Missing Something?
I must be missing something. I am confident there is an answer to my concern that is simple and straightforward, but for the life of me, I’m not sure what it is.
School is not what it used to be. If you take a look at the overall intellectual acumen of the 2010 classrooms across America, there is something missing, or at least that seems to be the predominate opinion.
“Every time people want to criticize the American education system, the first thing they do is compare with other children in the world,” said Pat Hardy of Fort Worth, a member of the State Board of Education who pushed to make the enhancements law. “We are very far behind in the area of math and science. So it looks to me like we need to do a little more math and science.” (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, August 14, 2010)
Funny, the generation from about 1940-2010 went to these American public schools with their “lacking curriculum” and with their minds and hearts took America and the world to the moon, created and refined the personal computer, created cell phones, smart cars and bombs, made little tiny cameras and music players, and contributed to the overall knowledge of the world in incomprehensible magnitude.
I’m just saying, maybe instead of continually “increasing” the complexity of the curriculum (and there’s nothing wrong with that) we need to shed a little light on the students. Maybe we just need more discipline, focus, concentration, and, dare I say it, better teaching. Maybe we need more inspiration and less perspiration.
Then again, maybe I don’t know anything about it at all. I do know this – kids will learn what is important to them. Maybe we could figure how to tap into that with a little of our adult intellectualism.