Comments on: Education In General

By: Seth's World

Seth's World — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:46:19 +0000

And also, if the student hasn’t achieved some standard level, I think the system has an interest to keep the student on the road to that level of education.

I don’t mean to say everyone needs to understand calculus. But we all need enough education to understand when calculus is the correct tool to solve a problem.

By: steph

steph — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:28:44 +0000

An ideal education system needs to cater for different strengths and weaknesses and learning abilities of its students. A good education system needs to provide enough teachers to keep the student teacher ration low. I had a pretty good broad education with well educated, critical thinking and capable teachers, a non american education. It gave me special opportunities to excel in areas of particular interest.

By: Seth's World

Seth's World — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:24:58 +0000

I would agree with that especially because I do not think college is the only way to get educated. Educated is poorly defined by me and in most places I look.

What I want to do now is come up with a defined ideal education which focuses on people having enough knowledge of critical thinking, the history of current political themes, knowing how to dig into research, and even debate skills. I don’t care what people think as long as they do that thinking with quality processes.

When I get that ideal figured out, I can take a stab at the problem of how to get more people to that level and how to measure how many people are there now. This isn’t my area of expertise but looking at my political environment, it might not be anyone’s area of expertise and somebody should step up.

By: steph

steph — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:18:34 +0000

The problem is that according to Gallop polls, there isn’t a significant difference in the percentage of those without degrees who don’t believe in education and those with degrees. I saw them a couple of months ago (you could look them up I’m sure) – something like a shift of less than ten percent. But when you consider the quality of american education and that great big chunk they call the bible belt and all those theological seminaries some of which require confession to statements of faith – biblical inerrancy etc…. what a gloomy gloomy picture. Time to re-evalutate and reform the education system!