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Access to a world of infinite information has changed how we communicate, process information, and think. Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones. Innovation, creativity, and independent thinking are increasingly crucial to the global economy.
And yet the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else. (In 1899, William T. Harris, the US commissioner of education, celebrated the fact that US schools had developed the "appearance of a machine," one that teaches the student "to behave in an orderly manner, to stay in his own place, and not get in the way of others.") We don't openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and "pacing guides" that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers.
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That's why a new breed of educators, inspired by everything from the Internet to evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and AI, are inventing radical new ways for children to learn, grow, and thrive. To them, knowledge isn't a commodity that's delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students' own curiosity-fueled exploration. Teachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another. They are creating ways for children to discover their passion—and uncovering a generation of geniuses in the process.
Good, long article on how education could be reinvented for the 21st century.
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Monday August 24 2015, @02:25PM
TL;DR but here is a qualified guess:
- this works only on people who do not see their own shortcomings
- this works only on people who have very easy to get self esteem
- this works only on people who do not fret on the phenomenon of "understanding"
and lastly:
- this works only on people who never leave the lab.
kind of like lab only teraflop cpu on 15W tdp...
I think, good scientists and engineers have a lot in common with very good military personnel.
The reason is, that the mechanism that unlinks/attenuates the perception of the self and the perception of others are as good for combat as it is for science.
Example:
I can let go of the self, and code for many hours, or let go of the self and fight until I die.
I can let go of the self, and study a blueprint until it is in my head, and I can manipulate it in 3D...
Or I can let go of the self and others deaths and study a map and reports of the battlefield until I can see it clearly in my head, full with the oceans of blood and the clouds ravens...
Moral: not all the people that evolution sent to the aid of humanity "romantic" from a corporate culture viewpoint.
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax