re: 9 reasons why public educ fails

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Doing well in class, while a noble goal, does not = educated. We know more today, but understand less. Some students can tell you what year the constitution was written and ratified, but almost none can explain why.

Schools today crank out memorizers and regurgitators instead of thinkers. This has been a slow progression over the last 100 or so years.

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I think schools are TRYING to get students to think now but in a misguided way. We are pushing skills and concepts before fundamentals are grasped.

If you compare education today to education in the past, the differences are probably light years apart. If we were lucky, back in the day, we might answer some basic chapter review questions and call it a day. Today, students are required to do so much more.

But schools never really produced thinkers, in my opinion. That came from home, and a natural curiosity by students (fostered by parents and society) that propelled students to learn and apply knowledge and skills. Students and parents filled in the educational gaps on their own at home and out in the world. That seems to be largely missing in students today.

Now schools SHOULD encourage students to think deeply about concepts, but I think our expectations for what schools can do for students far exceed reality.