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Old 03-21-2007, 07:11 PM
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Also, the 14,000 hours does count in practice because students are being trained in logical processess by teachers. It is immaterial to this point whether teachers are boring or not in their presentation. Also, most children are not studying math, science, history, language, etc. independently of their schooling. It is definitely happening in school.
The point was that while the learning does take place in those 14,000 hours not all those hour are taking in which the student learns.
Most student don't have very good criticial thinking skills when they leave school.

I do also think that it would be good if student weren't detaught creativity, but you don't need to talk about right and left brain hemispheres to make a case that creativity should be taught.
The only reason you talk about brain hemispheres is to sound scientific.
This mindset is not only the mindset you want to have less taught in school, it also doesn't help you in this case to add brain hemispeheres to your argument.

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First, about the suppression of genius. The government's first and foremost role is to perpetuate society. This means that it must train the majority of the population to be workers, with a minority of individuals who direct the masses. If everyone was a genius, then who would work at McDonalds?
Robots, but that isn't the point.
Each country would benefit if it had more genuises. Theire is no educational system known today (to the people that make politics), that could be adopted that would make every child a genius.
Politicans want good education, but they don't know how to archieve it.

The general public doesn't think that a process like Win Wengers Image Streaming is effictive.
If the public would think so you would find politicans who would try to get it into the classrooms.

So take Hanlon's razor to explain why the school system is the way it is.
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