My children come home with about a tenth of the homework that I did. Now dont get me wrong, I think taking up the bulk of someone's childhood with redundant education does not seem like an efficient use of their intelligence but now it's even less then that.
Independent thought is more dicouraged than ever and people, by and large actually know more and understand less.
Mainstream education is not about excelling, its about conforming.
http://www.ted.com/talks/annmarie_thomas_squishy_circuits.html
ReplyDeleteIf only more teachers were like this.