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		<title>By: Want to ACTUALLY learn!</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-328441</link>
		<dc:creator>Want to ACTUALLY learn!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What I find to be the worst thing is how we&#039;re forced to excel at things we&#039;re not good at instead of focusing on what we&#039;re talented at and enjoy. What I mean is, not everyone is good at everything-not everyone can be a scientist,not everyone can be a writer! Yet we&#039;re forced to learn these things and be graded on how good we are at them, even though THERE IS NO POINT IN US TRYING TO LEARN THEM! I&#039;m not good at physics. I will never do ANYTHING to do with it. SO really, why the years of drumming physics into my head and trying to pass tests when I could be focusing on my talents and grow and become smarter? This way, think about it-we&#039;d have better doctors, psychologists etc, because instead of spending time trying to pass other things they hate and are not good at, they can learn more about what interests them! IT MAKES SENSE!

THERE IS A SCHOOL THAT DOES THIS-IT&#039;S CALLED THE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL. HOWEVER, BECAUSE MY COUNTRY IS SO FRIKKEN BEHIND, WE DON&#039;T HAVE ONE HERE :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What I find to be the worst thing is how we&#8217;re forced to excel at things we&#8217;re not good at instead of focusing on what we&#8217;re talented at and enjoy. What I mean is, not everyone is good at everything-not everyone can be a scientist,not everyone can be a writer! Yet we&#8217;re forced to learn these things and be graded on how good we are at them, even though THERE IS NO POINT IN US TRYING TO LEARN THEM! I&#8217;m not good at physics. I will never do ANYTHING to do with it. SO really, why the years of drumming physics into my head and trying to pass tests when I could be focusing on my talents and grow and become smarter? This way, think about it-we&#8217;d have better doctors, psychologists etc, because instead of spending time trying to pass other things they hate and are not good at, they can learn more about what interests them! IT MAKES SENSE!</p>
<p>THERE IS A SCHOOL THAT DOES THIS-IT&#8217;S CALLED THE DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL. HOWEVER, BECAUSE MY COUNTRY IS SO FRIKKEN BEHIND, WE DON&#8217;T HAVE ONE HERE <img src='http://encefalus.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Baylee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Baylee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know how it feels I&#039;m anemic which means I get sick easy and when I get sick I get it bad and the teacher gets people to make fun of me it&#039;s getting really bad they already made fun of me for my country accient TT*TT</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know how it feels I&#8217;m anemic which means I get sick easy and when I get sick I get it bad and the teacher gets people to make fun of me it&#8217;s getting really bad they already made fun of me for my country accient TT*TT</p>
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		<title>By: Augustina Degen</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-264622</link>
		<dc:creator>Augustina Degen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I learned a lot of information in your article. I am looking forward to your new articles, they will definitely benefit a lot of beginner like myself! many thanks!</description>
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		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-264446</link>
		<dc:creator>bridge faucet kitchen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-256376</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-219322</link>
		<dc:creator>Person XXX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-209977</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>stop the FUCKIN school I hate the school !!!</description>
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		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-194626</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: theguideofslots</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-178975</link>
		<dc:creator>theguideofslots</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Howdy! I know this is kinda off topic however , I&#039;d figured I&#039;d ask. Would you be interested in exchanging links or maybe guest authoring a blog post or vice-versa? My blog covers a lot of the same subjects as yours and I believe we could greatly benefit from each other. If you&#039;re interested feel free to shoot me an email. I look forward to hearing from you! Wonderful blog by the way!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Howdy! I know this is kinda off topic however , I&#8217;d figured I&#8217;d ask. Would you be interested in exchanging links or maybe guest authoring a blog post or vice-versa? My blog covers a lot of the same subjects as yours and I believe we could greatly benefit from each other. If you&#8217;re interested feel free to shoot me an email. I look forward to hearing from you! Wonderful blog by the way!</p>
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		<title>By: cheat Roulette</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-154332</link>
		<dc:creator>cheat Roulette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also ich bin der Meinung dies ist   lediglich eine Mode</description>
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		<title>By: G Michael Moore</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-139135</link>
		<dc:creator>G Michael Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 05:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This conversation is a reflection of the kind of polarized thinking that a typical formal education produces. The polarity is something like this: freedom, self-expression and creativity vs memorization and the disciplined mastery of established knowledge bases. What is needed is the positive aspect of both things. If you get hung up on only one side of this polarity being the ticket, you end up with a crappy education. Both things are essential to a good education and, paradoxically, they support each other. Think of learning to play music. I think it was Coltrane who said &quot;First you learn the notes and then you just wail.