Education paradigm... How would you?

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Since there was a "How would you fix over population?" I thought I'd ask this? It's connected too that question but I feel this deserves it's own section. Everyone here went through school, I believe. A lot of people should have ideas of whats being done wrong socially, parental, educationally, or at least wrong for you. Or Idea's of successful procedures that resulted in good outcomes. Of course each person needs their own customized personal guidance, no two are the same.

I am a highly visual and audio-dependent person, I learn best from watching something as opposed to staring at unmoving letters for extended periods of time (though I do want to change this in myself)...

-My suggestion would be to adapt the education to a media format, similar to many youtube mini-lesson such as "crashcourse" and "scishow" channels.

-As well the lessening of the value of cultural identity, and shifting it to a more world inclusive view, such as the involvement of other cultures in each others growth. At the very least the way it's done now (in California) needs to be reaccessed and less sugar coated. (American history was repeated vague things about the emancipation proclamation, George Washington, slavery for around half a semester (I've learned more significant things about slavery and discrimination from net, movies, news, and games than in school) afterwards... I"m drawing a blank, something about American novelist).

-As stated in the video, the elimination of the factory line settings in school, and more focused on the individuals ability, setting students in areas around their capability (This would have helped me a lot more in school than Ritalin). Of course I'm aware that this could lead to discrimination, that's why...

-I believe children physiology, psychology, and development should be studied more, and we should be prioritizing more factors of intelligences than memory and problem solving. That creativity needs more focus than it gets, for example divergence thinking stated in the video.

-Each person excels in their own way, this should be addressed earlier than college, much earlier.

-The inclusion of other cultures art, not just famous historical European art. This includes modern art of other cultures. As well as more than drawn and sculpted art, I remember, when I was a kid, of a course where they studied cartoons that tackle and carry political, social, cultural, economic, ect effects.

-Switch to the metric system, theirs no reason to hold on to standard...

-I really feel different courses can be combined to make things easier to learn. I'm taking a drawing and anatomy class at the moment, and after spending 8-9 hours straight drawing a skeletons back, I won't forget it anytime soon, next week muscles. Giving some more hands on experiences, involving the student, would make things easier to remember and comprehend. Another example would be political/social cartoons of other countries for modern history or cultural studies.

-More commercials directed to children (on children channels) promoting intelligence, and less on frivolous toys that strip creativity from the users (hot wheels/legos pre-built structures, I still have my first set of a box of basic legos I built into a thousand different things as a child (including poorly built Gundams)).

-More considerations in literature, story has too keep interest and doesn't have to be a classic, more choices for students to read independently would be good.

I probably have more, I'm about to pass out though. So anyone, give me ideas, views, problems, errors I have not realize or considered. For example social interactions between students, which at the moment I'm drawing a blank on (bullying/discrimination). Changing the teachers methods and views. Parents involvement in the process. The difference of education based off location. Medication and its effects. ~out~

Edit, didn't realize the video never worked.

#1 thing that I think definitely has to change: The admittance rate.

Too many dumbasses (I am not kidding) go to all these schools and honestly, they don't belong there. I was in classes where over 80% didn't properly graduate and at least 50% just got the bare minimum. The United States gives too many chances.

I also agree that in college they should just concentrate on your major, but no, in order to leech off some extra money, they force you to take general education. That really has to be done away with.

However, cultural studies should be done lightly and only reinforced in that specialization.

I like the cut of your jib.



There is a lot of information to throw at the kids when covering a world history of 6,000 years and a class can only move as fast as the slowest student. When I moved from Iowa to Georgia, the difference in the schools was glaring. I learned in 4th grade in Iowa what they were teaching 5th graders in Georgia. My class size was also smaller in Iowa as I lived in the middle of corn/soybean country. Hell, the town was small enough I could ride a bike from my house on the outskirts of the town to the school on the other side of town in 30 minutes.



There is a lot of resistance towards any education reform from the United Federation of Teachers. Attempts to change anything beyond "throw more money at it" have been staunchly opposed by the teacher's union. Even when we try to adopt a more European style where money for public schools follows the child rather than being sent to the school regardless if a child moves is blocked. Any legislative efforts to create charter schools or expand private school options are blocked as well by the union.



Rather than focus on "culture" we should focus the efforts on disciplines that result in tangible effects on our society such as engineers. The infrastructure of this country is falling apart and "culture" isn't going to create the people needed to fix a problem.



Teach it, use it but, don't discard Imperial entirely as it still has it's uses, especially for baking and a few other things that don't translate well into metric.

You should look into "school vouchers" and the controversy over that. A Cato Institute study found that public schools spend 93% more than the median private schools per pupil. The opponents dislike school voucher idea because they put government schools in competition with private schools. Others argue that government schools spend more per pupil because they have more children with special needs or behavioral issues, etc. It's just a big kerfuffle over the whole educational reform bit.

Also school boards tend to block a lot of charter schools, private schools and home schooling. Mostly because sanctioning such things would erode their authority over those in such private education facilities.

This intrigues me, especially the video. Taking into consideration of an organisable and easily replicable system, how exactly would a "New School" work?

