Comments on: Sucky Schools – How To Repair Our Education System

By: Getting in Touch With Your Inner Expedition Leader — Fun Life Development

Getting in Touch With Your Inner Expedition Leader — Fun Life Development — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:23:23 +0000

[...] prefer being an expedition leader (see Lucid Dreaming, or my thoughts on the school system), but this isn’t a post about [...]

By: Vlad Dolezal

Vlad Dolezal — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:57:18 +0000

@X-man:

Spot on, I couldn’t have said it better!

By: X-man

X-man — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:40:17 +0000

A very good article , a lot of interesting information and great analysis of a very important problem which is a crutial part of our system. I have only one thing to say..and is related to the part refering to grades and how they depress and alter our vision from the main thing, which is Learning. We live is a social-capitalist society and there are a lot of humans in the world. We live in a pretty mobile world were everyone is fighting for his proper place in the system, to achieve stability, progress and to furfill his goals. No dought Learning, knowledge and skill is a essentiel part in achieveing these things. Thats why grades are created ,to compare humans to one another. For the system to work, some must get the job and others must not get the job ( not because they are less capable but simply because there arn’t enauph places( same thing about quality universities( limited amount of places, limited amount of people permitted) and etc etc…which all end up in a capitalist web of ideas : Greater chance For Success). So grades is one of this things which was not at all created for stimulating learning and it didnt have any psyhological structure behind it, its simply another mesure created by humanity to compare each individual to the other one and to give or take from him certain rights. There are many other reasons for grading, but stimulating more education and learning is not one of Them. So the conclusion is that people shouldnt rly care about grades if they want to learn because as you said they will only stress them and they will miss the “”target”".

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:59:24 +0000

Some of the things you’re saying are definitely correct, but some I think aren’t. This blog adds more to this topic for those who are interested. http://higher-ed-reform.blogspot.com/

Teaching facts is an important thing. And while I agree that “understanding” should be taught as well, I feel that facts are just as important, since they form the basis of understanding. For example, to use an example from higher mathematics, you can not do any of the complicated intellectual stuff in algebra till you sit down and memorize a group of about a dozen axioms… And yes, I mean straight up memorize.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:19:30 +0000

Beautiful article.

By: Lit Guy

Lit Guy — Sat, 23 May 2009 03:20:39 +0000

Your article proves to me that I have probably never had an original thought in my life. I have used the teaching music analogy in a less elegant form when discussing literacy instruction. I believe we have sucked the life out of literature, reading, and writing by entrusting publishing companies with the education of children. Anyway, great job on this piece.

By: Snyder

Snyder — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:00:13 +0000

The Governments of this world are afraid of creativity because it overturns old stuck in
the mud customs and set ways to follow established procedures. Administrators in education
fucked up when they made teachers third rate citizens. Schools would be much better ran by
seasoned and retired teachers that have already been there and done that and need a
jerked off superintendent like a freak needs an extra hole in his head. Ron Paul has already
given you idiots the solution and you selected obamma instead. Lots of Luck !!

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:19:45 +0000

Came across here through stubleupon , I completely agree with you. I’m a Junior in Highschool and I can tell you that our education system sucks completely. The periods I actually look forward to are Computer Science and P.E. . In Comp Sci our teacher is very loose and lets us work on our own , or in pairs on projects. I have learned so much more when he lets us free to do our own thing. P.E. is honestly a blowoff class and that’s why I love it. First off , I’m not fat or anything. In fact we ran the pacer test and I got first place. The thing is they force you to to have 3 P.E. credits to graudate so I have to take it. Anyway , I just talk to 2 of my friends in there. We talk about so much stuff, politics, smoking bans, singularity, simulism, and computer science . I’ve probably learned more in PE then in any other class (excluding Comp Sci). Liked the article, thumbs up

By: Cap’n Refsmmat’s Blog of Doom » Bored Students: Unite

Cap’n Refsmmat’s Blog of Doom » Bored Students: Unite — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:45:50 +0000

[...] recently came across a like-minded blog post that spurred me into action. I’m a student: I can easily talk to dozens of teachers and [...]

By: Mark Freedman’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Most Important Question is Always “Why”

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:57:09 +0000

[...] It forces us to think. It forces us to analyze, which leads to true learning. Unfortunately, the system encourages the simple (for teachers) multiple choice [...]