How would Yea Forums change our current educational system in the United States? Looking back at my collegiate, high school, and primary education I can't think of a single instance that helped me become a better person. It wasn't until I discovered philosophy and other great literature that I felt like I was truly learning something for the first time in my life.
How would Yea Forums change our current educational system in the United States? Looking back at my collegiate...
Jaxon Butler
Anthony Ward
>helped me become a better person
yeah that's not what public education is for
mass, compulsory public education is for producing good drones for various regimented hierarchies (military, corporations, government bureaucracy). It's not "to make you a better person", it's certainly not to make you "truly learn" or think for yourself or whatever.
Luke James
I wanted to be the change I wanted to see, so I dropped out.
Jack Bailey
Getting rid of non whites
Nolan Adams
The biggest positive step we can take into improving education in the United States is getting rid of standardized testing and banning multiple choice questions on tests.
For more specific examples of what we can do to improve our education system, it's trivial to look at higher performing countries and see what they are doing differently.
Camden Evans
Removing tests altogether is better. There need not be a requirement to 'gate' education or standardize the level of a person. The idea that education is a individual role should reign, leveraging the private sector to supplement education for their prospective hires instead of relying on a over encumbered and indebted tertiary education system. Reduce 0-6 Grade to the basic Mathematics, English (Reading, Writing), History/Law (Probably domestic focus). Build a strong foundation of Maths and English. 7-12 Grade should continue with mathematics and english but also add science touching on physics, chemistry, biology then specialize for electives, History and Ethics (expand to global). Simplifying the scope and increasing focus on foundation knowledge is paramount.
Predicated on small class sizes, the ability to remove children that are disruptive, segregate problem children and if need be remove from public school system entirely.
Sebastian Rodriguez
>banning multiple choice questions on tests
This lmao. I very rarely had to actually learn in school, I never studied and still passed. Any multiple choice test I aced just based off of the process of elimination, and the classes that didn't use multiple choice, like mathematics or chemistry, came surprisingly easy to me. I never did any homework or projects and still passed. I was never challenged at all.
Jackson Morgan
By abolishing it.
Education was a mistake. Just look at the state of things now.
Christian Taylor
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Asher Hill
To be honest, probably one of the biggest problem for the US education system working is the late age at which children go into it. If you want to make them drones, you have to get them while they're forming social awareness. Without that, they're untrainable unless you army drill their social map out of them again, which very few schools would want to do.
If you want to make educated children, you need more tests, however. If you make placement past primary education predicated on results, suddenly a lot of parents will care their child is not doing their homework or wrecking the curve. Standardized tests in the US are pretty easy compared to most other countries, especially the ones relying on knowledge economies. They generally demand a second language to not be relegated to the assembly line at fifteen, like the Prussian model was designed around job sorting by ability. You can get a lot of scholars out of the Prussian system, but not by delaying testing for duds until 18 and then only doing it in two subjects.
If you start placing by skill at eleven and fifteen, it makes placing university students by ability much easier too.