Schooling Ourselves in an Unequal America

[sirs]

I just skimmed the article but my general impression was it was a rich get richer poor get poorer cry into the wilderness.

Did she offer any realistic solutions to the problem? Other than confiscating half of Harvard's Endowment and divvying it up among the more need y schools

Apparently not

[kimba1]

That cant be right

China,japan,s.korea etc. are totally different from each other the asian model term has no meaning. To say this would require saying what is the common thread all these asian country have. I only know china whose education is partially based on the british system due to hong kong. I doubt the other countries has the same education.

Also note it said not enough imaginative,inventive,student. Meaning not as many as they like so possibly they have unrealstic demands on the amount . That sound like asian thinking to me

[BSB]

I think that essentially what they were saying was that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And the Asian model being too much work, too many hours, too many months of the year, makes for dull graduates, and uninspired workers.


BSB

[kimba1]

can`t put to words what I mean I`ll just post and hope you guys don`t think it`s stupid
something about people not likely follow advice


http://bigthink.com/videos/give-your-kids-binoculars-and-get-out-of-the-way

[BSB]

Kimba:

Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period. I don’t care about your economic background. I don’t care what town you’re born in, what city, what country. If you’re a child, you are curious about your environment. You’re overturning rocks. You’re plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you’re doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you. 

And so then so what do adults do? They say, “Don’t pluck the petals off the flowers. I just spent money on that. Don’t play with the egg. It might break. Don’t....”  Everything is a don’t. We spend the first year teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

So you get out of their way. And you know what you do? You put things in their midst that help them explore. Help ‘em explore. Why don’t you get a pair of binoculars, just leave it there one day? Watch ‘em pick it up. And watch ‘em look around. They’ll do all kinds of things with it.

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn’t just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. Not the full moon because there are no shadows cast when the moon is full; got to wait for it to be half moon or crescent moon, and look at the edge between light and dark with a simple pair of binoculars.

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that’s hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings -- and really your first thought is to look in people’s windows. So to look out of the space -- out of living space -- and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively. That’s what got me started on the universe. It might get some kids you know started the same way.

 

Directed / Produced by

Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd



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Well said Kimba.



BSB

 

 

[BT]

I was just thinking that the other day, how often we say no to kids.