Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (248832)	4/17/2002 4:48:37 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

You seem to be trying to justify your own failure with your own kids-and looking like a fool in the process, and should be expected...

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (248832)	4/17/2002 4:53:37 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

It is necessary to have a decent regard for data. Some of it can be looked up as required, but some of it should be second- nature, so that you are not adrift in a sea of reference material. Besides, most of school is spent when children are not neurologically developed to the point of handling higher- order abstraction. One should make sure that instruction is age appropriate, and reliable. For most of school, until the later grades of high school and college, teaching facts and skills is more important than encouraging "independent thought". As they are more capable of reflection, assignments should begin to challenge them in that direction, for example, with papers employing research and interpretation.......

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (248832)	4/17/2002 7:06:20 PM
From: David R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

RE: They love rote memorization of facts No, they love rote memorization of propaganda. There is a certain amount of memorization that must accompany any useful education. Lawyers must memorize legal precedents. Doctors must memorize anatomy. Software engineers must memorize language syntax and technology details. All, however, must have the ability to think critically in order to use these facts to any useful purpose. Modern education provides neither. RE:Independent thought and ability to learn is discouraged. Wrong again. Critical thinking is the enemy of totalitarianism. This is the problem with modern education. The emphasis is on "independent thought", and no critical thinking skills are provided so that these "independent thinkers" can critic their own thoughts, and sift out the nonsense. Witness the ever-increasing use of ad-hominem attacks even among scholars. This was once unthinkable. Ideas were debated, based on their merits. "rote memorization" is the ad-hominem attack used by the modern educational elite to diminish any critics of our current system; a system that produces high school graduates, 30% of which are functionally illiterate.