Posted on 02/27/2014 at 02:41 PM
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I often think the U.S. education system should be more focused than it is on the real world, but the other extreme can have its drawbacks as well, I see. Personally, I think education should reflect the real world as much as possible. I remember learning about other schools that had mini "court systems" for disciplinary measures and students would represent themselves in court (or maybe they had five-year-old lawyers, I forget) if upset with something they got in trouble for. I think a good way to incorporate that into other areas of study, but still have a well-rounded education might be to always have the kids simulate something in the real world related to what they're learning. For example, maybe you could have done both art and math, but for your art class chosen to sell your drawings and see how successful a series you created would be, and for math courses you could have built things people needed using engineering math. The school would have its own economic system based on some form of Monopoly money, and taxes would go to math people helping create a bridge and if art kids wanted to make a school-appropriate comic book, they could sell it within the context of said economic system.
There's a lot that could go wrong and would have to be changed, but I like thinking about how to change education systems creatively, cause what the U.S. and specifically Texas is doing, teaching towards a test, is horrible.
Anyway, yeah, I like faces.