Bevendre

“What’s wrong with the American education system?”

“Besides the fact that the American education system was designed decades ago to effectively train large groups of people to repeat mundane tasks as they would in a factory, instead of actively encouraging individual exploration, expansion and thought?  Aside from the common budget cuts that strip funding from music, art and physical education programs deeming them ‘unimportant’ because they don’t foster growth in the sciences?  Aside from a societal preference for sports and athletes over the students who are ACTUALLY involved in the subjects deemed important to cultivate?  Apart from the common trend of siphoning funds from necessary programs to feed into sports programs in a desperate attempt to garner revenue that was already there? Besides the general practice to not allow children to explore their own interests or to study foreign languages until after their brains have developed to a point that makes these subjects much harder to comprehend?  A lot.”