What SHOULD be taught in schools?

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Not sure.

I don't like a lot about education in that it feels a bit too much like indoctrination. And I think I'm not the only one. I feel a little silly for saying this, but I feel like sandbox mmos and online communities almost taught me more about how things work than classes did. It was easy to learn in my own way at my own pace and see dynamics for myself, rather than having them explained to me from another's perspective. And explore for myself.

look at these kid entrepreneurs. Lots of them ended up starting a business just by doing the extremely natural human activity of noticing something that was a problem, or something that could help more people than themselves, and making something out of it.

Sometimes I feel "education" should be less about telling students what to think or encouraging the reading of a certain cannon, and more about just supporting natural exploratory behaviors.

I also think we keep people as "children" for too long. Let people work. Admit that people are, in many ways, well on their way to "grown up" by 14 or so. Stop keeping people in indoctrination forever. Let people learn through work and living in the world. Let people start building to support a family so they can start having babies in their early 20s like is biologically ideal.

Idk. I haven't thought this all through. So maybe those aren't good ideas. But I think there's some truth to what I'm saying here.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is indoctrination. It's literally obedience training. It's based off the Prussian Schooling Model, which was designed to create military obedience, after Prussia lost the Battle of Jena in 1806 because of poor obedience. America then re-tooled this successful Prussian Schooling Model to the industrial era, to create obedient workers. And that's literally the school system we have today. Any learning that occurs is strictly incidental, and I don't mean that in a joking way. They want the people smart enough to run the machines, but not smart enough to question the increasingly shittier conditions they're forced to endure.