[–] ZardoZ2017 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
One of the few TED talks i ever liked is Ken Robinson making a compelling case for how schools are killing creativity. The best 11m41sec video that nails it in many ways. https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
[–] PsyOp 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
John D. Rockefeller founded the General Education Board in 1903, which is the origin of today's public school system.
“In our dream we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply." ~ Rev. Frederick T. Gates, Business Advisor to John D. Rockefeller Sr., 1913
Edit: here's a good video of John Gatto explaining the purpose of the public school system... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeEWPbTad_Q
Based on what? The authors make it sound like new 5 year old kindergarten class are inventing calculus every year until they are taught arithmetic. Accordingly the uneducated should be crushing life, and the dark ages should actually be the Renaissance. What backwards logic, sjws invading another field.
[–] HillBoulder ago
I tell you what was soul crushing was hearing the teacher every fucking morning at the same time in the same way "pull out your religion text books please." First thing every day it was mine numbing torture, I'm not sure if I ever fully recovered.
[–] YouKnowItIKnowIt ago
When I was growing up kids were specifically shamed for having an imagination.
[–] KarateCowboy ago
I am skeptical of this for two reasons:
1 ) Creative and innovative does not mean effective and practical. "Use a magic elephant to bring food to the poor people" is creative, but not practical.
2) Correlation does not mean causation. It could be that such a decline is caused entirely by the system, entirely natural, or a mix of both.
[–] dried_up_mantis 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This study doesn't mean show what the headline states unless they compared the public school group to a homeschool group or another group of non-public-schooled children. Given the information the reader has, it might mean that as we age we just lose creativity as our brains change.