Tag: education
Our modern-day schooling system was designed to train children into becoming the perfect employee, to sit at a desk perhaps, or follow orders effectively for when they are old enough to enter the workforce. The hours, little time for play, taking instructions from a person with authority and unfortunately, leaving little room for exploring creative abilities.
Over the last 40 years, the assault on Western culture and civilization has taken people so far away from lucid thinking and logic, they don’t even know this discipline exists at all. What has replaced it is entertainment. It seems that hundreds of gimmicks and machines are now necessary, in order to keep the attention of children in school. There is a fear that without these “up-to-date” items, the kids will drop into a coma or walk out of the classroom.
Students are up to their eyeballs in student loan debt and the department of education is taking action against certain for-profit schools.
We spend our formative years in school, developing our rational minds, but our emotions receive no formal attention. High divorce rates, job loss, employment stress, accidents, deaths, personal struggles, changing hormones, financial problems and health issues challenge everyone’s emotional health. Yet, as a society, we stubbornly treat the development of our emotions as a low priority. Since emotions are invisible, they are treated as if they don’t exist.
By Lance Schuttler | TheMindUnleashed.com “Reform is not enough anymore. Because that’s simply improving a broken model. What we need, and the word’s been used many times in the course of the past few days, is not evolution, but a revolution in education. This has to be transformed into something else.” – Sir Ken Robinson […]
The issue of how school administrators respond to LGBT students’ expression of their sexuality does not seem to be going away. What are your thoughts on this?
A major new study urges education officials to tackle a racial divide in the classroom that’s getting wider each year—especially in taxpayer-funded charter schools.
Though children in both countries suffer from low activity levels, a key difference exists between Finland and the United States: Hundreds of schools across this tiny Nordic nation are now endeavoring to keep kids active throughout the day through a relatively new government initiative called “Finnish Schools on the Move.” This experiment could serve as an example of what America, where problems such as childhood obesity are on the rise, could do to get kids more active.
According to a documentary on CBC’s The Current, more and more professors are banning laptops. What’s your opinion on this?
Have you educated yourself on your education options? The answer may shock you.
The education system in western society is not geared towards providing what’s best for each child. Primarily it is designed to produce citizens who contribute to, and consume from, the interdependent global economy. It’s like a factory assembly line; what mundane 9-5 job are we best suited to live a stressed out adult existence?
Listed here are 15 essential life skills that determine your success yet aren’t part of a typical school curriculum, although they really ought to be.
The question worth debating is this: Is forced education–and the consequential imprisonment of children–a good thing or a bad thing? Most people seem to believe that it is, all in all, a good thing; but I think that it is, all in all, a bad thing.
One of the globe’s biggest publishers of textbooks and other educational materials has taken to monitoring the social media accounts of students to see if they discuss their exams.
Research now shows that homework, especially too much homework, may actually hinder a student rather than help.
