My Idea to Heal the World

joseph (75) · 8 years ago

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fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

Sure @joseph , I´ll check it out :)

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eeks (68) · 8 years ago

So my suggestion is to make every child that start in school from age six to be a fully qualified medicinal doctor by the age of twelve.

Why? This type of monoculture approach to anything is weak. Diversity is better. Teach kids well, teach kids to think, teach kids to be critical, but don't teach them all the same thing. Comment #2 of #1000.

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fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

Diversification is something that people can choose when they are 18. In case you have not noticed, the diversification in schools over the last 30 years is exactly the reason societies have been dumbed down so much.

Why do you think there is less then 40 people in the world who truly understand cryptography? - It is because most of the world has been distracted by complete bullshit-activities in the school-system so they never learned anything of importance.

Hot chicks will still be hot chicks in the future - but with a big useful brain full of important knowledge instead of all these pseudo-branches of useless studies that waste students time and money.

People are being rejected knowledge in a big way - Why do you think there are so few doctors in the world that can work with nano-technology? - It is because we live in a world that is upside down, and our children is not being educated right by the so called government who pushes their agendas down the throats of children to make them party-loyal-voters before they are old enough to vote.

We need to disrupt & change all that!

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eeks (68) · 8 years ago

I disagree with that. The brain is shaped significantly but how it's trained when you are young. The more flexible you make kids, the more adaptable they will become. You can't smoosh rote education into kids monolithically and expect them to think different.

I would argue that never in history has knowledge mattered less. Rote education is a waste.

What's useful is critical thinking, adaptability, the ability to learn new things, the ability to interact with different settings.

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fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

I accept that you disagree, and I have read your reason for disagreeing - but I disagree with your statement.

When I was young, I loved to play with Lego, but my parents where poor back then, so they bought me copy-lego from Hong Kong when I asked for technic-lego.

I love technic-lego, it is absolutely fantastic and so educational - my friend on the other hand, his parents bought him technic-legos, a big set. Over the summer he built a remote-controlled car, and a few weeks after that he built a remote controlled detonator which he used to light up firecrackers from a safe distance.

If we all had - and we do have - the chance to start our life with the right tools - most of us in the world would be extremely useful instead of feeling useless in situations of mass-panic and the need for rescue.

My friend is now finishing his second PhD at the University of Oslo, he has won several prizes in programming on an extreme high level, but our IQ is the same - we are both very intelligent people - there just was not enough technic-lego for both of us to go around, so I became good at other things while he became a specialist on high tech.

During primary and secondary school - both of us got through it with a big bore as we understood the mathematics a few grades above us because we had programed together in the summer before we started school on his dads calculator from when he attended the university.

When we have the best teachers and the best tools - that is something to stretch for. The ruling elite has robbed us for knowledge and stirred up a whole lot of trouble that was not needed.

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eeks (68) · 8 years ago

I think you are mismatching knowledge, access, and education.

Are there examples of the type approach you lay out being successful? What evidence or research supports what you laid out?

If nothing else, it created an interesting discussion!

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cryptobro (51) · 8 years ago

Agree with the balanced approach to early education over being too prescriptive. Give kids exposure to many areas and make the learning fun.

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fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

the "let the children run wild" fantasy does not work - we have tested it for 30+ years and all it has produces is a big mass of brainless followers.

If a man falls on the street, people start filming him with the cellphone camera instead of offering him first-aid.

That is a result of lack of knowledge, lack of understanding - it is proof of stupidity is what it truly is.

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futuristocracy (44) · 8 years ago

I am also going to dedicate myself to the advancement of education by using Steemit. Great post! Let the debate begin!

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2 votes

jennamarbles (57) · 8 years ago

I like your thoughts! I will follow you and support

fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

Awesome @jennamarbles thank you :)

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akareyon (59) · 8 years ago (edited)

Consider:

(author unknown, and forget the fake einstein quote)

I support many of the conclusions and viewpoints offered by John Taylor Gatto's work... the Nuremberg funnel principle is not sustainable.

