But what does this really mean? School is about developing critical thinking, regardless of whether you know every Shakespear madterpiece or whether you know how to resolve second order differetial equations. Cinese education surpassed western education years ago and they are now picking the fruits of that effort.
Yet, i think the real tragedy of western schooking and young people is social media. Its making our kids dumb any the are loosing their critical ability, ability to ask questions and find answers, ability to be curious. Yes, the western world is on a downward trend but it doesn’t have to be the end.
i see it as history repeating itself since various regions/areas/peoples of the east went through their own similar trends.
west asia – for example – was a bastion of philosophy, science and math during the dark ages, but went through an anti-intellectualism period that created the asia minor, levant, and gulf region we know today. the same w east asia as it went into its isolationist period in the 13/14th century.
if we’re lucky, this downward trend won’t have to last centuries like the 2 examples i’ve shared, but we should expect it since that’s how history keeps telling us that it will happen … again.
But what does this really mean? School is about developing critical thinking, regardless of whether you know every Shakespear madterpiece or whether you know how to resolve second order differetial equations. Cinese education surpassed western education years ago and they are now picking the fruits of that effort.
Yet, i think the real tragedy of western schooking and young people is social media. Its making our kids dumb any the are loosing their critical ability, ability to ask questions and find answers, ability to be curious. Yes, the western world is on a downward trend but it doesn’t have to be the end.
i see it as history repeating itself since various regions/areas/peoples of the east went through their own similar trends.
west asia – for example – was a bastion of philosophy, science and math during the dark ages, but went through an anti-intellectualism period that created the asia minor, levant, and gulf region we know today. the same w east asia as it went into its isolationist period in the 13/14th century.
if we’re lucky, this downward trend won’t have to last centuries like the 2 examples i’ve shared, but we should expect it since that’s how history keeps telling us that it will happen … again.