&quot; Your wailing will suck if you haven&#039;t learned the notes. On the other hand, learn only the notes and your music will lack the passion that brings it to life. People here have rightly noted that much of the education system is tipped way too far towards structure and away from creative thinking (thus the big emphasis on standardized tests and the stigmatizing of kids who don&#039;t fit the mold). The solution is not, however, to abandon structure (like the correct use of spelling and grammar). The solution lies in teaching mastery in both domains. Structured learning (mathematics, classical literature, history, science, civics, etc.) coupled with an emphasis on using this knowledge base to synthesis new ideas and self-expression (art, theater, dance, personal growth, creative writing, social activism, etc.). Such an education cannot be forgotten, it becomes an integral part of the student&#039;s awareness and capacity for growth and mastery in any domain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This conversation is a reflection of the kind of polarized thinking that a typical formal education produces. The polarity is something like this: freedom, self-expression and creativity vs memorization and the disciplined mastery of established knowledge bases. What is needed is the positive aspect of both things. If you get hung up on only one side of this polarity being the ticket, you end up with a crappy education. Both things are essential to a good education and, paradoxically, they support each other. Think of learning to play music. I think it was Coltrane who said &#8220;First you learn the notes and then you just wail.&#8221; Your wailing will suck if you haven&#8217;t learned the notes. On the other hand, learn only the notes and your music will lack the passion that brings it to life. People here have rightly noted that much of the education system is tipped way too far towards structure and away from creative thinking (thus the big emphasis on standardized tests and the stigmatizing of kids who don&#8217;t fit the mold). The solution is not, however, to abandon structure (like the correct use of spelling and grammar). The solution lies in teaching mastery in both domains. Structured learning (mathematics, classical literature, history, science, civics, etc.) coupled with an emphasis on using this knowledge base to synthesis new ideas and self-expression (art, theater, dance, personal growth, creative writing, social activism, etc.). Such an education cannot be forgotten, it becomes an integral part of the student&#8217;s awareness and capacity for growth and mastery in any domain.</p>
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		<title>By: Alone Girl</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-130586</link>
		<dc:creator>Alone Girl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 14:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hi.i&#039;m frome iran</description>
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		<title>By: your mom</title>
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		<dc:creator>your mom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-67831</link>
		<dc:creator>Grafiktablett Test</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-51984</link>
		<dc:creator>the uk blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mariah Kirley</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-47097</link>
		<dc:creator>Mariah Kirley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi all, - stumbled upon this website inadvertently while searching round the net this afternoon, and delighted that I did! I like the style and design and colors, but I have to point out that I&#039;m having issues when it loads. I&#039;m making use of Camino 2 browser for mac, and the header fails to line up fully. i am confident I&#039;ve used exactly the same layout on a customer&#039;s website, but the menu seems alright on mine. I suspect the fault is at my end &amp; perhaps it&#039;s about time to upgrade!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all, &#8211; stumbled upon this website inadvertently while searching round the net this afternoon, and delighted that I did! I like the style and design and colors, but I have to point out that I&#8217;m having issues when it loads. I&#8217;m making use of Camino 2 browser for mac, and the header fails to line up fully. i am confident I&#8217;ve used exactly the same layout on a customer&#8217;s website, but the menu seems alright on mine. I suspect the fault is at my end &amp; perhaps it&#8217;s about time to upgrade!</p>
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		<title>By: eve</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-35553</link>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>then i am going to drop out not school is a great opportunity to learn why does school suck cause you have to wake up early I think that is the cause of your problem I mean without school let&#039;s say it wouldn&#039;t be pretty so those people how going to drop out don&#039;t I am in the fourth grade and I have learned a lot people say learning cost money but with public schools it doesn&#039;t cost anything SO PLEASE DON&#039;T DROP OUT YOU ARE OUR FUTURE AMERICANS SO LISTEN TO THIS IT&#039;S THE TRUTH THINK OF THE WORLD WITHOUT YOUR PEOPLE THAT HELP YOU PLEAASE LISTEN</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>then i am going to drop out not school is a great opportunity to learn why does school suck cause you have to wake up early I think that is the cause of your problem I mean without school let&#8217;s say it wouldn&#8217;t be pretty so those people how going to drop out don&#8217;t I am in the fourth grade and I have learned a lot people say learning cost money but with public schools it doesn&#8217;t cost anything SO PLEASE DON&#8217;T DROP OUT YOU ARE OUR FUTURE AMERICANS SO LISTEN TO THIS IT&#8217;S THE TRUTH THINK OF THE WORLD WITHOUT YOUR PEOPLE THAT HELP YOU PLEAASE LISTEN</p>
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		<title>By: nandini</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-26573</link>
		<dc:creator>nandini</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this is a great thought. the education syystem is making the student more and mmore impractical in life. they dont find any connection between the text books and personnel life. the freedom to think is made narrow in a particular fashion...this reminds me of pink floid&#039;s the wall.....the schools are made into factories.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is a great thought. the education syystem is making the student more and mmore impractical in life. they dont find any connection between the text books and personnel life. the freedom to think is made narrow in a particular fashion&#8230;this reminds me of pink floid&#8217;s the wall&#8230;..the schools are made into factories.</p>
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		<title>By: An outcast who became outlawed</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-24059</link>
		<dc:creator>An outcast who became outlawed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear people,

