Educating kids is a sin

Why do we expect little kids to consume information that took humans thousands of years to accumulate. How could we force theorems and abstract concepts down their throats at such a tender age?

We follow an outdated school system that prepares kids for the industrial revolution, they are made to sit in rows like assembly workers and each one graded, the same way manufactured parts are graded for their quality.

Kids start out with wonderful questions like, "Why is the sky so blue?", "Why does the sun go down everyday?". Beautiful scientific questions. Wait for them to grow up for college, you very well know the situation, from suicide from the pressure to complete indifference. The death of curiosity.

We are living in an Information Age, hundreds of years from the Industrial Age. In a decade or so, we won't have enough jobs to send our kids to. There's a high chance every job out there can be automated, not only the mechanical ones.

We're in a dire need to revamp the education model for the Information Age. By the time they graduate, it would be in a world where every single job is automated. Not to mention the drastically increasing life expectancy.

I say, compulsory education should amount to reading and writing. The rest, when they ask "Dad, why's the grass so green, why are there so many different animals on it?". We should say, "That's a great question, sweetheart, here's an online encyclopedia, why don't we find out?"

Submitted November 23, 2017 at 08:02AM by TransPlanetInjection http://ift.tt/2BiMyPI