09-14-2013, 11:21 PM
Lilitu Wrote:As much as it's meant to make everything more streamlined and conformed, I just can't help but imagine that it would only serve to aggravate our problem of reduced individualistic innovation and make education ever more just about numbers and grades rather than actual learning.
Why would this be the case? How does it make things even more conformed than they already are?
I personally believe that I'd have learned more digitally than in a school (or better yet, just turn me loose in a library). At the very least I wouldn't have gotten in trouble for asking questions that I looked up online as I did at school where most teachers did all they could to keep me (and others) silent and sticking to the very structured lesson plan for us to regurgitate the memorized answers from assigned reading (as opposed to actual learning to think or making any sense out of it), and often forget after. The entire school experience teaches how to obey orders and live in a society without rights more than anything else. Therefore I'm confused by your assertion there.