This is a bit hard for my head to get around, but from a perspective of a child how would it work? Would there be grades? And how would we be able to measure them in competence in each subject, if at all? How differently would teachers work? Or would there be tutors teaching every child individualy instead?

Let's say i'm in "first" grade, i would imagine that i would have classmates, and that we would have a something like a boardroom where we would meet and chat, and have meetings together. I would imagine classes would be much like "clubs" where you can decide which club you wish to join or try out. The "freshmen" would then be shown and advertised to by the "senior" members of each "club" to join their own.

Say i liked the Math Club and was piqued in interest of numbers and shapes, there we would be given a book to start with, and in order to get another one or to level up, we would need to gain a number of "points" . Harder questions give you more points, easier questions give you less points, and an average questions give you average points.
Thus you would gain the incentive to answer the medium/harder questions first. With each upgrade, you would be given more than one books, thus "branching" would occur.

Math club would be easy to imagine, but what about Sciences, English or even the Arts? Imagining this sort of "school" is sorta fun, any ideas?

Dumbasses sometimes, with proper teaching, can blossom into smartasses.

However, yes, such students "forced" to move ahead before they have mastered the level they are in, suffer and do poorly: why do we expect any less? What needs to happen is for us to examine why such students ARE NOT soaking up knowledge, and work as a society to fix the roots of this. And that goes far deeper than school, so no one wants to tackle that topic.

That is a good way to fix some, however, there are those who just loathe being there and waste time and money for other students who want to be there.

There needs to be a bit of a revamp in the education system, I know teachers and professors who really know how to teach a class but are held back due to "standards" and "only teach them this", this is where stuff like the SAT and state and national exams show how varied the schools are in levels.

In my humble opinion the current system or at least the ones I have experienced are quite bad. However, I feel embarrased for critized them and not being able to bring up any solutions to the table.

Of course I can say the (I believe) obvious stuff like:
- Students passing every course without really knowing the basics of each subject / module.
- Students not showing any interest at all during lectures and distracting or disturbing other students who are genuinely interested.
- Students making "group projects" awful experiences for the students that actually work.
- Teachers / Turos not really giving support and help to their students when they need it, let alone stuff like answering e-mails or similar.
- Each year, the systems evolves towards a one leaving students by themselves with(out really) the neccesary tools to achieve the expected goals, such as Bologna System. This is bad because Students (technically supervised) are not supervised, feel lost and normally that ends for the student doing nothing at all or in case he/she does it, it is a low quality work.
- Sometimes, there is too much material within a lecture for the student to fully understand and comprehend, whereas in others is the other way around and the student get bored and "disconnects" from the lecture.
- Teachers / Tutors seem to don't know how to make the student engage in their lectures to make him/her interested in what he/she is teaching.

Well, I will stop there, since this type of list-thing could go on forever and I think that is not the point of the topic.

If I could make a change, would be:
- First, try on making an "Standard Level" of knowledge, like "What is supposed to be BASIC?" for an individual being so he/she can survive and learn on their own from that start. There is a HUGE difference on what is considered essential among every education institution, let alone states and countries.

- Second, try to assess students on different levels, such as, area of interest and skills, because there arent two equal students, let alone students with disabilities, who needs extra help and assitance.

- Third, start encouraging students to be proactive and reward them for that. I didn't feel rewarded at all when I did a good job because "I am supposed to do it", but instead, when I perform badly, I am "scolded" and the feedback I am given in return is way TOO OFTEN BS.

- Forth, stop ignoring "bad" students (low marks, not bad behavoir) and help them find their way or make them aware of their bad points so they can improve. Sometimes it is really difficult and it seems no one really cares about it.

- Fifth, start punishing stupid students (behavoir, such as bullying). I know this may seem racist (and honestly I might be for these kind of people), but I think, the rest don't deserve to be treated like we still see on nowadays news or on the internet.

And well, I think 5 points shold be enough for now, basicaly, because I don't think the system will change in the near future, not even in the mid term. But, as it is said, hope is the last thing you lose.

By the way, even in the art historical education field and professional field, this is STILL an issue. The Art Hist 101 canon included European and American art almost entirely, with sparse mentions of other continents' art.

I had to go until almost my senior year before even qualifying for "topic-focused" classes that discussed other nations' arts. Meanwhile, China was hundreds of years ahead of us all and no one mentions this, ever, in 101 situations. The term "non-Western" art irks those who have studied such arts for years: it continues to "other" any art that has not traditionally bee taught as "canon" to students. It continues to deem art of the most quality as coming from Anglo areas... when this is really not the case in the least.

However, for some countries, yes, the study of their art history (even by actual historians in said places, like Korea) is only just beginning both on a local and global educational level. There was about a mere 5 pages of Korean art history mentioned in my entire Asian art curriculum, as it has not historically been a focus for both Korea or the rest of the world. So, in some ways, the discipline is still expanding.

[color=#2e1a6b]I'd really like to see a form of digitized tutoring be the primary means of education. Its ability to adapt to each individual could even surpass real tutors themselves. This would also fulfill most of the OP's suggestions

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