Comments by "gwho" (@gwho) on "How School Makes Kids Dumb" video.

  1. teaching and learning knowledge and wisdom from your community is so natural. just simply get a guest list of adults, even kids' parents who are somewhat successful to speak and drop real world knowledge for the kids regularly. That's just one simple idea. That can be done and will happen naturally. But government holds a tight tight tight grip on the full usage of time of kids, crowding out any free association that might occur, or evolution or experimentation of how to educate. All government needs to do is simply not monoppolize kids' full time, 6 hours + 1 more hour plus several more hours for homework. Kids work more than full time than adults do. How people think active government education reforming is what's needed is ridiculous. They don't want to let go of control. No small party or person knows all the factors and possible innovations and what might be better for each individual. Just like the free market, we simply need to roll back how much time government controls education curricula and how kids are held. Just simply let go. Simply allow freedom for teachers to try their own methods, even doing away with tests. Let go of what should be covered throughout the year. Let go of how kids do it. Let go of how many days kids need to attend. Let go of homework requirements. Let go of lecturing in class and homework at home, and instead allow watching lectures at home and do the doing and collaboration and questioning in class. so many possibilities ALL being cockblocked by government mandates.
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