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"Sitting for 15 years": Why do we spend our lives at school and university?
Study is in full swing: thousands of schoolchildren and students are spending another year at their desks. Terms and loads are different depending on the severity of the regime.
The children were soldered for 11 years, after which they under threat of the army and parents will come to uni, where they will spend at least another four years.
After 15 years, a person will finally be released and throw away most of the knowledge over which he suffered all this time.
Estimates, which until recently were almost the meaning of life, are devalued like the ruble against the background of cheaper oil.
And after all this, he will send the children first to school, then to the national university. Tribute to traditions, the price of which is 15 years of a child’s life.
Ask any adult how often they learn from school or university. Let him count the logarithm, take the derivative, multiply or divide it into a column at least - even these operations cause difficulties for most graduates. But you did, you did.Where is it all?
Teaching a child to read, write and count is the job of parents, not school. Even if it were a school thing, it shouldn’t take that long. We are told that the study of mathematics develops abstract and logical thinking. If so, the geniuses of the exact sciences should be masters of oratory. After all, the more intelligent a person, the more powerful his arguments and the more he has listeners and admirers. Not far from the deputy mandate.
In the real world, the speech of some of the giants of thought teaching the same mathematics sounds incoherent and inexpressive. And scoundrels who did not shine in the sciences become first-class masters of demagoguery, whose logical chains will trouble the most pumped technician.
Why do the exact sciences, in the opinion of the majority, supposedly develop abstract thinking? What about music, literature, painting? The artist in real time calculates a lot of parameters: proportions, distance, shadows, the force of pressing a pencil, the depth of color, while not losing sight of the mental drawing. The musician must simultaneously see the inner gaze of chords, notes and pauses, control the force of pressing the instrument, synchronize the melody with the text and maintain the style. Why do you think the writer wrote his novel for so long, while drunk?
That's the difference between us: you train in gymnastics.
I train at everything.
- Socrates from "Peaceful Warrior"
The same can be said not only about logic and abstract thinking, but also in principle about the ability to think. The exact sciences certainly make the pot work. But not just them! There are many problems in life that require analysis and solutions that do not belong to physics or mathematics. You can train in the flexibility of the mind without doing calculations. And at the same time achieve even greater results.
We're not looking for easy ways!
Let’s say you want to learn how to push up from the floor 100 times. A friend of yours who knows how to do this advises you to get up at seven in the morning. Eat more meat and eggs, drink more water. Try to run at least every other day. Buy dumbbells and practice for half an hour a day. Visualize push-ups before bed.” With the same success, you can advise the future English translator to first learn Chinese, and the future motorist to master a motorcycle. This phenomenon is called the halo effect.Nassim Taleb describes it as follows:
Halo effectThis is when people mistakenly believe that someone who skis well will be just as good at running a pottery shop or a bank department, or that a good chess player will calculate all moves in advance in life.
Here is what the writer Alexander Nikonov says:
“Fool is a functional concept. In other words, you can be clever at one thing and a complete fool at another.”
Be brave in one thing and coward in another. At the desk, be in your plate, but at the board burn with shame. In the ring to fight like a born wrestler, and in the club to dance awkward as a shameful chicken. They say that if you want to overcome fear, do what you fear. No workarounds.
If you want to learn something, do it. If you want to paint, draw. Play the guitar, play it! Speaking Spanish is a good thing. From this point of view, the much-vaunted abstract thinking and logic that school mathematics supposedly develops are only suitable for school mathematics. That is, we solve quadratic equations with parameters in order to solve quadratic equations with parameters - no more, no less. Like Porthos, who "fights just because he fights."
Standing at the blackboard will not prepare for the presentation, solving the algebra problem will not help to calculate the employee’s KPI, and the task about the train leaving from point A to point B will not help much in logistics. School doesn’t prepare us for work, so why do we go there?
Why parents send their child to school
At school, we seem to be taught to solve problems that will be at the entrance. It is strange that after that all the same-graders enroll in preparatory courses. But let’s say you went to university, studied for 4-6 years, went to get a job. No experience? Get out of here. At the same time, rare citizens work in the specialty. In a good way, it would be necessary with their sciences so in the institute and stay, continue their study (or start teaching), as befits a researcher. But we want to go to the office.
As a result, even graduates of computer science departments draw most of the knowledge on the side, starting to work in IT not because of, but in spite of. The only plus they get is the crusts of technical universities and self-respect for having passed this hell.
Almost everything that a school and a university can give - test-control, test-exams and abstract knowledge - is not applicable in real life (except when a person goes to science).
