Do No Evil – How nonconformity, not rote learning, unlocked his genius.
We can think our lucky stars that he was kicked out of Germany before the war with us started. I like your comment HealthDoctor and would add that the solutions to some problems we face come from hands on practical folks.
Yes, except he worked at the Swiss patent office.
Actually I could see where working in a patent office could do wonders for someone who is heading to becoming a scientist....afterall, most of the things being patented involve science and for an up and coming student it would be great training to review what other people are doing and thinking....I know that during my high school and college years, instead of going to study halls, sports or the cafeteria when I had open periods, I spent my time in the libraries, which gave me access to many educational sources that were never brought up in any classes. Many times teachers or professors were amazed at how much I knew about topics that they had just begun to teach. And sometimes I knew more about what they were teaching than they did. And this was before the internet. It was even before calculators and computers. I could finish math and even calculus tests in a very short time, even though sometimes I could not explain how I came up with the answer. Data in, answer out like a computer.
This is a little presumptuous to think that by letting people act like Einstein we would create a whole slew of geniouses. Regardless of what you do an Einstein comes along maybe once a century. His knowledge of math and science produced the now famous E=m(csquared). So don't think for a minute that you shouldn't learn Math and science as a basis for your intelligence. How many people do you know that will tell you how much they love math and science. Not many. So there has to be some structure here. To act like Einstein, no. We need to have our parents and teachers instill in children the importance of learning.
Actually we need to teach more basic eduation at younger ages insteasd of the leftist feel good BS that is done now. No more BS about global warming until the students have had enough courses in science to understand it. No more putting condoms on bananas for first graders. No more Debbie had two mommies. No more teaching multiculturalism to second graders. No more of any othe that bovine excrement. Teach the basic first. Reading, comprehension, spelling, math, basic sciences, basic history, basic geography....etc...
actually there are alot af geniuses today. many of them were held back by the system because their creativity was seen as childish or something. I knew a few in school who would try to do harder work for credit because what was being taught was to easy, and not only did they not get credit for their work they got low marks because they refused to do work that was beneath their level
Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
And for many years we had an education system that nurtured creativity, rather than undermining it....but then the unions got involved in teaching and they stifled it and put the communist plan into effect which was to dumb down our educational system.....Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books. Congressional Record 1963
How would you stifle any einsteins by memorizing you times tables? I don't have a problem with creating a better educational system, but so far they haven't come up with anything that works any better than the old method. Regardless of what method we come up with, we must impress upon the young kids how important an education is and to eagerly embrace learning. We are losing a generation of kids through offering too many non beneficial curricula.
I disagree. I for one have studied the Vedic methods of mathematics. For each potential problem solved using western methods, the Vedic system (from India) has supplied answers with algorithms far faster than those used in the US. For example, children who can barely add and subtract can find the repeating decimal version of 1/19. They do it not from memory, but from using a proven method.
We have ways of teaching children outside the box, but they do not fall into the traditional teaching methods or the get 'em ready for the test approach.
I liked the artical and we really don't need rebels, what we need is teachers and professors that don't get upset when students ask why. when I was in school my science teacher in high school told me not to question things just accept it.
I also have to agree with the idea of spending more time on what I call basic education,math,science and english.
One idea I have would be to show kids the reason for learning math by setting up simulated business applications for the kids to get involved in making decisions to keep the business in the black and make a profit. I use to hate algebra, but after mastering it, think that most problems could be address with an algebraic mentality. Algebra promotes rational thought processes and is the common language that connects us to real world solutions.
the arts, from writing to painting to music, promote imagination/ creativity...couple that with logical reasoning from the sciences and you get innovation. we need to equalize the importance of the arts in our schools.
some things may not show an immediate benefit but have long term benefits.
we also need to stop utilizing a system that essentials makes college the only acceptable end goal. some kids should go to college, some should go to trade school, some to art school, and some should join the workforce. this doesn't make any one choice better or worse objectively, but one choice may be better indivdual. cuz individuals are very different, you may have noticed.
