#UOSB anonymous wrote: Once upon a time, in a province far, far away… I was a student. Like most people growing up in the 1st world, I had access to modern schooling… what some would call an education. I went to school each day, and I did my best to memorize things so that I could get a good grade on my exams. After I finished, I would then proceed to forget absolutely everything I “learned”. It’s been many years, and I’ve had a lot of time to think about this experience. What I’ve realized over the years is that what I was spending all my time doing wasn’t really learning. No… it was something far more insidious, because it masks itself as learning. There’s a reason that so many people get a post secondary education, don’t learn anything, and finally graduate years later with a massive debt hanging over their head, and not a single useful skill to show for it. That’s why I believe that the education system is fundamentally broken and needs to be re-thought, and re-built from the ground up. Education means more than just parroting answers… it means thinking for yourself – a skill which seems to be rapidly disappearing from the minds of today’s youth.
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 04:54:11 +0000
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