“At school / university we are taught to learn” is a popular stupidity that serves to justify the years of life spent not understanding what. Our institutions have never assumed the function of “learning.” Teach a student to think? Maybe. Make me study? I guess. Knowledge? Let's say. But not teaching to learn. Otherwise, in a school or university course, there would be disciplines like “theory of learning” or “applied logic”.
Houston, we have a problem.
School and university, although they are a significant stage in human life, perform not the functions that are stated on the packaging. What can be expected from the children and impoverished teachers who are regularly draped from the district, being forced to hold a theater called “open lesson”, then arranging unnecessary sections of knowledge and re-certification of the teacher? And how many tears have been shed and nerves damaged because of independent, control, exams, which have nothing to do with real life. Or did your exam nerves teach you not to be nervous at work?
Our schools and universities not only conduct equalization in the interests of children, but also waste human potential. How much more fun it would be to go to school to solve real-world problems!
For example:
In the universities in droves are those who should go to vocational training or college. In the end, our universities - do not understand what. On the one hand, they prepare broad-minded theorists, on the other hand, these theorists forget everything the next day after receiving a diploma and go to beat the thresholds of companies where people with completely different knowledge and skills are needed. And the companies themselves indulge in inertial conservatism, demanding a diploma of higher education.
What parents do not want to admit
The education system in our country is an obligation with the siphoning of money. You can't go to college without a certificate. Therefore, parents are faced with a choice - either fully embed the child in this system, or leave him behind, making an outsider.
School and institute are not only security facilities, where they give dubious freshness of knowledge, fueled by endless tests for the sake of tests, but also a way to fuse a child from home. To throw into the world - let him cook in a group of random people and play "get a grade" or "don't be an outcast", as long as he does not walk around the streets.
As a result, all participants in the process from the Ministry of Education remain in business and receive their rations from the budget. Teachers dragon students, freeloaders from the district dragon teachers. Children learn to adapt and do unloved things.
Also interesting: Why learning the old-fashioned way won’t work anymore
Anatoly Sperkh: I think the school is turning into an instant drink
Insight comes only at the first interview, where it turns out that no one is interested in their assessments. They won't even ask about the specialty. What's the whole circus for?
Author: Yuri Palamarchuk
Source: ain.ua/2015/10/11/609082
The children were soldered for 11 years, after which they under threat of the army and parents will come to uni, where they will spend at least another four years.
After 15 years, a person will finally be released and throw away most of the knowledge over which he suffered all this time.
Estimates, which until recently were almost the meaning of life, are devalued like the ruble against the background of cheaper oil.
And after all this, he will send the children first to school, then to the national university. Tribute to traditions, the price of which is 15 years of a child’s life.
Ask any adult how often they learn from school or university. Let him count the logarithm, take the derivative, multiply or divide it into a column at least - even these operations cause difficulties for most graduates. But you did, you did.Where is it all?
Teaching a child to read, write and count is the job of parents, not school. Even if it were a school thing, it shouldn’t take that long. We are told that the study of mathematics develops abstract and logical thinking. If so, the geniuses of the exact sciences should be masters of oratory. After all, the more intelligent a person, the more powerful his arguments and the more he has listeners and admirers. Not far from the deputy mandate.
In the real world, the speech of some of the giants of thought teaching the same mathematics sounds incoherent and inexpressive. And scoundrels who did not shine in the sciences become first-class masters of demagoguery, whose logical chains will trouble the most pumped technician.
Why do the exact sciences, in the opinion of the majority, supposedly develop abstract thinking? What about music, literature, painting? The artist in real time calculates a lot of parameters: proportions, distance, shadows, the force of pressing a pencil, the depth of color, while not losing sight of the mental drawing. The musician must simultaneously see the inner gaze of chords, notes and pauses, control the force of pressing the instrument, synchronize the melody with the text and maintain the style. Why do you think the writer wrote his novel for so long, while drunk?
That's the difference between us: you train in gymnastics.
I train at everything.
- Socrates from "Peaceful Warrior"
The same can be said not only about logic and abstract thinking, but also in principle about the ability to think. The exact sciences certainly make the pot work. But not just them! There are many problems in life that require analysis and solutions that do not belong to physics or mathematics. You can train in the flexibility of the mind without doing calculations. And at the same time achieve even greater results.
We're not looking for easy ways!
Let’s say you want to learn how to push up from the floor 100 times. A friend of yours who knows how to do this advises you to get up at seven in the morning. Eat more meat and eggs, drink more water. Try to run at least every other day. Buy dumbbells and practice for half an hour a day. Visualize push-ups before bed.” With the same success, you can advise the future English translator to first learn Chinese, and the future motorist to master a motorcycle. This phenomenon is called the halo effect.Nassim Taleb describes it as follows:
Halo effectThis is when people mistakenly believe that someone who skis well will be just as good at running a pottery shop or a bank department, or that a good chess player will calculate all moves in advance in life.
