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Originally Posted by nostatic
What competitors are you talking about? I have a bit of experience with the Chinese education system. Actually I think their design plays to our advantage. They focus on drill and test, to the detriment of creativity. They are not evolving in a long-term fashion, but instead blossoming on the back of cheap labor and lots of natural resources. That can't be sustained.
Our education system has gone backwards imho, largely based on the insistence of focusing on lowest-common-demoninator metrics (ie standardized tests). I'm all for the three R's, but they need to be contextualized for the new world. Visual literacy is a key to success, but we don't really teach that.
The war on terror is real, but our approach to it is ham-fisted and antiquated. There are other ways...
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Drill and test was the standard for years...coupled with Latin and literature and ethics and math. It was the formula that, IMHO, made us into the engine of progress we are. Faults? Yes. But I would not trade my classic Catholic school education for any other...give me a workable alternative.
From a strong foundation comes creativity...and that foundation should include visual literacy, which I would, as UAV PM, love to talk to you about. Drill and test, in the proper amounts, makes creativity almost certain because thought requires discipline.
I have been to the war on terror, and I agree with your assessment...but we are fighting antiquity, which is brutish.