Last week I wrote about what we should be teaching students to prepare them for the future. That led me down a rabbit hole of how we should be teaching them
I think a bit issue is that, personality-wise, 3/4 of the population are discrete thinkers and only 25% are systems thinkers (the S and the I of the MBTI respectively) I'm OK with a playground but I'm a systems thinker. I find there are a ton of people who need the constraint of a playpen so they can reduce the complexity and chaos and learn.
Heck, even those of us who are exploring the realm of the future are, I'd wager, heavily skewed towards systems thinking and away from discrete.
Everyone has it backwards we don't teach people. We help then know themselves and how they grow. Then they teach themselves. Education is a tool for conditioning. We will not survive with hive mind. We will only survive using our full intelligence. How we view education is idiotic. We are born fully equipped to learn. They destroy that in us.
Where do I sign up?!
I’ve been thinking among similar lines. We are holding our students back in many (increasing) situations especially in the field of teaching AI.
I think we should grade our students on how well they teach us!
Teach undergrads like they live in a playground, not a prison. That’s what students need 20 minutes and 2000 years in the future.
I think a bit issue is that, personality-wise, 3/4 of the population are discrete thinkers and only 25% are systems thinkers (the S and the I of the MBTI respectively) I'm OK with a playground but I'm a systems thinker. I find there are a ton of people who need the constraint of a playpen so they can reduce the complexity and chaos and learn.
Heck, even those of us who are exploring the realm of the future are, I'd wager, heavily skewed towards systems thinking and away from discrete.
Everyone has it backwards we don't teach people. We help then know themselves and how they grow. Then they teach themselves. Education is a tool for conditioning. We will not survive with hive mind. We will only survive using our full intelligence. How we view education is idiotic. We are born fully equipped to learn. They destroy that in us.