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Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:21:18 GMT

Sudbury Schools clearly demonstrate you can still innovate in private schools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awOAmTaZ4XI

If nothing else, I'll just have to start my own school. All I need is the right business proposal, the right investors and the right parents. But I'm certainly going to wait until I get some serious business experience and my MBA. In the meantime, I'll continue to develop and refine my ideas on education.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:07:44 GMT

"There are many ways to learn how to write a song, learn about music, or play bass...

the problem would lie in when you claim you have THE way, subsidize your position, and perform top down analysis and create shitty Platonic confirmtion bias mathematical models around it."

I'm expressing my opinion on how an organization should be run, just like any entrepeneur would. What do you think I'm trying to? Get appointed to the U.S. Department of Education and regulate the curriculums of every school in the nation? I'm not here discussing public policy, obviously we both agree that government-regulated and government-run schools are a mistake. Otherwise, why would I be posting here?

That being said, I'd like to convince both private schools and public school teachers and administrators to try out my ideas. I suspect that private schools and charter schools will be more receptive but it's still worth trying to reach out to those in the public sector as well IMHO. The less children that are indoctrinated, the better.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:00:06 GMT

"1 word: privatize"

I agree but a free market in education will not be coming about in any state in our nation anytime soon. Nevertheless, there are still private schools that are in desperate need of innovation. At the moment, private grades schools, high schools and colleges are not innovating. Very of them are significantly different than your average public school.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:47:11 GMT

"I will firmly say that one has not looked into education deep enough if he has not watched this vid."

Very good, I'll certainly have to listen to a few more lectures by Sir Ken Robinson and read some of his writings.

I believe this is also a great video to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

vive la insurrection — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:07:19 GMT

There are many ways to learn how to write a song, learn about music, or play bass...

the problem would lie in when you claim you have THE way, subsidize your position, and perform top down analysis and create shitty Platonic confirmtion bias mathematical models around it.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

ThatOldGuy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 06:15:46 GMT

You embed YouTube videos like this: surrounding brackets, url, :640:385

No spaces in embedding the videos. No buttons needed.

If you need further help, regard the first link in the first link of John James' signature (under Welcome; or just click here).

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

Kelvin Silva — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:24:05 GMT

Is it the flash button that i use? I tried it but apparently i forgot to put the dimension thats why it wasnt working, so i just put on the URL.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

ThatOldGuy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 05:07:40 GMT

kelvin_silva: reply to this to see how putting a video in the thread is done.

(Please visit the site to view this media)

:640:385 are the window dimensions

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

Kelvin Silva — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:46:14 GMT

1 word: privatize

I will firmly say that one has not looked into education deep enough if he has not watched this vid:

<video>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

</video>

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:38:39 GMT

"Bottom line, fixing govt education is like teaching a corpse to swim."

You don't have to teach it to swim, you just have to make sure it floats so that people will see it and quickly bury it. In other words, ensure that students in both public shools and private schools are introduced to opposing viewpoints regarding public policy rather than being indoctrinated.

The only reason government education exists is because students are indoctrinated rather than being encouraged to become independent thinkers.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:20:29 GMT

Okay, I guess paragraph breaks don't carry over when you copy-and-paste something here. You have to manually redo all the paragraph breaks.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

ThatOldGuy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:15:20 GMT

America.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:14:03 GMT

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

ThatOldGuy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:10:20 GMT

Just hit enter before your topic sentence.

Just like this.

And this.

Re: 10 Problems with American Education & How to Fix Them

benjamin.rosenzweig — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:09:08 GMT

Where is the paragraph break button?