I hope you realize how incredibly socialist and anti-capitalism and eugenics directed your illogical position is. You wish to make others responsible for the initiative and effort of others. Hey I grew up in all black schools in the slums of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, but that did not stop me from learning, because I was eager to learn. I would learn more at home in my room with all my books and gadgets or in the back yard digging up bugs and studying behavior than I did in school sometimes. I regret the internet was not available when I was 5 years old. I can only imagine, as I can see my (and I am sure your) ability to generate knowledge accelerated upon the network effects of the internet.
Education and rote learning is not knowledge because it is in the past. Knowledge is created by the ability to think and react to new scenarios. Autodidactism is the future because it is both more efficient and it generates the initiative to create knowledge.
EdumactionI very much agree with your opinion. But you must understand too, that for every coin there are two sides. I was talking from the side of the professor; not the student. In modern classes we have about 4-10% (depends of the country, system and other factors) of students that actually comply with the current educational system; they excel, and prosper. That leaves us with about 90-96% of the rest who (socialistically) may graduate from high school but remain "
Phenomenal illiterate".
Let me make this clear:
By "phenomenal illiterate" we mean that a person who reads a simple pharmaceutical prescription is
UNABLE to follow properly its order! In some countries around the (educated) world this percentage is ENORMOUS and (IMHO) unacceptable! People like you (and me) may as well graduate and go further to higher levels of education - even become educators themselves; but that's because YOU (and I) WANTED to. The system has boldly failed to incorporate with the many; people like you (and me) are (sadly) scarce minorities.
Yes; the internet fulfills a great addition and it's a great accelerator. The thing is that even though universities have uploaded their classes online, the main question is FOR WHOM? One must be WILLING to get in the process. Most people only read the headlines out of a newspaper or a website and this is because the current educational system has forced them to hate reading (or if you prefer; didn't do the proper things so they like it).
Bottom line: College & University education. We produce fools with degrees. Michio Kaku has once said it in a TEDx speech and I couldn't agree more. I want to change this while I'm at it. I want to be the crazy one (hint: signature on the left), among the other "logical" partners and colleagues that think "IT CANNOT BE DONE" - Well... "I CAN CHANGE IT". To do so I must comply with the one and only truth; and this is it:
The educational system is a bust; this is MY fault. Student's have nothing (or next to nothing) to do with it.
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