IF ALL CAN BE EDUCATED
Post by: admin on May 10th, 2009 | File Under Education, Generalour educational system’s failures stem from the fundamental lie that every child can be anything he or she wants and that such educational romanticism prevents progress. Four simple truths, asserts, would prove better: children have different abilities, half of the children are below average, too many children go to college, and America’s future depends on the gifted discussing various types of abilities instead of the oft-maligned I.Q. measure; I believe that test scores reflect ability. I argue that there are only a limited number of academically gifted people and these are America’s future leaders, that only this elite can enjoy college productively and that the nongifted shouldn’t be channeled by their high school counselors into training for that college chimera, which wouldn’t make them happy anyway. Further, if the Educational Testing Service created certification tests covering what employers want applicants to know, these would become the gold standard for applicants, rather than college degrees. There will be no age, racial discriminations or anything at all you will be free to learn whenever you want.For those who are just returning back to college after 7 years for grad school, there is online school.There will be no age, racial discriminations or anything at all you will be free to learn whenever you want.Studying online doesnt need school inorder to accomodate students but just one computer is enough to broaden the knowledge of every individual specially those people who wants to take time to study and dont have time to commute just to go to school or If that means we need to created schools that focus on certain subjects, all the better. The point is that our current system is broken and for all the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend on education, the benefits of that spending are accruing to the wrong people. Our focus must be on the students, their lives, and the country we are passing on to future generations.
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