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Getting rid of standardized tests and increasing an emphasis on critical thinking!
Memorizing is not learning, we must learn concepts and learn to apply them to real life situtations. There is too much emphasis on rote memory and not enough on the learning process and the thinking process.
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critical thinking education
Laurens Rademakers 50+
I fully agree with Brittney, but I would add: there's not enough "practise" either. There are bio-engineers who study plants for 6 years without ever having seen a tree, so to speak. All senses must contribute to the learning process. When young people come out of education, they're often sense-less (literally) zombies, who have forgotten that they have a body.
A new educational model would be based on knowledge derived from learning processes and on practical knowledge by going out to look, feel, touch, hear, taste, smell and make things.
Finally, I think some form of "contemplation" (ritual repetitiveness of certain important things) is also important, as an antidote against neurotic forms of learning. Like the old monks in the monasteries, who learned, prayed and gardened. The praying was important as a form of meditation, to make "warm and calm" people out of monks. We could use a modern variant of this.
Dain Brammage
From what little exposure I have had to it, the Khan School model seems brilliant and very effective. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html
Krisztián Pintér 200+
or you propose that standardized tests must be banned, and the parents that wants it, should not be able to have it? do you want to impose your values on everyone? do you imply that you are right, and others have to follow?
Brittney Stewart
You can have standardized testing, but why would you want to?
Krisztián Pintér 200+
lynn eschbach 30+