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Go, Albert! Have you ever thought that the 'no child left behind' focus on learning a certain set of facts so students can pass standardized tests leaves little room for creativity and ingenuity? We'll have little drones who know all the same answers to all the same questions. We need people like Einstein who are free to ask new questions and derive new answers to old questions. That requires a change in how schools and education are organized in the U.S.
Talk to an educator or anyone in early childhood development and see what they think of the moronic "no child left behind". I don't know about other states, but in mine the schools spend more time on teaching the kids how to "test" and pass, then in actual teaching, creative or otherwise :(
true
and........ where does this lead?
to a society full of ignorant people
sad, very sad
that's what they want. if you are stupid, you don't know when the government is lying to you.
Government always lie... It's the truth!
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Seriously, my kid is off to college next year, and his penmanship is illegible, he is used to getting a rubric that oulines every single thing he needs todo for his projects and papers, that I doubt he knows how to study and research on his own. Unless college has changed majorly in the past eon, I think he's gonna have a tough year ahead of him, next year.
elel:Talk to an educator or anyone in early childhood development and see what they think of the moronic "no child left behind"
Well it was a Ted Kennedy plan.
Edward M. Kennedy
March 28, 2007
Five years ago, Congress and President Bush made a bold and historic promise. We pledged in the No Child Left Behind Act that the federal government would do all in its power to guarantee every child in America, regardless of race, economic background, language or disability, the opportunity to get a world-class education.
We have made progress toward fulfilling that commitment. Before the act was passed, most states lacked ways to track student progress and teacher effectiveness. Many state accountability requirements had no commitment to improving education for every child. Only four states had approved assessments that tracked and reported the achievement of every group of students in their schools.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/2007032...
thank you for the link, but I don't care who started it, it's still moronic :)
Right, My 7 yr old is being "left behind" because he already knows almost all the answers, and they are giving him markdowns cuz he is so eager to tell them.
NCLB works fine if schools are a business and children are automatons. Neither is the case. Children (and adults) learn at varied paces and with varied interest levels. If we are busy differentiating instruction to meet the needs of each child, how do we in turn prepare kids for these stupid wastes of time (I mean tests).
HealthDoctor:We need people like Einstein who are free to ask new questions and derive new answers to old questions.
But that will never be allowed in the DemLibs neo commie controlled schol system.....all they want to do is dumb down the population so that they will always have a dependent class that does not understand what the DemLibs are doing to them....just look at the DemLib lemmings who are being scammed by Al Gore and the UN on global warming......or the ones who are falling the insane rantings of Rosie ODonnell and the rest of the leftist Hollyweird maroons..
"Democracy means government by the uneducated" G. K. Chesterton
"Democracy is election by the incompetent many" |George Bernard Shaw
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." JFK
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." oscar Wilde
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them"
"A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment"
Aristotle
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence" Bob Dylan
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses." HL Menken
"Democracy is nothing more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" James Bovard
"Democracy is the road to socialism." Karl Marx
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant." John Simon
"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions" Noam Chomsky
"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
Adlai Stevenson
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury."
Alexander Tytler
And this Democracy gives you the right of free speech. I do like your list but Most of what you just said can be played on either side of the spectrum. I may not agree with your see where your coming from and want to go. You have a tendency to be wanting to bring on a conflict anywhere you can. Heres an idea get something that isnt from the Populist America website. There are many other websites out there. Try one and be educated for a change so we dont have to deal with the un-educated.
I dont know what I clicked but I apologize for saying your related with Pop America or that you dont look at many sources. After my wife asked, I looked again to find that I mistake you for someone else. My bad, though I meant everything before the "Heres an idea"
Al knows whats going on in the environment because he knows how to QUESTION AUTHORITY! Dude we may not be the only ones at fault but CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING!!!