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[–] greenfascist 2 points 17 points (+19|-2) ago 

false. Kids are not creative geniuses. They have active imaginations.

Do not conflate the two. They are related, but not the same.

Kids do not have the depth of knowledge acquired through years of experience to be creative geniuses.

I can't believe I even have to type these sentences. I pray for a nuclear holocaust every day.

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[–] NeoGoat ago 

Why do you pray for a nuclear holocaust? Are you very picky? Would you be happy if an asteroid destroyed civilization? How about a plague? An alien invasion seems like it would be entertaining, with the sci-fi element and all.

I do agree with the first part of your comment. Of course, some kids are smart and some are too dumb to create anything but poop.

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[–] mudbear ago 

Agreed. Education for the most part is reading, writing and mathematics. Reading and writing require certain rules to be followed else we end up retarded sturcture lanwidge nd cant ppl nderstand wat u r seyin Maths just outright rules out some creative solutions due to logic getting in the way of fantasy. The only thing i think schools need to keep their noses out of is culture (promoting one over another) and historical interpretation (the holohoax etc). The only indoctrination i experienced at highschool was in social studies, which covered history and introduced me to the holohoax -_-

This just seems like some pointless finger pointing to me, no doubt things could be better but this is hardly productive. Also, leaving schooling entirely up to the school is a big problem here, if parents arent parenting, which INVOLVES teaching, then its THEM that are failing the children, not the teachers.

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[–] HuginnOgMuninn ago 

I guess using nuclear power to exterminate jews is as good a way as any.

But seriously, the upvote to downvote ratio on this is terrible and a few of these comments here actually terrify me and beckon me to leave this site never to return.

There are a fucktonne of crackpots and misfits who've left their kids out of the educational system, and they aren't all growing up to become Musks or Newtons or Beethovens, the trend is actually in the other direction, towards alienation, detachment, general crackpottery.

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[–] Crensch 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

"Oh hey, kids are more likely to find something amazing by being idiot lemmings that will try literally anything if left unsupervised. Given an infinite number of kids and infinite time, every creative thing ever will totally happen."

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[–] KarateCowboy 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Exactly.

"Sing a magic song that summons a flying elephant fairy to bring food to the poor people!" -- very creative. Not at all practical.

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[–] tendiesonfloor 1 point 41 points (+42|-1) ago 

We don't have an education system. We have an indoctrination system.

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[–] vastrightwing 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

It poses as education, yet offers gender reassignment, tyrannizes parents, rotten to the core, LGBT studies, identity politics, safe spaces, group think, feelings and multiculturalism. Missing are critical thinking, reading, writing, math, science and art.

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[–] CaliforniaOrange 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Abolish the department of education, leave educating and the curriculum up to the state and local levels.