You have a point, though: school must empower children, and the grown-ups they become, if the world is to be healed.

fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

It is so valuable - real knowledge-based education. Not a day wasted in school - every day solving new and harder puzzles with a reason and a logical meaning. Imagine :D

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akareyon (59) · 8 years ago

I'm a logic-driven person myself, so please don't misunderstand when I say that reason and logic are not the only value.

Imagine instead a school that helps children develop their own natural skills and talents - suum cuique, if you will. Where, although everyone learns the basic and fundamental skills in everything, each one can decide for herself which venue to pursue, which knowledge or understanding to deepen. In my view, it is not the job of the school to produce supermen, but to assist them develop and control their powers, be they water, fire, earth or wind.

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groovy (57) · 8 years ago

Well you have a good idea in principle but in application I am not sure if you can pull off so much memorizing anatomy and studying chemistry etc at such a young age. The other problem is that the medical system is wack already. Now with that being said I still think your idea is better than what is being done currently. The education system is very lacking and highly controlled by the government status quo which isn't really producing any geniuses these days considering most of the scientists and engineers are coming from other countries then the USA which is entirely the USA fault. But anyways good post.

fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

The Idea is on the blockchain now - these things does not change over night unless we overthrow the dysfunctional institutions and replace it with something that work.

Memorizing anatomy does not need to be hard or boring when we use modern technology to make it fun and educational and even practical.

Teachers seem to cling to their teaching-positions to protect their paycheck, we need an educational system that educates geniuses - a big part of the problem is teachers with very little knowledge to teach as well.

You can see them in the streets, grown men and women with office-jobs and government-jobs, chasing little pokemon-figures around the city.. They are willing to walk hundreds of miles when it is fun and benefits them.

What if you got steemdollars for putting together the human body the right way in an advanced anatomy-game? would that motivate you to learn faster? - Guitar-Hero Expert is pretty hard too, but it is fun - so people teach themselves how to master it.

Lets keep this topic warm, There is a lot of good ideas coming in.

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liberosist (70) · 8 years ago

Frystikken, that was a touching post. The problem is that most people can be kind, but there's always someone self-centered who will do bad things. And that starts a chain of a vicious circle.

I do think that education is fundamentally broken at this stage and needs a comprehensive reform. Have you seen the new Finland system? Check it out, I think you'll be impressed - http://hechingerreport.org/how-finland-broke-every-rule-and-created-a-top-school-system/

fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

Thank you for your great comment, the education is fundamentally broken at this stage and needs a comprehensive reform.

I will absolutely check out your article on the matter.

I am very impressed with Finland, I have always looked up to them because I have been fortunate to follow the demoscene in scandinavia, so I know what the Finns are good for.

Finland produce a lot of top notch engineers, it is thanks to skilled finish people we had such things as Linux, 3D-Rendering in Realtime and advanced game-platforms so early.

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liberosist (70) · 8 years ago

Indeed! I'm a huge fan of Scandinavian culture. History has proven that if you want to see where the world is going - see what the Scandinavians are doing. The Finns may just be the coolest people in the world. :)

I hope the world follows their example and reforms education radically.

melissag (48) · 8 years ago

What if that is not what they want?

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nicoleta (44) · 8 years ago

I love diversity !Every age has a great need for education and diversity !Just a ritual not support change .Thank you !

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bhokor (53) · 8 years ago

Nice proposition fyrstikken, a good way of getting a better humanity

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fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

thank you @bhokor

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5 votes

cwmyao1 (54) · 8 years ago

Agree kids need limitation and rules setup for them. Great idea, teach every child to be a genius and hope my kids are.

Brilliant, how come nobody thought of that?

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fyrstikken (75) · 8 years ago

Probably because the people who get to say anything in the old world are from the institutions who teach their students to think inside the box.

Just like Bitcoin revolutionized Money on the Internet, and Steemit revolutionizing social media and money on the Internet - we too must create disruptive technology for greater education.

with technology the greatest know-how-teachers could teach millions of children in a disciplined environment with qualified tutors.

Diversification will be provided in the first and last part of a school-day dedicated to "sports" which can be diversified.

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calamus056 (58) · 8 years ago

My idea: stop letting them indoctrinate you and teach your kids how to teach themselves. It's also much more important to learn how to be healthy and grow your own food than to know how many gazillion light years away certain stars are or that a criminal named Columbus "discovered" America.

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