It's been said that the 8th grade graduation test in the 1800 could not be passed by many college graduates. What has happened to our country? Perhaps we have allowed the education system to slowing disintegrate. As our country has become more focused on getting the most stuff and not what can I do to be better. We are now evaluating this decline in education and attempting to create some way out. Program improvement or NVLB has been initiated by the government to turn this broken system around. Unfortunately, creating an environment in which children want to learn is not the goal.
What is the focus of our country? I think the intentions were good, but teachers are now having to teach for tests and teach for learning. Where is this going to bring us? Frustration and failure is seem to be the result. Kids are graduating with no higher success rate. Just a couple generations back, there was not much discussion about leaving and going anywhere else. Traveling seemed like a luxury that only the rich could afford.
There is a much greater desire to travel and learn new things about different cultures. Teenagers today are looking to go oversees for the experience of it all and not just the education. There is a renewed appreciation for other cultures, however; I do think that there is somewhat of a phobia due to the high immigrant influx.
Students are able to respect others for many differences in opinion and religion, not like out parents. I think there is a level of fear when you start discussion the induction of a non-citizen most likely because of the large push to protect our borders.
I think that we need to remember that the strength of a nation is only as strong as its weakest member. We need to remember that knowledge is power, not just your typical knowledge but the kind of knowledge that you attain only after you study and regenerate information. Our kids are so hungry for real learning. The kind of learning that changes lives.
I think that to assume that American would be fooled into loving another religion or state of beliefs is to assume that Americans are not smart enough to be able to identify a bad religion. If we spend our time to educate the right way then we should not haveto worry too much about their decisions once they are grown.
You could not be any more correct, I think exactly the same way. The fact that the schooling system is mostly based on learning for the tests that are given from a week to week bases or an every 3 or 4 weeks bases is foolish. Students are only cramming for tests now and not learning what they should be learning. They are constantly studying, memorizing material that will be on the test, rather than learning the material just of the sake of wanting to learn and knowing something new.
ReplyDeleteIf there were more opportunities for students to go oversees and have the experience of a lifetime with people of other cultures, people now a days would be geniuses, not only because they would learn a different language and learn about the culture but perhaps their ideas would open up more.