The "Whatever" podcast is an appropriate name. "Whatever" became a popular "attitudinal" response in the 90s(?) to a question or minorly confounding situation. It usually meant, "I don't know and I don't care" and that's the end of the thought process. The irony is the generation that walks around with a computer in their hands is not smarter. If they consider education only in terms of ROI as far as a job is concerned, they sadly lack appreciation for great ideas in the past or for their own future. We can see how lemmings are made and they will become the proles. Here's your trophy.
Americans wear a number of hats. We are wage earners, consumers, parents, and citizens. But our education system fails to teach the last two. Instead it concentrates on perfecting the wage earners to create consumers. Almost nothing is taught to create smart voters or great parents.
No wonder our youth thinks they know everything necessary if they can receive a paycheck and exist in America. What else is important to them?
Think about it. We are born consumers and start at day one being efficient at consuming. By age 18 we are legally declared to be eligible to vote and graduate high school. Some go to work immediately, others choose higher education, but none are taught civics or parenting any longer. Our youth has been taught to wear two hats and figure out the other two. A fifth hat might be investor. This is a subset of consumer, but it is actually a subset of wage earners since we all hope to retire someday and we need to have a nest egg socked away so we can remain a consumer after we give up our wage earner status. Shouldn’t that be taught in high school?
School should be a religious experience. The glory of God’s world creates compound growth by design and we are all a part of it. Investing in your own future allows you to compound your life into a sustainable being. Isn’t that what our education system should achieve? It has to teach us to wear a lot of different hats efficiently.
Education has been on the decline in the United States for decades. As a former teacher I can attest to the pressure put on teachers by administrators to pass students, regardless of their performance, for various reasons, from unhappy parents to just pushing them through the system so there is less retention. It looks much better if you can proclaim that 99% of students pass. No one likes to broadcast their failures, esp parents. And the principal looks much better - if students are not being "successful" in his school, he will never move up the food chain towards superintendent, or whatever he/she has as a personal goal. The goal of having well educated graduates often becomes secondary.
The "Whatever" podcast is an appropriate name. "Whatever" became a popular "attitudinal" response in the 90s(?) to a question or minorly confounding situation. It usually meant, "I don't know and I don't care" and that's the end of the thought process. The irony is the generation that walks around with a computer in their hands is not smarter. If they consider education only in terms of ROI as far as a job is concerned, they sadly lack appreciation for great ideas in the past or for their own future. We can see how lemmings are made and they will become the proles. Here's your trophy.
Americans wear a number of hats. We are wage earners, consumers, parents, and citizens. But our education system fails to teach the last two. Instead it concentrates on perfecting the wage earners to create consumers. Almost nothing is taught to create smart voters or great parents.
No wonder our youth thinks they know everything necessary if they can receive a paycheck and exist in America. What else is important to them?
Think about it. We are born consumers and start at day one being efficient at consuming. By age 18 we are legally declared to be eligible to vote and graduate high school. Some go to work immediately, others choose higher education, but none are taught civics or parenting any longer. Our youth has been taught to wear two hats and figure out the other two. A fifth hat might be investor. This is a subset of consumer, but it is actually a subset of wage earners since we all hope to retire someday and we need to have a nest egg socked away so we can remain a consumer after we give up our wage earner status. Shouldn’t that be taught in high school?
School should be a religious experience. The glory of God’s world creates compound growth by design and we are all a part of it. Investing in your own future allows you to compound your life into a sustainable being. Isn’t that what our education system should achieve? It has to teach us to wear a lot of different hats efficiently.
Education has been on the decline in the United States for decades. As a former teacher I can attest to the pressure put on teachers by administrators to pass students, regardless of their performance, for various reasons, from unhappy parents to just pushing them through the system so there is less retention. It looks much better if you can proclaim that 99% of students pass. No one likes to broadcast their failures, esp parents. And the principal looks much better - if students are not being "successful" in his school, he will never move up the food chain towards superintendent, or whatever he/she has as a personal goal. The goal of having well educated graduates often becomes secondary.
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