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

[nasyo 1.1]

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sa ilalum sa mga punu-an sa mangga sa tulungha-an sa UP. didto nimo masinati ang diskasyon mahitungod sa kalabutan sa pakigpuyo sa ubang tawo diri sa katilingban.

didto nabat-bat ang tanan.
tanan, natong gikalibgan

[owrange]

i wish all parents/people and so the schools can watch that Ken Robinson Ted Talk. aside from the education system, i guess it's our culture of like seeing 'school education as equivalent to bright future' is somehow kind of blind us from what is really 'education.'

as a parent, sometimes i can't help but question if parents going abroad just to send their school to expensive school is worth it. it's just sad sometimes to think that we usually equate 'private/expensive school' as quality education.

owkei, i think i'm out of the topic.

[rodsky]

i wish all parents/people and so the schools can watch that Ken Robinson Ted Talk. aside from the education system, i guess it's our culture of like seeing 'school education as equivalent to bright future' is somehow kind of blind us from what is really 'education.'

as a parent, sometimes i can't help but question if parents going abroad just to send their school to expensive school is worth it. it's just sad sometimes to think that we usually equate 'private/expensive school' as quality education.

owkei, i think i'm out of the topic.

Nope, it's actually quite related to what is being discussed here, so it's good input, owrange. Welcome to the science boards.

-RODION

[bad donkey!]

"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."

hahaha..i actually know a company that has a management that thinks like this...sad...so sad...

[TRIOMATIC]

Tinuod kaau na, labi na diri. We are bred to be workers, who dont think but obey.

[Kenshiro]

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!"

Pink Floyd - the Wall.

Dumb down is the norm these days. Look at the noontime TV shows and current music in the radios.

[yhokz101]

educate the people to become monkeys... in the zoo.

corrosion of conformity...

[Crimson_Viper]

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?

people buy it if they need it or if they have plans for it..