RE: Basic intelligence in America.(rant)
July 30, 2012 at 1:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2012 at 1:22 am by Ryantology.)
I don't know if it means anything, but I do tend to find that when I speak to kids just graduating high school today, as opposed to those who graduated with me in 2000, they seem if not more intelligent, at least more informed and more receptive to science in particular.
Perhaps the issue is not that people are getting stupid, but that our system of 30 kids in a classroom following a pre-made study plan and spending the entire year essentially studying for the finals is simply no longer adequate in 2012. There are so many ways of learning independently and proactively today, I can't imagine the classroom can possibly appeal in comparison. I know that I've learned so much more, about so many things, on my own than I ever did while in institutional education. I was always a pretty disinterested student.
Perhaps the issue is not that people are getting stupid, but that our system of 30 kids in a classroom following a pre-made study plan and spending the entire year essentially studying for the finals is simply no longer adequate in 2012. There are so many ways of learning independently and proactively today, I can't imagine the classroom can possibly appeal in comparison. I know that I've learned so much more, about so many things, on my own than I ever did while in institutional education. I was always a pretty disinterested student.
