Sucky Schools – How To Repair Our Education System
Lots of good stuff.
Our schools are fact-junkies. We teach students thousands of useless facts that will be forgotten as soon as the next exam is over. Hell, usually they’re forgotten even before that, and then you see students cramming late into night, only to forget it all within 48 hours. How’s that for effective use of everyone’s time.
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Standardized testing is like a black hole that sucks up and annihilates any learning it gets close to. It bends the very fabric of curriculum and students’ time.
via sciencegeekgirl
Just to give credit where credit is due — I unfortunately didn’t write the wonderfully biting bit of prose, above, my blog post actually quotes the original source, An Amazing Mind: http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/05/sucky-schools-how-to-repair-our.html
Education is a production facility. It requires quality inputs, quality labor, quality assurance and control, and a market for its goods. The US Department of Education astoundingly violates every aspect of good manufacturing practice. One wonders why the product is useless, valueless crap.
Identify and amplify the rare Gifted – they have a monopoly on creating every future we want. Educate the medicore that they may produce and consume. Train the non-academic, for there is much to be had for creating with your hands. That leaves the bottom 5% who have a monopoly on creating every future we loathe. Turn your back and walk away. If they fire, fire back.