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Dumbing-down of the educational system?

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Renegade:
I can't understand all that stuff. There's so many words !
(Joke!)
-TaoPhoenix (October 14, 2012, 11:57 PM)
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It's not the words that are a problem for me... It's the letters~! ;D

(Need to brush up on so much math... forgotten far too much...)

Renegade:
https://theultimatehistorylesson.com/
-Renegade (October 14, 2012, 11:09 PM)
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When looking into this a bit, came across:

  What You've Been Missing

A special episode of that may be?

-ewemoa (October 15, 2012, 12:15 AM)
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Ah yes... I think I've seen that film before. If it's what I'm thinking, it has clips (like so many other documentaries) used for educational/commentary purposes, which while it doesn't violate copyright law, violates the feelings of the MAFIAA, and so...

I'll need to check on that MediaGoblin. Don't think I've seen it before.

Renegade:
Oh - Check here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB14C115443F2A882

Looks like part 7/10 is missing, but the rest seem to be there.

Renegade:
I just came across this:

http://www.edu-lu-tion.com/

In my 10+ years of teaching, "school sucks"  is perhaps the most common phrase I've heard students use to describe their feelings about public education. But this seemingly bitter and reductive slogan is actually quite clever. When taken literally, "school sucks"  is perhaps the most accurate and astute synopsis of the system I've ever heard. Here's why...

 
1. The twelve-year process of an American public education has a dramatic effect on the mind of a child. When we first enter school at age six, many of our best personal attributes are already in place. We are curious, innovative, unique, creative and hopeful in ways that we will rarely be able to replicate throughout the rest of our lives. But over time, school sucks those essential attributes out of too many of us...and replaces them with predictability, obedience and apathy.   
 
2. The public school system sucks off the productive capacity of hard-working people. The system is funded through taxation.  In other words, whether public education succeeds or fails (spoiler alert: it fails) at providing real education to the public, the cost goes up every year. There are no refunds.
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They have a poster there, that I think you'll really enjoy, Iain:

Dumbing-down of the educational system?

I did anyways. :)

ewemoa:
Oh - Check here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB14C115443F2A882

Looks like part 7/10 is missing, but the rest seem to be there.
-Renegade (October 15, 2012, 12:22 AM)
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Thanks!

I think I found the whole thing as a single piece -- a couple of options:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43-Zr2tbX9Y
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ77AJUENCQ

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