[–] 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.
[–] DefenderOfTruth 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I didn’t need a study to tell me that. I was homeschooled and still notice a very big difference with how I process things and solve problems vs how public schooled people do. Public school shuts people down to be obedient robots.
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.
[–] 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.
[–] WhiteRonin ago
The difference is desks. Some kids like the military system. Many don’t. It was a game of averages until it was researched.
[–] 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