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The Education System Isn’t Designed for Smart Kids
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/education-system-isnt-designed-smart-kids
Smart, average or not smart, I’ve long seen that there are many different learning styles and people are not all alike. Why do schools not sort students based on how they will do better instead of random clumps of 30 children assigned to one teacher?
The answer to your question is simple. The people “in charge” of “public education” don’t want “educated children”! “They” want dumbed down mind-numbed robots who will follow government instructions. The best example of the opposite of this is the U.S. Navy’s testing and training program. The Navy wants to “retain” it’s investment in training so they do the best that they can to match an individual’s aptitude and attitude for doing a particular job with the training they provide.
I’ve never been a huge fan of Intellectual Takeout, (whenever I engage them in a dialogue, they usually just ignore my points and call me a lazy, blasphemous millennial) but this article is pretty spot on. One-size-fits-all education systems tend to just hamper the abilities of children that excel past them and ruin the lives of the ones that fall behind. Of course, I don’t wanna sound like an armchair psychologist if I can avoid it, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
When one examines the evidence about an “individual”, how could one even begin to think that a “one size fits all would get the job done? The thing that should be done is create an environment where learning can take place. What we have is the opposite of that. What we have is an environment where brain washing takes place.
