May 19, 2011
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The downfall of today’s education system.
This is SO TRUE!! The attached video shows how the quality of today’s education system is still the same as yesterday’s old system, thus a disadvantage to today’s society. It focuses on the education system in USA but I think the whole concept has a more global meaning and CAN be applied to the rest of the world.
Comments (17)
I totally agree with the video. I am an academic by definition but not my definition!
i've seen this video and it pretty much sums it all up.
Very engaging video. I wonder how this can be applied, though? If we should move away from the sort of factory-line production of business-minded people and into a system where groups of people are lumped together based on shared interest and ability... how will that work?
It would have been cool if I grew up in an education system that encouraged students to really go with their interests and then to know that there'd be a place in the future for me where I could earn an living in my field of interest. I do agree that most jobs sound boring, and it's these jobs that pay the most.
Very interesting. Makes a strong argument, potentially, for home schooling. The thing that most caught my attention was the longitudinal study about the capacity for divergent thinking. No surprise, of course, that young children are genius at this and that as we get older, we lose the capacity. Much the same as when you ask young children how many of them are artists or singers or dancers, nearly all say yes. But as we get older, we somehow learn that we are not.
I may borrow this and cross-post on my blog...
@stepaside_loser - You would have to radically change how public schooling works, building something more akin to academies where classes were based more on abilities than on age. Learning would have to be more collaborative and inter-disciplinary, something I know some schools in the US are starting to try.
@christao408 - Does that mean learning multiple subjects at the same time? I wonder what would happen in class, what sorts of activities would occur and what they would talk about? I'm having a hard time picturing, in a clear way, how it would work.
As adults, don't we already have the power to learn what interests us? Aren't we capable of identifying where our strengths are and using these strengths?
I'm trying to apply what was discussed in the clip to my own situation, and it doesn't seem so revolutionary, at the moment. Maybe he was only referring to the compulsory schooling in our younger years.
@stepaside_loser - I think he's speaking entirely of the compulsory K-12 education program.
wow interesting!!
GOOOO...ASIA!
@stepaside_loser - @christao408 - i have wondered how differently i'd turn out if i were educated differently. how much more of myself i could be and to be the very best version of myself (you got this, chris?). it was when i went overseas for education that i started to learn the availability in opportunity to learn something other than what i was accustomed to and learned to 'like' school. but even then, there were times when i had wished for a different environment to allow the possibility to learn other things that interested me but not yet available for me at the time. how i had wished the school system would change in a way that's recommended in the video. why it takes so long for the department of education around the world to 'get it' is beyond my comprehension. is it any wonder why more and more younger generations beginning to resent the idea of 'schooling' and prefer to ditch high school all together?
@rudyhou - i think there are also very good aspects of current Western ways (Australian ways) of teaching, compared to teaching in China, etc. There's less focus on academic drilling (my impression of Chinese schools - could be wrong) and a more 'rounded' focus on a variety of subjects - we can choose the subjects from a variety of areas to study in for our final high school result to get into university.
@stepaside_loser - i'm not sure how they do it in china, but from what i understand many asian countries put more emphasis on religion and national history and anything that has a patriotic feel to the subject. everything else is secondary. even less for anything that has to do with the outside real world. the education world here has changed somewhat due to the changing of the world but still way behind in comparison to what it should offer to the new generations. in indonesia alone, more and more 'internationalized' private schools have been established due to the rising demand for a better education quality, which ticked the government and made them complain on how non-patriotic those schools are.
@rudyhou - Thanks for the interesting insight into Indonesia's education system. It's good to hear that Indonesians increasingly have the option of a more well-rounded education experience with international schools.
I think those more 'nationalistic' education systems, where only certain subjects are offered, implies that the government believes citizens don't know what's good for the country and that the citizens need to be forced to do what's best - meaning their own individual interests are abandoned for the good of what a government believes is best. That's too much power concentrated on a few people, I reckon.
@stepaside_loser - well, indonesia is NOT and has NEVER been a democratic country. it's in fact, a republican nation since the first time an independence day was announced. many changes have taken place in the way the country is run, but not without many turmoils. as the new generations are letting their voices out and demanding to be heard, this country is, it seems, changing for the better, though slow it may be. i have hope, as everyone should, but unsure of how long my faith will keep me contend.
i love RSAnimations. what a fantastic video. great find!
Everything is so much easier said that done. -____-
The government has such a strong hold on the future of education, and they're failing students everyday. So many things this video pointed out that I have never thought about.
Lol, I love how he didn't even draw Oklahoma right! I'm from OK, & it is quite bland. Rarely do they speak about ethnic-history in classes, though, which is similar throughout the US. Also, too bad we don't focus on divergent thinking. Standardized testing is the bulk of education in the US now. No thinking outside the box or critically-thinking.
Thanks for this post! I'm going to post it on facebook.
@bengozen - thx.
@HelloKitty0809 - you very welcome. yes, go ahead and post it. it's meant to be shared.