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09/27/10(Mon)14:36 No.2394351>Obama thinks time spent in school has anything to do with it
I
agree, but at the same time disagree. The problem is that the quality
of education in this country is terrible, mostly because of terrible
teachers not being fired, people being taught to memorize (for
standardized tests) rather than to actually learn, and teachers using
their positions to preach political positions (both the left and the
right are guilty of this). If we were to go back to a system where you
could actually fire shitty teachers, put less of an emphasis on
standardized testing, and fire anybody that preaches political
positions, I can guarantee that the quality of education would go up.
But
that is not the only problem, kids these days do not care about
learning. Kids take pride in ignorance now-a-days, and would rather sit
on their computer/TV/video game console than crack open a book and read,
or learn what is being taught. In part I blame the media for this (such
as MTV, etc.) where they show school as a terrible terrible place, and
people who enjoy learning are shown as undesirable elements(aka
nerds/geeks). This embeds the image that learning in school is a bad
thing, and that you should treat school as a place of social gathering
rather than a learning institution (why do you think people care more
about partying in college than learning?).
TL;DR Schools are
fucked because the teachers are shit, and the students could not care
less about acquiring any sort of education to begin with. |
