Have We Stolen A Generation's Independent Thought?

I remember when I was first was first introduced to John Taylor Gatto's 6-lesson school teacher essay as an undergraduate studying education. I dismissed it out of hand, ludicrous, completely unfounded in reality. I ran across it again a few years into teaching and was absolutely floored by how accurate it was.

This brings out some of those same feelings, along with frustration that this is what the system pushes us into doing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/04/06/have-we-stolen-a-generations-independent-thought

We are teaching students, literally, not to think, but instead to clear their own thoughts and concentrate on following the path followed by the people who wrote the test questions. We are teaching them that every question has just one right answer, that somebody out there already knows it, and that you go to school to learn to say what those people want you to say. This is not a new issue in education, but we have ramped it up, systematically injected it into every level of K-12 education, and incentivized it like never before. If it has stifled a generation's desire for independent thought, that is no surprise.

Submitted April 09, 2019 at 08:50AM by philnotfil http://bit.ly/2UHTdiL