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

By: I’m glad I wasn’t accepted into music production studies at university

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:17:37 +0000

[...] Someone would be telling me what to do and given me grades. I’m not entirely negative to being told what to do, but I have some issues with grading as a form of feedback. [...]

By: Dreaming isn’t dead, it’s just been forgotten

Dreaming isn’t dead, it’s just been forgotten — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:30:54 +0000

[...] it easier to learn and figure out things. For more, check out Ken Robinson’s TED talk and Vlad Dolezal’s article, both on creativity in [...]

By: Dreaming isn’t dead, it’s just been forgotten

Dreaming isn’t dead, it’s just been forgotten — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:06:04 +0000

[...] it easier to learn and figure out things. For more, check out Ted Robinson’s TED talk and Vlad Dolezal’s article, both on creativity in [...]

By: Remember The Bad

Remember The Bad — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:13:18 +0000

[...] High school was annoying and often a complete waste of time. [...]

By: Jon Vellner

Jon Vellner — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:18:20 +0000

Best… article… ever!
Long live learning! (the real kind)

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.