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1 total messages Started by *Shintaro* Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:00
STATUS QUO EDUCATION BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Author: *Shintaro*
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:00
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Yes that is right, i am not one of the usual students who is going to go and
blow the normal brown goo from out my rear about how kids should not go
to school b/c of the dull curiculum (teachers hehehe note of that, school is
very boring for me i'll tell ya ;P) and non-job orientated (true there are a
few programs but not enough...sadly). welp my advocation is more on the lines
of that the school system is presently opressive and that homework is a sign
of this tyranny against the acedemic youthful minds of this world :)

1) conformity:  is bad... great nations such as the united states were not 
forged from the conformity of laws and expectations from the corrupt gov't.
I make an analagy along this lines b/c teachers and the administration of 
school's are very curropt and very obressive with their lessons.  By forcing
someone to turn in homework on a daily basis you are teaching them to conform
to the system, teaching them to become mindless masses of controlled thinkers
so they can spew forth the limited knowledge and ideals they learn in school 
with blind faith.  Little do they know that by conforming to the education system
they are destroying any possible chance of progression. 

historically proven most of the great achievments through the ages have come 
from free thinkers, on a religious level many of the great profits were sepereated
from the norm to go off and to ponder their new thoughts (although placed there
by divine intention of course).  On a political level, democracy was fromed from
people who didn't want to conform to the rule of a single monarch.  On a scientific
level, it was the free thinking of renisanse (sp?) men which has developed 
many of the technologies that have spawned the greatest discoveries and caused
human progression.

in conclution to this thought, by conforming to the turning in of homework 
(not saying doing homework is bad, b/c students must have a way to immediately
apply knowledge in order to inbed it into memerios, just turning in homework
is bad.)  you are causing students to conform to a system that will stop 
progression or at least slow it, and in a time such as critical as now when
the environment may be on the brink of disaster and with wide spread diseases
that are immune to anti-bodies are coming out we will need all the best minds
to be apt and able to provide us with new and radical solutions to them.

2) reform:  how to go about this you may be asking yourself.  Welp to go about
this massive reform from confroming to a system to thinking for your own isn't
as difficult as it may seem.  Of course you need math but to what extent, i 
think that a totally vocational type of education system will cause us to have
the best results worldwide.  One, it will teach people to become more efficient
at what they want.  Two, it will increase the moral of the students.

The next reform would have to be in manditory curriculim.  All places should
have homework yes, but as to the option of turning it in is up to the student,
now how would this work no one would do the work you are saying? well true,
but when test time comes and they pull an F (not as in fantastic, but as in
failing) they will soon seek a new way to improve this scores for success in the
world.  Teachers whould advice them to do their work not to FORCE them.  Allowing
students to do there own free teaching.  Also classroom discussion would be something
that would help greatly.  Teaching the proper way to write a sentense. or what
sin (a+b) equals is not something that is going to broaden the horrizon of peoples
lives.  We need to share opinions develop ideas and only then can we open our
minds and develop a better society.

now i know there are tons of flaws in this little preaching, and if you see
obvious ones i would love to advocate my opinion if not, please take into
consideration and if you have read this far thank you for reading.

sorry for any spelling errors, i know i have terrible spelling.

thanks again

Robert
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