People, especially pushy caring parents (especially South Korean or Ashkenazi Jewish), are doing things upside down. They should push their children to excel in the formal educational system (but not to the detriment of their psychological state), however, the current educational system is a useful maid of the super-rich that control the politicians and it is something that should be pushed as well.
We have scientifically based theories, yet we don’t use them. “Škola hrou” by Jan Amos Komenský is translated to English as “school as play” or “school by play.” Have you ever heard of it?
Do you know these? Behaviorism, social cognitive theory, neuroscience of learning, constructivism, information processing theory, cognitive learning processes, self-regulation, or motivation?
Don’t worry, most of the teachers, lawmakers and educational system officials have no applied knowledge of them either.
Pupils or students should be taught mathematics (even in a creative way), programming (ditto), critical thinking, cognitive biases, formal fallacies, nowadays analytical philosophy. Making your own Access databases, and your own Excel blueprints. Painting is also a good thing for creativity, maybe producing your own music. The school should develop and extend your IQ, creativity, talents, and critical thinking. Team building, emotional quotient may also be useful.
The scholars should be able to change the system of within. They tell you it can produce people entirely fit for the economy. Guess what? I don’t think so. And by the way, they don’t tell you how to really understand politics (even with the background eminences, and interest groups), they don’t want you to think critically.
Also, the schoolwork should be designed in the same precise way the IQ tests are compiled to boost children’s IQs. This science, along with subjects boosting creativity and talents, would uplift school standards by a few standard deviations.
But no! Let’s get back to the history: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and China, rote memorization played a crucial role in education. Students were required to memorize religious texts, poetry, philosophical teachings, and other important cultural knowledge. It same goes with the Middle Ages educational system and it was maintained until the 20th century, when educational theorists began to question the effectiveness of rote memorization as the primary method of learning.
The parents push children to excel in this outdated, obsolete, super-rich serving system that got stuck centuries ago in such a vigorous manner that if they pushed the system the same way, a miracle would happen.
And I am deeply afraid those strict Ashkenazi Jewish or South Korean parents don’t have any clue about what I am telling you now. And guess why? Because they were bred in the educational system as well!
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