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What if we empowered our children to think for themselves rather than parrot the facts and figures they are instructed to memorize if they are to succeed in school? That might be dangerous to society as we know it.
One of the first statements a professor of education at a venerable and well-established university in California made to his class with regard to children in public school was: "We don't want them to think".
Children, think? God forbid!
Originally posted by JimmyCarterIsSmarter
Teenages & kids like me, do want to learn.
But how am I mean't to learn wasting years of MY ONE LIFE learning about complete and utter crap?
Why do I HAVE to waste 15 hours of my life, learning about simple algebra that I learnt in the first hour?
Why do I have to do a piegraph about results about how much amazon is deforested? All I need to do to learn that is read it. We do pie graphs in maths!!!
If we do learn pie graphs in Maths, why do I waste my time doing 30 of them??? I should only do about 5.
If schooling was done my way, I could be way more smarter than I am now.
In my conclusion ;eople under 16 or so aren't free, we are forced to crap and waste a part of our lifes.
When I'm older, theres going to be some changes to this world.
Why don't when I'm older (if I am in charge of what ever which I wont), I'll just get the god damn people who made up the school system, and lock them up on alkatraz for the rest of there lives?
[edit on 24/11/05 by JimmyCarterIsSmarter]
[edit on 24/11/05 by JimmyCarterIsSmarter]
Originally posted by JimmyCarterIsSmarter
Teenages & kids like me, do want to learn.
But how am I mean't to learn wasting years of MY ONE LIFE learning about complete and utter crap?
Why do I HAVE to waste 15 hours of my life, learning about simple algebra that I learnt in the first hour?