I was thinking of the movie, Captain Fantastic, while reading your article. In that movie, a father raises his kids off the land, but educates them through books and real life, promotes physical strength and endurance, teaches them self-sufficiency and critical thinking/how to think for themselves.
They learn with an excitement and ability to understand, even debate all sides of an issue. They are more learned than their suburban counterparts. Yet, this is all seen as a threat with a move to take the kids away from the father.
There is a line where the grandparents say they want the kids to live with THEM to prepare them for the future. The father says that's exactly what HE'S been doing.
The movie deals with the crux of modern ideas and standards for education. We are not preparing students for the world. We are preparing them to be slaves for the rest of their lives.
No individual thoughts are allowed or encouraged. You either know the material they want you to know - as it is handed down to them - or you fail.
It is well know that the standardized tests are a hindrance and self defeating in their attempt to define a student's abilities. They are expensive and biased and useless - except to further the intentions of those in control.
I'm so glad to see schools drifting away from this requirement! It's no doubt, a fight against the established businesses that have a firm economic grasp in this charade but such a worthy cause...
I was thinking of the movie, Captain Fantastic, while reading your article. In that movie, a father raises his kids off the land, but educates them through books and real life, promotes physical strength and endurance, teaches them self-sufficiency and critical thinking/how to think for themselves.
They learn with an excitement and ability to understand, even debate all sides of an issue. They are more learned than their suburban counterparts. Yet, this is all seen as a threat with a move to take the kids away from the father.
There is a line where the grandparents say they want the kids to live with THEM to prepare them for the future. The father says that's exactly what HE'S been doing.
The movie deals with the crux of modern ideas and standards for education. We are not preparing students for the world. We are preparing them to be slaves for the rest of their lives.
No individual thoughts are allowed or encouraged. You either know the material they want you to know - as it is handed down to them - or you fail.
It is well know that the standardized tests are a hindrance and self defeating in their attempt to define a student's abilities. They are expensive and biased and useless - except to further the intentions of those in control.
I'm so glad to see schools drifting away from this requirement! It's no doubt, a fight against the established businesses that have a firm economic grasp in this charade but such a worthy cause...