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[–] Garbalon ago 

That's it's job. It's designed to create soldiers and factory workers. In Canada it's illegal to home school your kids.

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[–] mudbear ago 

I call bullshit, blacks dont get educated at all and also dont have any imagination

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[–] bman0321 ago 

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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] 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.

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[–] ZardoZ2017 0 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

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[–] Wonder_Boy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Came here to share this. Well done.

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[–] RickC-137 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I like how they don't talk about the methods used at all.

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[–] mudbear 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

indeed, what basis are they using for creative genius? from what im going to assume, creative genius to these people are impractical solutions that fix nothing, then education slowly teaches them why having marshmallow paved roads is a bad thing they stop coming up with these 'creative' ideas and instead think more along the lines of paving the roads with something robust, durable and cheap.

Without knowing what they use to qualify creative genius as, you cant say whether reducing 'creative geniuses' is a good or a bad thing, hell using my example, it could be the best thing to happen for them

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