On Why the Educational System Tends to "Dumb-down" Critical Thinking and Innovation

[greatoutlaw]

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@fritz

how many venture capitalist around? I don't think there are plenty of them... and don't give that obligation to our government... there are a lot of stuff government is concerned with...

I remember it all starts with our thesis(college). Question is... is it sellable? we all were given those chance to help what @TS... does that mean we can blame others? What did we do? we were given an equal chance...

the importance of inventions and innovations is not to sell or make profit out of it but how it contributes to the growth of science and technology...

[kalanrakas]

Pero what if imung tempora g baligya kay maka gwapo? Kamu asa mu palit?

Ma-tunga gihapon ang sales kay ang mga babaye di man gyud na tingali sila ganahan ma-GWAPO.

[athiesta]

the importance of inventions and innovations is not to sell or make profit out of it but how it contributes to the growth of science and technology...

no question bro... you are correct... we can even say that "HOW IT CONTRIBUTES TO HUMANITY"

but the @TS say why are we taught such things when when can help think for a better solution. It is not about the importance of invention, but what can we do to invent more. They say "most crazy and brilliant ideas started at school". There are a lot of venture capitalist who scouts at schools in the US. We just don't have the same capacity here, that is why we don't contribute so much on this field... there is just no finance capability to support it.

[NASYO]

Critical Thinking naay duha ka sanga
Destructive ug Constructive

Naa pa man gihapon eskwelahan ron nga naggamit ani nga pama-agi, apan wala sa classroom.
Naa sa UP, ubos sa landong sa mga punu-an sa kahoy.

Kay kining pagka-critical man gud, mao ni mopaduso ug mobitad/ mopugong sa kasamtangang gisunod nga mga pama-agi.

[YJOB]

let's insert the SixthSense in this discussion.

it is a great innovation/invention.
will it need superb marketing skills in order to sell worldwide?
or is the invention enough to make it sell by itself?

[dmelsie]

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

[billten]

The Philippine education system teaches us to learn, remember and recite facts and concepts. The western education systems are all now teaching how to learn remember and USE those facts and concepts. The difference is huge. Application your education is more important than just knowing facts.

IMHO, that is the main reason that our education system fails to produce 'lateral thinkers', people who can figure out really interesting and new approaches to an idea. We are taught to imitate and recite, not to innovate...

[grovestreet]

The Philippine education system teaches us to learn, remember and recite facts and concepts. The western education systems are all now teaching how to learn remember and USE those facts and concepts. The difference is huge. Application your education is more important than just knowing facts.

IMHO, that is the main reason that our education system fails to produce 'lateral thinkers', people who can figure out really interesting and new approaches to an idea. We are taught to imitate and recite, not to innovate...

sakto gyud kaayo... I like to add that it's not the the education system that's the sole problem, there are a myriad of interrelated factors that attributes to this trend, one factor would be the kind of culture that has been designed by the "top guys". I'm talking about the consumer culture. I don't think i need to expand on this. hehe

So to quote george carlin... hehe

"they don't want well-informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking, that doesn't help them. That's against their interest. You know what they want? they want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all this increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay and the longer hours."

[superkebot]

hahaha! Because we are paid to do it mga bro! thats the difference between making a living and making the difference.

Our education is about employability. Who would pay your lunch if you cannot even follow your boss direction. Because you are smart doesn't mean you can support your needs. Find an employer to pay for what you do best... and innovate!

[rodsky]

Why teaching is 'not like making motorcars' - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Sir Ken Robinson says our education system works like a factory. It's based on models of mass production and conformity that actually prevent kids from finding their passions and succeeding, he said.

"The problem is that educating young people is not like making motorcars -- at all," the author and educator said in a recent interview. "And one key difference is that motorcars have no interest in how they're made, and young people do."

Robinson, author of "The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything," spoke to CNN after a recent lecture at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California.

TED is a nonprofit group dedicated to "ideas worth spreading" which makes talks from its conferences available online.

Watch a 2006 "TED talk" with Ken Robinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Instead of trying to mass-produce children who are good at taking tests and memorizing things, schools should emphasize personal development, Robinson said. Not all kids are good at the same things, and the education system shouldn't pretend they should all turn out the same, he said.

"We can't just improve [schools]," he said. "We have to radically transform them."

Schools today are "preoccupied with certain types of ability," he said.

The comments came before the current debate over education policy erupted in the United States. President Obama this week proposed an overhaul of the U.S. education system, and a school board in Rhode Island made headlines after it fired all of the teachers at an underperforming high school.

Robinson said his aim is to help students find their passions and to inspire creativity.

That will keep them from turning into complacent and bored adults, he said.

-RODION