I was inspired by a SnagFilm
documentary that I watched today.
The subject matter is one that was
the education system
in the USA which has been a
reoccurring itch in my thoughts.
The argument has been usually
focused on the teachers,
which isn't a bad place to focus
the responsibility.
However, reforming the flawed system
would prove to be more benevolent
when the focus would be on the
children. I have noticed that many people
who are in the education system
do indeed focus on the children.
However, reframing the focus
once more would be more helpful
instead of getting tangled in
systematic organizational leaderships
and hierarchies and board
committees and stuff tend to turn into a
blender of a bunch of stuff, and then
the primary reason for it is lost in the mix
of all of the ingredients.
Flipping the pyramid as counterintuitive as it
sounds is a more practical approach.
Someone used that analogy to describe the
digital age and information age
where it's individual focused..
I'm not promoting this system
at all, but if the education system
is to stay then it needs to keep up with the times.
the focus should be on the individual children as
how do they learn best?
I personally am against the education system as a
whole, but if you insist to keep it then flip the pyramid
start from the individual child and work your way up to
the schools, teachers, administration, and whatever comes after that.
The greatest flaw of the education system, even with its early
foundation is that not everyone is expected to succeed.
That is made evident in the grading scale A through F,
everyone’s expected to fail. This makes sense because
we are human and we are prone to error; however this already
creates an expectation that only a certain group of people will succeed,
get straight A’s, this creates a pattern of certain extremes. The straight A kids and the D&F failures these paradigms have an unfortunate repetitive pattern like a trend which can be traced all the way back to favoritism and this flawed perception of Darwinian Evolution Theories applied to people’s ability to learn: “survival of the fittest” this doesn't account for a person’s ability to achieve or be successful because someone believed in them, encouraged them, and didn’t give up on them until they succeeded. Einstein would have never been a successful scientist hadn’t his mother believed in him until he
succeeded academically.
Essentially what it all boils down to,
is people in the current education system that
that truly care about the youth and coming generation
enough to face the truth and reality that the current
education system is inherently flawed and need of great
renovation and reconstruction.
I’ve always been taught that KNOWLEDGE is POWER,
but what we’re seeing in this nation is the lack of belief
in the POWER that KNOWLEDGE has to inspire a child
to not join a gang, sell drugs, become a stripper, go to jail,
or live a life that is void of real substance that will help an
individual to live well for themselves and thrive in society.
Again this is an itchy thought that I haven’t really resolved
in doing way with, because it constantly resurfaces.
Perhaps one day children themselves will know their own
intrinsic and extrinsic value, and they will hopefully pursue
knowledge regardless of the system it’s presented in.
