Doesn't anyone else feel that the education system itself needs a re-education?
By Vvance
@Vvance (280)
United States
May 16, 2012 1:32am CST
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education - Albert Einstein.
It's been the same for thousands of years.
Go to school. Go to college. Get a degree. Get a job. Work your *cough* off until you retire, and then somehow make ends meet until you pass on.
Seriously, why hasn't anybody thought of doing things differently? Yes, you might say that this method has been tried and tested for years. But it's glaringly obvious to anyone with a brain stem that this system hasn't been doing the global economy any favors.
For one, it's pretty clear to me that degrees are overrated. There's been a whole lot of research that goes to show that many people with degrees are not even as smart as 10 year olds, in that they cannot explore any possibility beyond the realms of everyday routine.
Moreover, ANYONE can get a degree by just buying one, or getting all the work done by someone else.
I would say the best way for us to go about it is to give everyone the basic education that we receive, namely until high school, and then sort everyone out according to their interests. Maybe there could be some arrangement that ensures that people get jobs that they've got a passion for, and not just ones that pay the bills. Then, after high school, we could spend a while at the 'company', learning how things work, and later, start working.
Well, this is one of the theories that might come in handy, but I'm sure there are many others out there who have other ideas too. There is no doubt that the world needs some radical changes right now, and myLot is as good a starting place as any. Haha well, even if it doesn't bring about a global revolution, discussing it can only move things forward, let's hope.
3 responses
@GreenMoo (11834)
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16 May 12
I personally don't think that anyone should go onto 'higher' education unless they are convinced that it is what they want and there's a reason for them to do so. There seem to be an awful lot of young people wasting their time in university studying for degrees they'll never use. The number of young people who come and volunteer here who are university drop outs indicates to me that some of them should never have been there in the first place.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
16 May 12
Yes, I have really felt that way for the longest time, that the education system as it is, is rather outdated. It might have worked fifteen, twenty years ago, but time has changed. Oh don't get me wrong, there have been a lot of times where things have been added, but overall they are trying to really do something that worked a long time ago, but now, not so much.
Of course in the end, it is just a system that many people won't really just change the status quo of until it is changed. For the most part, students are moved through like cattle, passed whether they should be or not. Teachers with the exception of an exceptional few, are zombies who are collecting a paycheck, scarcely more qualified to teach the subject than the students teaching.
@Vvance (280)
• United States
27 May 12
Thank you, megamatt, for your valued opinion.
I agree with a lot that you talked about, especially the last part about teachers being zombies collecting their paychecks! I've met many teachers who know little about the subject beyond their everyday teaching knowledge. I mean, anyone can do that can't they? Read what you're going to talk about beforehand, and then go to class, and pretend you're an expert at it?
It's really high time that we see some changes around here, and let's keep our fingers crossed for something that can make a real difference.
@GemmaR (8517)
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16 May 12
I think that teachers and people who run the schools do need a wake up call. I know a friend who has two young children, and they are both 11 years old and doing exams in schools right now. They are being made to feel very stressed by the exams because the school are putting that amount of pressure on them, and this is something that I just don't think is right at all for young children. They should be encouraged to explore their talents, not made to be stressed about exams that are more about showing the quality of the school than showing the quality of the pupils.
@Vvance (280)
• United States
17 May 12
Hi GemmaR,
Stress is something that I should've talked about in my post, but I seemed to feel it was quite a long post anyway, and that adding any more would've just made it tiring to read, haha.
It definitely does affect the health of students more than people think. If things keep going they way they are, the present generation of our youth could end up with all kinds of stress induced disorders.
And another thing I've felt is that most of these things that students are made to do in the name of 'education' are close to pointless. Assignments, exams, pop quizzes, I mean, every student does it JUST for the sake of getting through that grade. Not one cares about LEARNING anymore. You can't blame them, of course. Society's got its priorities all wrong.
