What if monotonous biology/chemistry classes were replaced with understanding your bodies chemistry and the basics of health. What if we knew what the basics of what doctors know? What if you could determine whether or not you even need to go to the doctor when you see symptoms? What if in the event that you even need a doctor, your doctor and yourself could compare notes about your symptoms?
What if instead of reading dead and outdated authors such as Charles Dickens and books like "The Great Gatsby"-English classes taught you how to read legal documents, the law, how to analyze what others write, and how to develop the analytical skills necessary to effectively write and therefore communicate?
What if Math classes where numbers were a source of hell, boredom, and frustration were replaced with showing the student how to budget money, how to read financial documents, and how to file your taxes for example?
What if Gym classes, which are a source of hell for teenagers who are uncomfortable with their bodies (and how they fit into gender hierarchy), were replaced with nutrition courses? What if instead of Gym being about comparing meat with jocks, were about holistic nutrition, how to eat to live?
What if instead of dating history as "being in the past", "it didn't happen to us", or "thank god America is free", we learned that what we had in common with those of the past. What if we learned how similar our struggles are with those in our history as a whole, instead of totally disconnecting from it? What if instead of boring Social Studies courses about how great our dead white presidents were; we could create a better future outcome in societies, by simply looking at older societies?
If these things were accomplished, what would that mean for the American Economy? If we knew how not to be sick, what would happen to the pharmaceutical industry? What would happen to a lot of jobs, that actually, discourage the development of students?
We alllll know what the current American Education system has created.
AMERICA
HATES
THINKERS.
When will we learn?
6 comments:
Hi! it's nice!
"when will we learn"
yup i ask myself everyday when will a lot people learn.
You have a lot of excellent ideas. They should put you in charge of the Board of Education - nationwide!
Hehe. Thanks Velour! I wish I could open my own school, the woman who posted before you would be co-president. It'd be great up until I got assassinated for teaching youth that their lives actually have VALUE. And teaching little black girls that their place goes beyond being a "dark skinned booty call". Yes yes. It would be indeed wonderful.
so simple; but yes, the gov't wants to produce dumb workers who don't understand their own value. I would add classes in analyzing racism and misogyny as well as courses where kids would learn about each others cultures without assumptions or presumptions
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