Here is what the writer Alexander Nikonov says:
“Fool is a functional concept. In other words, you can be clever at one thing and a complete fool at another.”
Be brave in one thing and coward in another. At the desk, be in your plate, but at the board burn with shame. In the ring to fight like a born wrestler, and in the club to dance awkward as a shameful chicken. They say that if you want to overcome fear, do what you fear. No workarounds.
If you want to learn something, do it. If you want to paint, draw. Play the guitar, play it! Speaking Spanish is a good thing. From this point of view, the much-vaunted abstract thinking and logic that school mathematics supposedly develops are only suitable for school mathematics. That is, we solve quadratic equations with parameters in order to solve quadratic equations with parameters - no more, no less. Like Porthos, who "fights just because he fights."
Standing at the blackboard will not prepare for the presentation, solving the algebra problem will not help to calculate the employee’s KPI, and the task about the train leaving from point A to point B will not help much in logistics. School doesn’t prepare us for work, so why do we go there?
Why parents send their child to school
At school, we seem to be taught to solve problems that will be at the entrance. It is strange that after that all the same-graders enroll in preparatory courses. But let’s say you went to university, studied for 4-6 years, went to get a job. No experience? Get out of here. At the same time, rare citizens work in the specialty. In a good way, it would be necessary with their sciences so in the institute and stay, continue their study (or start teaching), as befits a researcher. But we want to go to the office.
As a result, even graduates of computer science departments draw most of the knowledge on the side, starting to work in IT not because of, but in spite of. The only plus they get is the crusts of technical universities and self-respect for having passed this hell.
Almost everything that a school and a university can give - test-control, test-exams and abstract knowledge - is not applicable in real life (except when a person goes to science).
“At school / university we are taught to learn” is a popular stupidity that serves to justify the years of life spent not understanding what. Our institutions have never assumed the function of “learning.” Teach a student to think? Maybe. Make me study? I guess. Knowledge? Let's say. But not teaching to learn. Otherwise, in a school or university course, there would be disciplines like “theory of learning” or “applied logic”.
Houston, we have a problem.
School and university, although they are a significant stage in human life, perform not the functions that are stated on the packaging. What can be expected from the children and impoverished teachers who are regularly draped from the district, being forced to hold a theater called “open lesson”, then arranging unnecessary sections of knowledge and re-certification of the teacher? And how many tears have been shed and nerves damaged because of independent, control, exams, which have nothing to do with real life. Or did your exam nerves teach you not to be nervous at work?
Our schools and universities not only conduct equalization in the interests of children, but also waste human potential. How much more fun it would be to go to school to solve real-world problems!
For example:
- LaborConnect a new outlet, assemble a table for sale, learn how to weld pipes.
- Mathematics- learn to count in mind the volume of figures, percentages, change in the store.
- physics- to build an experimental model of the aircraft on radio control.
- LiteratureOrganize the publication of a school weekly.
- Music.- come up with a song or write a cover of a song of your favorite band.
- RightCreate a law or petition that collects more than 25,000 signatures.
- Drawing- develop a corporate style of the class.
In the universities in droves are those who should go to vocational training or college. In the end, our universities - do not understand what. On the one hand, they prepare broad-minded theorists, on the other hand, these theorists forget everything the next day after receiving a diploma and go to beat the thresholds of companies where people with completely different knowledge and skills are needed. And the companies themselves indulge in inertial conservatism, demanding a diploma of higher education.
What parents do not want to admit
The education system in our country is an obligation with the siphoning of money. You can't go to college without a certificate. Therefore, parents are faced with a choice - either fully embed the child in this system, or leave him behind, making an outsider.
School and institute are not only security facilities, where they give dubious freshness of knowledge, fueled by endless tests for the sake of tests, but also a way to fuse a child from home. To throw into the world - let him cook in a group of random people and play "get a grade" or "don't be an outcast", as long as he does not walk around the streets.
As a result, all participants in the process from the Ministry of Education remain in business and receive their rations from the budget. Teachers dragon students, freeloaders from the district dragon teachers. Children learn to adapt and do unloved things.
Also interesting: Why learning the old-fashioned way won’t work anymore
Anatoly Sperkh: I think the school is turning into an instant drink
Insight comes only at the first interview, where it turns out that no one is interested in their assessments. They won't even ask about the specialty. What's the whole circus for?
Author: Yuri Palamarchuk
Source: ain.ua/2015/10/11/609082