I see that idea&#039;s or diffused from reality. Some of you give their experiences. Others hatch into these experiences and others argument they need more votes and people to back up an other approach. Your just messing around. The people are divided by greed.

Since i was 3 years old i started to rebel against learning color pattern&#039;s. (which indirectly leads to racism) The names they given different colors. (for example i like brown or i like honey because it&#039;s yellow) I started to rebel against reading in quit. (disengaging an own opinion) Because that&#039;s way to create an own fantasy world. But besides that a fantasy is something close to a hidden agenda. Everything you read gives you negative or positive feedback. But since you read quietly you keep idea&#039;s about what you think a lot to yourself. These are some fundamentals i rebelled against. 

Some teachers saw what was happening at this time and they interfered when i was a little boy. They started to be tyrannical against me. Which is awful behavior against a little child. Suggesting to the other kids they could pick on me and making public fun of what they called my flaws. Hypocritical because they couldn&#039;t see their own pay-check greed inside there own eyes.

Therefor i spent a lot of years in suffering the horrors of a school system. Eventually i dropped to the lowest grade. Like many other kids do who are not obedient against a system they do not yet know or understand. (until today) 

After high school i went to college. It took me several years to reinforce myself and to come back from some horrors i met in high school. (mental and physical damages. Try to live more then 15 years in a environment where everyday hunderds of people project hate upon you.)

I started to be excellent in studying but didn&#039;t belong in a place where i had horrifying experiences. Excellent grades where the other side of the medallion for me. But i started to see the seriousness of what i had been through in high school and started to see that this college was doing the same in a more sneaky way of giving good interest this time. I been smashed over the ground and a lot of things where taken away from me before. And again it happened when they noticed i saw more of what was happening. I started to get a view not over my own path but also over the path of thousands of young children and young students. I almost took away my own life because there was haresment involved outside the school.

