Daniel,
I think you bring up great points about our current
education system. I would agree that for the majority of people the intention
is not to establish critical thinking in our youth. I took a class called
Contemporary Social Problems, in which we discussed our education system. In
particular about the foundations of our system being based on the
Prussian-Industrial system of education. The intention of this system is to
track students in public education for menial labor and to enforce the hierarchical
class structure through monotonous root learning, simple task completion, and
division of children into rigid categories.
In my opinion, Louv’s proposal, however radical, can do no
more harm to our children than what is already happening. If it can assist in
some form of critical thinking then I’d say it is worth further examination to
determine its effectiveness.
Also there is something that I think would be beneficial for
our education system and that is to not think there is just one way of teaching.
In the field of education reform, there are so many ideas to improve the system
and everyone seems to be looking for the one magical solution to apply to every
student. I think this is a flawed view because what works for most students
might not work for the others. We should adopt a viewpoint of teaching to each
and every student, this means finding what works for this one specific child
and then applying a proposed beneficial method for educating that child. This
might take multiple teachers in one classroom and allocating more resources to
education, but shouldn’t we want whatever is best for humanity’s future no
matter what the cost?
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