the educational system does not want students to think; that would interfere with the narrative and obedience to groupthink that the educators want to instill in these kids.
This is a good writeup, btw. Saved and resteemed!
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I teach 4th grade and 5th grade and I in no way desire for my students to just be obedient pawns in society. I think education is slowly moving more towards developing critical thinking, at least I know that in my classroom on a daily basis my students have opportunity to work through problems. They have opportunity to gather and analyze data and then assess their information and come up with solutions on their own. If their solution is tested and found to not work, then they go back and try something new. What hurts educators the most, is that many times we have mandates placed upon us by people who have never taught and who have no idea what it takes to help children become successful, self-thinking members of society.
There are probably a lot of good teachers on the teaching level, but as you said they aren't the ones pushing Common Core
perfect example
It's great to hear that there are indeed such teachers out there thinking like this. But the problem is a problem of the system in general. Such lectures must be imbedded into the structure of educational system for a real change in society. Otherwise, only your students will be the lucky ones, and the students of other few teachers similar to you. I think if we really need this to spread to the overall society, there must take place a general reform.
I couldn't agree more.