Teachers even suggest to the people of my dorm to harass and terrify me every day. Including breaking into my personal life and embarrassing experiences.  
  
These days i recognize school systems or any other systems of keeping people in line just to keep them obedient to social order and capitalistic principles. If your don&#039;t, everything is taken away from you. Even threats are hold against you or members of your family. Besides that thousands of other institutions try to make your life a living hell. You cant sleep, eat or even live without feeling a threat that can be caused against you. So far that you almost feel like you need to kill yourself. The reason why a lot of students kill themselves.

I learned to educate myself. I learned decent English and i learned different psychological mechanism&#039;s that this world has enclosed in itself. It&#039;s a horror to every kid, a death or a putting to sleep of what they really are and what they really think. Creating people with more then one face, but the one that&#039;s screaming all the time is the one left behind without a voice to speak, creating all kinds of illnesses witch are good for thousands of jobs to create to. 

And as the person who wrote this suggested. We create jobs out of misery and keep working till we drop and paradoxically. We react lazy to this type of shit and therefore we need to keep working harder en harder each day. Because where creating a loop that will cost us in labor and not life years. 

Now keep on discussing bullshit... I already told the bullies to sit and to listen to what i have learned through 20 years of misery. This time I&#039;m indulging myself to be an open book about the flaws of books and school which earn ton&#039;s of money expressing idea&#039;s from idiots who do not care about your pain, neither mine. But relax neither do i myself.

Greets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear people,</p>
<p>I see that idea&#8217;s or diffused from reality. Some of you give their experiences. Others hatch into these experiences and others argument they need more votes and people to back up an other approach. Your just messing around. The people are divided by greed.</p>
<p>Since i was 3 years old i started to rebel against learning color pattern&#8217;s. (which indirectly leads to racism) The names they given different colors. (for example i like brown or i like honey because it&#8217;s yellow) I started to rebel against reading in quit. (disengaging an own opinion) Because that&#8217;s way to create an own fantasy world. But besides that a fantasy is something close to a hidden agenda. Everything you read gives you negative or positive feedback. But since you read quietly you keep idea&#8217;s about what you think a lot to yourself. These are some fundamentals i rebelled against. </p>
<p>Some teachers saw what was happening at this time and they interfered when i was a little boy. They started to be tyrannical against me. Which is awful behavior against a little child. Suggesting to the other kids they could pick on me and making public fun of what they called my flaws. Hypocritical because they couldn&#8217;t see their own pay-check greed inside there own eyes.</p>
<p>Therefor i spent a lot of years in suffering the horrors of a school system. Eventually i dropped to the lowest grade. Like many other kids do who are not obedient against a system they do not yet know or understand. (until today) </p>
<p>After high school i went to college. It took me several years to reinforce myself and to come back from some horrors i met in high school. (mental and physical damages. Try to live more then 15 years in a environment where everyday hunderds of people project hate upon you.)</p>
<p>I started to be excellent in studying but didn&#8217;t belong in a place where i had horrifying experiences. Excellent grades where the other side of the medallion for me. But i started to see the seriousness of what i had been through in high school and started to see that this college was doing the same in a more sneaky way of giving good interest this time. I been smashed over the ground and a lot of things where taken away from me before. And again it happened when they noticed i saw more of what was happening. I started to get a view not over my own path but also over the path of thousands of young children and young students. I almost took away my own life because there was haresment involved outside the school.</p>
<p>Teachers even suggest to the people of my dorm to harass and terrify me every day. Including breaking into my personal life and embarrassing experiences.  </p>
<p>These days i recognize school systems or any other systems of keeping people in line just to keep them obedient to social order and capitalistic principles. If your don&#8217;t, everything is taken away from you. Even threats are hold against you or members of your family. Besides that thousands of other institutions try to make your life a living hell. You cant sleep, eat or even live without feeling a threat that can be caused against you. So far that you almost feel like you need to kill yourself. The reason why a lot of students kill themselves.</p>
<p>I learned to educate myself. I learned decent English and i learned different psychological mechanism&#8217;s that this world has enclosed in itself. It&#8217;s a horror to every kid, a death or a putting to sleep of what they really are and what they really think. Creating people with more then one face, but the one that&#8217;s screaming all the time is the one left behind without a voice to speak, creating all kinds of illnesses witch are good for thousands of jobs to create to. </p>
<p>And as the person who wrote this suggested. We create jobs out of misery and keep working till we drop and paradoxically. We react lazy to this type of shit and therefore we need to keep working harder en harder each day. Because where creating a loop that will cost us in labor and not life years. </p>
<p>Now keep on discussing bullshit&#8230; I already told the bullies to sit and to listen to what i have learned through 20 years of misery. This time I&#8217;m indulging myself to be an open book about the flaws of books and school which earn ton&#8217;s of money expressing idea&#8217;s from idiots who do not care about your pain, neither mine. But relax neither do i myself.</p>
<p>Greets.</p>
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		<title>By: Rob Boucher</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-18976</link>
		<dc:creator>Rob Boucher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At the risk of being a little long here. I&#039;ve been thinking about starting a school myself at this point. 

