02-24-2010, 02:38 PM
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The gigantic horrible lie about education
http://www.perrymarshall.com/gigantic-horrible-lie/
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In public education there's an idea that there are certain things everyone is supposed to know in Kindergarten. Then there's some other things all the kids are supposed to learn in first grade and some more things in 2nd grade and so on.
Then when you finally graduate from high school, you know all the stuff you're "supposed to know."
How's that plan been working for you, anyway?
What capability does a high school kid possess on the day he crosses the stage with his diploma at his graduation ceremony?
Generally, he possesses the ability to get a $7 per hour job at Wal-Mart or TGI Friday's.
Wow. What a milestone that is, after 13 years of academic achievement. Really inspires you to do what the principal was droning about at the graduation ceremony ? strive to be a student for the rest of your life.
No wonder most people spend the next 40 years of their colorless existence watching re-runs of 3rd Rock from the Sun.
OK, so here's the problem with the "this is the list of things everybody should know" theory:
It turns living, breathing, unique human beings into commoditized, dehumanized hunks of flesh. 140 pounds of human capital. Where your highest aspiration is to get a few more right answers on the test than everyone else in the class. Where everyone knows how to do all the same things and compete with 100 other people for the same dumb job.
If the very thought of that makes you want to run out of the room screaming, good. It's a sign the beast hasn't gouged every last ounce of self-respect out of your soul.
Rage against the machine.
When you watched Morpheus offer Neo the red pill and the blue pill and Neo took the red pill, you said to yourself, he's right baby, you better believe he's right. I know, cuz I took the red pill myself, and yessiree Bob, the rabbit hole goes deep?.
Imagine, incubating your children in a dark cavernous mindfarm where their curiosity and ambition are snuffed out for the purpose of nourishing some bulbous impersonal machine.
Most people, after 13 to 17 years in the educational meat grinder, are firmly convinced that 5% of their class is an elite group that's superior to everyone else, and the rest of us are doomed to fight over the scraps. Life on the wrong side of the 80/20 tracks. That's Just The Way It Is, mourns the Bruce Hornsby song.
I don't look at it that way. It's a lie.
This is how it really is:
If you apply ANY test to ANY group of people, it's gonna shake down to 80/20. Doesn't matter if it's history or math or Pokemon or soccer or belly dancing or model trains, 20% of the people have 80% of the capability.
But the top girl in math is rarely the top girl in belly dancing and the top soccer player is rarely the #1 guy in Pokemon.
When people are empowered to pursue their own uniqueness, almost all of them are a genius at something.
So the most important thing your kid can know is: He has the potential to be a genius at something. He needs to believe he's got something special inside.
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