re: 9 reasons why public educ fails

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Sure, a lot of students only have the brain power for rote memorization of arithmetic, and a lot of them will need nothing more in their future limited lives, but science and technological progress depend on the ability to THINK AND CONCEPTUALIZE rather than just to memorize, and the future competitiveness of this country depends on having people who can do so.

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you memorize the building blocks and think during advance areas of the subjects. there is no need to teach conceptualization at the point of arithmetic to a class. the thinkers will develop advanced methods on their own, as thinkers are prone to do

teaching, especially until late high school, cannot teach creativity and thinking really. you're dealing with a wide audience of students, and all you're going to end up doing is dumbing down the building blocks and socializing scores.

thinking at young ages is for your gifted kids, who have their own classes for that. thinking for advanced normal kids won't develop until high school at the earliest, and they can't be creative without a base level of understanding