I was a person who did very well in school.  99% percentile.  Went to college and got an computer science degree.. High IQ, (blah, blah. ) So I&#039;m a &quot;success&quot; per se by many society standards.


School taught me basic skills, but rarely gave me context on when to use them, how to or why I really should care. It was a rare class that taught me to think for myself. 

School: 
- Didn&#039;t teach me how to live. 
- Often taught me principles that are contrary to the real world. 
	- In engineering school, I was supposed to do my assignments alone.  This is exactly the opposite of what you try to do in the real world. you don&#039;t try to reinvent the wheel unless you need to.  
        - You take a course, fail it. You take it again, and they average the grade. point is you learned it. There was a reason that MIT was pass/no credit during some of it&#039;s time. The issue is whether you learned it or not and how well you learned it, not whether you failed the first time. 
 
- Didn&#039;t deal or address social issues of interpersonal relationships, which are essential for being successful
- Didn&#039;t deal with emotional intelligence and understanding that we are making judgements and decisions about life that have lasting consequences
- Didn&#039;t teach about choice and consequences in a supportive way.
- Teach little to nothing about money and how to really make it. Hint - a job (pay for time) is not the final goal here.
- Didn&#039;t provide tools to deal with the job market 
- Didn&#039;t teach about life and how it changes over time as you age. 

The point being, that school should prepare us for the &quot;real world&quot; very well. It should prepare us in a way that doesn&#039;t overly coddle us. It should teach us that you can fail and just get right back up and try again.  It should teach about consequences, but provide a safety net in the early stages as it helps to build confidence and teach people how to fail gracefully. It should provide a place for children to explore and provide guidance on how to discover their strengths.

Certainly some basic math and language skills are important, but the manner in which they are taught only work for a small part of the population. No animal sits down as a desk while it&#039;s mother teaches it something. We are using only our higher functions and disconnecting the experiences. Courses that had you try to accomplish a task and then tought you the tools to accomplish it as you go would teach 

&gt;&gt;&gt;The best way to learn is to actually try and perfrom tasks or accomplish goals and give people the tools to complete those. 
You can create games or other artificial exercises to help in this endevour, but work on the actual task. Expose patterns and practices that have worked for others in the past, then step back and give kids room. Provide guidance on the way to the goal. Deal with interpersonal issues and emotional issues as they come up. Expose what works in life and teach how to own your own life. 

