0 responses to “We need to reevaluate our entire approach to education – you see, once upon a time education was heavenly – There were the high priests, actually it began with truly coming from God, written in the Torah, and only the greatest Rabbis – exceptional minds (and hearts) understood its depth – As its duty was for all people, they became teachers – This somehow morphed into other narcissistic self-serving intellectualism, who simply as Aristotle wrote “the mind is the greatest pleasure!” therefore, indulged for the sake of this pleasure, in studying – Of-course there were other intellectuals as well, so they now formed a community – By nature they saw themselves as superior, hence others did to. – Moving right along, eventually when science began to revolutionize the mechanisms of life (machines, cars etc.) a new god was born. – In this religion, the high priests were the professors and naturally it was self-serving institutions! – Today we have a new reality, for whereas the nature of education was once the need for an intellectual deigning it appropriate to lower himself to the uninitiated at best (foolish masses at worst) every single child can access infinitely more information than any intellectual can possibly hope to retain! – In other words, our entire institutions of education from k-12, certainly B.A. and depending on which field, often masters and inevitability a doctorate, is simply an absolutely foolish extraordinary stupid excersize! – That time should be spent a. to teach the difference between right and wrong (at the very least, the legal system of the country – as I recently asked a bright Jewish girl, post-college “what’s the feeling of the young people today?” she said, “well, why didn’t they teach us practical things in school, like how to do taxes?!” b. Every child leaving school should be proficient a. in computer science – most jobs will be in data (the prediction http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2012/09/10/by-decades-end-big-data-will-be-bigger-than-ever) However not all people have an aptitude – we must give people aptitude tests and give them skills accordingly.”