The Dream

Education

I think kids are pushed way over the edge with regard to expectations.

• The maximum attention span of even an adult is 20 minutes (see: wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_span)
  
  
• It’s physiologically impossible to become mature until your 20’s (see:  wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontal_lobe), and you think teachers should expect maturity?
  
  
• God gave us a biological clock, and humans function best when they sleep at night and act in the day (see:  science.education.nih.gov), so kids are also suffering from sleep deprivation from having to get up so early while it's still dark to go to school.

Look at the huge differences in hours of education around the world:  infoplease.com/world/statistics/school-years.   Some are crazy abusive while others are at least sane about it. 

Then, we push them into a higher education system where the professors aren’t even trained to be teachers, force them to study subjects they have no interest in and then hand them a debt they’ll have to pay for a lifetime.  Sure, they earn degrees, but many times much of what they learn they don’t even need for their jobs—jobs they want for money—and the cost of that money is their lives ransomed for slavery to the credit system.

It makes me feel angry for the masses who are corralled by a invisible monster to pay blood through the nose to learn things they don’t want or need while getting unfairly kicked in the ass, scarred and then imprisoned for life to pay the debt for all that to the same monster. 

And what about those who were fortunate enough to escape the machine? Well, if life were fair, there would be more institutionalized educational credit given for life’s experiences--which ironically we are taught is truly the best way to learn; but, unfortunately, the education system isn't smart enought to fairly honor people for their life's work. At least we understand that many employers hire people with non-related degrees admitting that on-the-job training is where the bulk of the knowledge necessary for the position is attained.

Things are different than they were before, but our youth is paying a high price for it, emotionally and financially. Sure, we’re smart enough to go to the moon, but we’ll have to make sure we pack our Xanax, Zoloft and ADHD meds for the trip.  It’s wrong.

See:

College Dropouts Cite Low Money and High Stress

Student Loan Payback Strategies: Ray Martin Suggests Do's And Don'ts

George Carlin Speaks out on Education

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