For example, 
 - if you want to teach about math and when you would use it - How would you hold up a person with playing cards? What do you need to know to accomplish task?  How do you figure it out?  
 - If you want to teach history, bring up current events where a negative or positive thing has occurred. Looks back in history for other patterns. 
 - If you want to teach finances, play monopoly or other games that similute the stock market. Bring in Cash Flow from Rich Dad Poor Dad. 

Some will take to these games and some will not. The key to find exercises that work for these different types. 

If school was even 1/10th of this, it would go a lot further towards giving people the skills they really need in life and moving society and the world forward towards some of the more utopian visions many of us think should exist, but which seem impractical given the state of the world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the risk of being a little long here. I&#8217;ve been thinking about starting a school myself at this point. </p>
<p>I was a person who did very well in school.  99% percentile.  Went to college and got an computer science degree.. High IQ, (blah, blah. ) So I&#8217;m a &#8220;success&#8221; per se by many society standards.</p>
<p>School taught me basic skills, but rarely gave me context on when to use them, how to or why I really should care. It was a rare class that taught me to think for myself. </p>
<p>School:<br />
- Didn&#8217;t teach me how to live.<br />
- Often taught me principles that are contrary to the real world.<br />
	- In engineering school, I was supposed to do my assignments alone.  This is exactly the opposite of what you try to do in the real world. you don&#8217;t try to reinvent the wheel unless you need to.<br />
        &#8211; You take a course, fail it. You take it again, and they average the grade. point is you learned it. There was a reason that MIT was pass/no credit during some of it&#8217;s time. The issue is whether you learned it or not and how well you learned it, not whether you failed the first time. </p>
<p>- Didn&#8217;t deal or address social issues of interpersonal relationships, which are essential for being successful<br />
- Didn&#8217;t deal with emotional intelligence and understanding that we are making judgements and decisions about life that have lasting consequences<br />
- Didn&#8217;t teach about choice and consequences in a supportive way.<br />
- Teach little to nothing about money and how to really make it. Hint &#8211; a job (pay for time) is not the final goal here.<br />
- Didn&#8217;t provide tools to deal with the job market<br />
- Didn&#8217;t teach about life and how it changes over time as you age. </p>
<p>The point being, that school should prepare us for the &#8220;real world&#8221; very well. It should prepare us in a way that doesn&#8217;t overly coddle us. It should teach us that you can fail and just get right back up and try again.  It should teach about consequences, but provide a safety net in the early stages as it helps to build confidence and teach people how to fail gracefully. It should provide a place for children to explore and provide guidance on how to discover their strengths.</p>
<p>Certainly some basic math and language skills are important, but the manner in which they are taught only work for a small part of the population. No animal sits down as a desk while it&#8217;s mother teaches it something. We are using only our higher functions and disconnecting the experiences. Courses that had you try to accomplish a task and then tought you the tools to accomplish it as you go would teach </p>
<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;The best way to learn is to actually try and perfrom tasks or accomplish goals and give people the tools to complete those.<br />
You can create games or other artificial exercises to help in this endevour, but work on the actual task. Expose patterns and practices that have worked for others in the past, then step back and give kids room. Provide guidance on the way to the goal. Deal with interpersonal issues and emotional issues as they come up. Expose what works in life and teach how to own your own life. </p>
<p>For example,<br />
 &#8211; if you want to teach about math and when you would use it &#8211; How would you hold up a person with playing cards? What do you need to know to accomplish task?  How do you figure it out?<br />
 &#8211; If you want to teach history, bring up current events where a negative or positive thing has occurred. Looks back in history for other patterns.<br />
 &#8211; If you want to teach finances, play monopoly or other games that similute the stock market. Bring in Cash Flow from Rich Dad Poor Dad. </p>
<p>Some will take to these games and some will not. The key to find exercises that work for these different types. </p>
<p>If school was even 1/10th of this, it would go a lot further towards giving people the skills they really need in life and moving society and the world forward towards some of the more utopian visions many of us think should exist, but which seem impractical given the state of the world.</p>
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