There is no education system that can teach someone to think. Either they will, or they won't. The education system can give those who are capable the tools they need to not have to re-invent the wheel. The rest can only be made to be (hopefully) functional enough to do what the thinkers want them to do. It has been this way forever - it's the human condition.
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > The goal of education is learning how to think. Thinking requires facts >> but education is not just learning facts. Comments like this imply that >> our education system isn't working. >> > > Sadly, it has not been so for some decades. > > The goal of the current ejamacashun sistem is to turn out good little borg > who follow orders from our brave leader. > > It started with "consolidation" > Moved to centralized financing > then to Federal control and manipulation > and so it goes... > around the bowl and down the hole > > > -- OK Don NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens! *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
