:52 Jack From Saudi Arabia and they're back again for another episode. How are you doing today, guys? 00:00:59 May Everything is fine, Jack. 00:01:01 Hendrick Yeah, I'm doing good. 00:01:03 Jack Don't worry everybody listeners out there. Leila's Wi-Fi is a little bit wobbly today, but we'll I think it's. I think she's gonna make it. I have a good feeling. It's gonna. We're gonna make it through. So what we're going to do today is a quick chat episode and I'm going to ask. 00:01:22 Jack My guests are question, question and then we're all going to take turns and share our opinions about these questions. So the first the question, the only question today is. 00:01:34 Jack Is do you believe in the value of traditional education? 00:01:41 Jack Or do you think there are better ways to learn and acquire knowledge? 00:01:49 Jack And I could read it one more time for our listeners out there so they can catch it. Do you believe in the value of traditional education or do you think there are better ways to learn and acquire knowledge? 00:02:09 Jack That's the question, and I'll let whoever wants to go first is free to jump in. 00:02:15 May I believe traditional education is still is still necessary or still still value these days. 00:02:27 May Because when when we mention about traditional education, I believe it is something to do with going to school, meeting the teachers and sit sitting in the classroom and learn together with. 00:02:44 May Our friends, I mean our, our friends, the classroom. 00:02:50 May In that way way we will learn. 00:02:53 May Exactly how to communicate with people. 00:02:57 May In real, in actual or maybe so communication skills is? 00:03:03 May Very important, although these days will be getting used on the Internet or online platform, but I believe it's still important to be traditional. 00:03:18 May As I mean, sitting in the class learning, talking to the teachers directly, so that would be perfect. 00:03:26 Jack OK, OK. So may you're. 00:03:29 Jack You're still a traditionalist. Do you still think the uh, the current uh approach? The current tradition is still valuable to students. 00:03:37 May Yeah, it's still, it is still reasonable because we need to. 00:03:44 May Actual communication with I mean face to face communication with each other. 00:03:50 May When it comes to computers, we can. I mean, it's not difficult at all and we just we just press 1 button and then we can hide our face and we can maybe beautifying our our face, beautify our face and. 00:04:08 May And so but and it it comes to physical communication or with physical contact with people, things are different. 00:04:20 Jack OK. And you're talking about like online offline education? 00:04:25 Jack UM, when you think of traditional, you think of in the classroom, students are facing the teacher. The teacher is at the front of the classroom, but online would be, you know, through some kind of platform like what we're using right here. Zoom to communicate to