All Kids are born geniuses,but are crushed by society itself - Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku
http://www.thevenusproject.com/

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[imagomagus]

America's favorite professor. :))

It's not just the scientific curiosity that gets crushed, artistic and creative expression also.

[texasatan]

To simply teach memorization is ridiculous in this era. With the internet and smart phones/tablets virtually all human knowledge can be rapidly accessed. Rather than fill unwilling brains with useless data people need to learn to THINK, to manipulate data, to solve problems... Critical thinking, logic, problem solving: These are the things that need to be taught. The raw data doesn't need to be memorized, with modern technology at our disposal we can carry all of recorded history on a tablet.

[AdamOuissellat]

Why doesn't he just home-school?

[4EvveR]

@texasatan i agree that some changes should be made as level of knowledge and its accessibility has changed.. I also agree that many teachers some reason use memorization as ONLY method of teaching which is definitely wrong way to go. However, it is very hard to find new way of teaching. Manipulation isn't easy either and needs interest from a person, which many students lack. I believe problem is in using education mass product - it should be individualized (which comes with its own problems)

[4EvveR]

@tulp35000 reason why you need to do so many different subjects is that person at such age (7-18) is not capable of choosing his life path/profession. Even most students (uni students i mean) are still not sure do they want to work in the same field as their degree is - there is no way you can put this pressure on teenager.

[tulp35000]

@tulp35000 Genius and overthrowing the government, cause we really don't need some corrupt schmucks to represent us. World need change, Now.

[tulp35000]

About 80% of stuff you "learn" change that with "memorize" in school is either going to be forgotten or useless to you in life. So basically all you need is Basic math, fluent reading and grammar, and 1 subject of what you like most, 3 lessons in total, Discard all else and you can reduce 12 year torture into 3-4 years of actual learning and you save about 8 years of your life. Think of schools as some form of population control, people in power obviously don't want the general pop going all...

[texasatan]

@4EvveR 500 characters isn't enough to really make a good point... I guess what I'm thinking is that a lot of our education system still comes from a time when people didn't have the ability to carry an entire library with them at all times. Memorization was the only way to access all the data. This isn't true today and emphasis should be shifting away from pure memorization. Not everyone learns/thinks the same, not every profession is the same. Many professions will always require memorization.

[BrainChild42]

everyone is born a genius? wasn't that the storyline for "baby geniuses", the worst movie ever made?

[4EvveR]

@texasatan i used to think just like that, but then i understood that you actually have to memorize stuff to be able to manipulate it. Yes it is accessible but it takes more than just reading it to be able to manipulate/solve related issues. thing is that memorizing allows you to actually work with two "sources" of information at the same time: one you know(memorized) and one you just have been introduced with(reading eg). In this way it is much more easier to actually manipulate knowledge :)

[Luminahawke]

This is worthy of a favorite. >.<;



[dronea]

The school and university settup is to create tax slaves and pick out the intelligent ones to serve as an industry new world order mongol. Live life, don't worry. The planet grows food and building materials. Ggives life and free recreational drugs and medicine. As evrything is in our reach. It is freedom to information and community without the university elite funding neo con space prison crap of metal and afterburners programming. Law under love, FUCK Crowley and this mindset of indulgence