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Originally Posted by jillio
You are absolutely correct on all points. Since No Child Left Behind, schools have become even more of a "robot factory". It is all about getting a child to memorize by rote so that they can spit it back out on a test. Critical thinking skills are totally ignored in today's eductional environment. We are turning out students who have memorized facts, but are completely unable to apply those facts to a real life situation in a creative and useful manner. That is not education.
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True. No matter how much the "educators" deny it, they are "teaching to the test." I think you know what I mean.
Hardly anything they learn one year is remembered the next year, much less used in adult life. What a waste.