Pretty much sums up the education system.

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Unclebaldrick said:
Except.... I have a son now. My primary goal will be to light this kid's fire of imagination and curiousity.
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A little off topic, but I had a recent epiphany with parenting so I thought I'd share....

I have 3 kids. The oldest is 12 and the youngest is 5. I have never had to lay a hand on any of them, but I find myself mostly interacting with my kids in a negative manner. "Pick up your toys". "Bring your plates to the kitchen". "I wish you two would stop bickering all of the time". Etc.

My youngest is just learning to ice skate, and he recently turned the corner with it and is doing very well. As a result he is receiving a lot of positive feedback and praise. Now, I have always known that positive reinforcement equals positive behavior but I never realized the extent that this impacts a child. Every aspect of his life has shown marked improvement. He has always been a good kid, but his willingness to cooperate, behave, engage, and learn has improved 10-fold. It's really been an amazing thing to witness. We have taken this same approach with the other 2 and the outcome has been equally as impressive.

My point? Expose your child to a variety of activities/subjects, and be there to pat them on the back... and they will excel. Part of that fire that you want to light is their innate desire to please the most important person in their life. You
 
iamnobody said:
Fair enough.

Scientific method is one action that can be used in some aspects of adult life, even if it is rarely applied. I'll even give you the benefit of the doubt and say more often than I'd realize, possibly using it for basic troubleshooting without actually knowing that I'm going through the process.

I still stand by my belief that education (preferably public education) is geared towards passing standardized testing and not towards building intelligence. I would not consider the bulk of it as proper education, from a final stand point I see the majority of it as secondary information pushed before practical information.

Like I said before it is needed to expose all forms of education throughout the years, but as children become closer to adults the practical information should take precedences leading the rest to be held as electives.

Our basic human rights, Basic first aid, Basic laws of our home country, a second language, driver's ed, understanding taxes, understanding basic politics, home financing, Secondary languages (preferably with relevance to our geographical location), college prep, parenting skills.

During the final four years these should be first priority over classes in

Physics, Chemistry, Advanced Mathematics, Advanced Reading/Writing comprehension, Arts, P.E, History, Geography

At the point of reaching high school we all should all have basic understanding of these concepts. They should be seen as electives making way for the skills that will actually keep us afloat after graduation.
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There are several books about education that might shed light in a series of concepts I see here. For instance, standardized testings were designed to test a set of skills and knowledge that's standard for everybody at a specific point of development, but acquiring skills deemed as necessary for the life in a specific society can't be taught at school in a classroom, it's taught throughout socialization everywhere. There are different kinds of intelligences that develop with stimulation, say the more music you listen and play, the more musical intelligence you develop. Now, learning about the human rights, in a mental stage that you haven't fully developed a personality or sufficient cognitive functions might not be possible. Children are able to imagine abstract, but aren't capable of abstract reasoning, or elaborating an abstract concept. However, children are taught concrete concepts, such as a family, a society, what stuff is. We do reach high school with a concept of things, however vague it may be compared to what an adult knows and understands. Setting concepts for children's understanding happen in games, schooling, in the family, basically wherever child oriented. You want to know how to pay taxes WITHOUT previously knowing math? How about remembering when did you learn about simple and compound interest. Is it the schools work to teach you about life in all it's aspects? Where do parents step in and participate in your equation? Granted, I am not a product of the american public education system, but where I live, there's a national base curriculum of subjects that are mandatory to be taught either in private and public schools. There's a belief that children are supposed to be raised by teachers, which is mistaken, teachers are supposed to teach. Your parents, family or caretakers should have given you the necessary skills to survive in society, the education system is supposed to give the tools to become productive. A 12 year old kid now, theoretically speaking, holds more knowledge about the world than a full grown adult 100 years ago, or even than a scholar of the industrial revolution. Now, the fact the the american public education system is lacking, is not about the content being taught, it's about the system, and deeply about society itself. Generalizing tends to be a fallacy.

Furthermore, educational theories and practices are constantly being challenged and updated.
 
The educational system completely changed from previous system. Now it is much harder from my point of view. As a student, I always do many complicated projects and tasks. In those tasks, essay writing is one of the hard and tough tasks. I always need help with it. I usually use EssaysMatch and I`m absolutely satisfied with results and price.
 
Socioman said:
essay writing is one of the hard
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I know this is old but damn all the bitching and moaning people do about how school didn’t teach you. Chances are they taught you and you were to busy playing with your phone or talking to others.

I learned how to write essays in like the 4th grade, and how to build on them every year of schooling after that. Also taxes and job interviews and all of that shit was covered in HOME ECONOMICS. I know schools don’t teach this anymore (most anyway) but a lot of us had and still has a choice between home ec and shop class, I know most guys picked shop. I decided to take home economics. I learned to repair and turn a wrench way before shop classes were offered. Remember fixing your own bikes and making street bikes out of anything with a motor?
 
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evergreengardener said:
I know this is old but damn all the bitching and moaning people do about how school didn’t teach you. Chances are they taught you and you were to busy playing with your phone or talking to others.

I learned how to write essays in like the 4th grade, and how to build on them every year of schooling after that. Also taxes and job interviews and all of that shit was covered in HOME ECONOMICS. I know schools don’t teach this anymore (most anyway) but a lot of us had and still has a choice between home ec and shop class, I know most guys picked shop. I decided to take home economics. I learned to repair and turn a wrench way before shop classes were offered. Remember fixing your own bikes and making street bikes out of anything with a motor?
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Or shouting down someone with an opposing view that may well fix the problem at hand.

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When I was still working, I would ask the Gen xyz's (and mind you, some of these claimed to be NHS etc), various questions, e.g., Significance of Dec 7th, what is 9x8, who wrote "Treasure Island", what is H2O. Most of the time I got a blank stare. smh
 
BarnBuster said:
When I was still working, I would ask the Gen xyz's (and mind you, some of these claimed to be NHS etc), various questions, e.g., Significance of Dec 7th, what is 9x8, who wrote "Treasure Island", what is H2O. Most of the time I got a blank stare. smh
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Oh nothing easier!

1) The day after December 6th*
2) A small bedroom
3) Adolf Hitler
4) Hot new salon hair products brand with absolutely NO chemicals

*Uhm and like, isn't that, like, the day that, like, Kennedy shot the, y'know fukin' Twin Towers down? And everyone had to, like, call 9-11?
 
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