#School Reforms

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digital fulcrum
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What are your thoughts on schooling and what reforms do you believe are best for your nations school system.

restive kettle
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Let's define the goals of education first - we might be able to provide better answers then. For me, it would be the empowered adult, capable of handling life on individual and social levels while striving for a truly democratic and positive community on macro and functional and loving family on micro levels.

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The helpfull skills for such an endeavor could flourish from different roots: the family, playful interactions with friends, sports, formal training in school, travel, self-education, private trainings, etc.

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I think we already have lots of empirical knowledge about supporting institutions and actions, but an empowered and potentially rebellious person isn't necessarily a training goal of our political elites

digital fulcrum
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agreed that political elites seek to damage the education of the average person but I would disagree that empowerment is necessarily good

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Too many empowered people means a society will be torn apart by infighting

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cause empowerment often leads most to arrogance but I digress

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I more so am focusing the question into a more personal nature

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What do YOU believe your nation could do better to educate its youth

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this can be acts such as abolishing standardized testing providing more mental health options or simply hiring more qualified teachers.

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I want to know what flaws people see in their own nations educations and their proposed solutions

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for me personally I think schools need to provide more speaking training

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The majority of youth have zero public speaking skills and are incapable of giving a good presentation because they suffer from such severe social anxiety or are otherwise totally ignorant to how good public speaking sounds

restive kettle
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and compare your system to the top runners. Like Finland

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Then change accordingly

digital fulcrum
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not all data must be empirical in nature

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it can be subjective as well

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I want to know peoples own personal opinions as well

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we should look at what people want as well

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especially for prospective politicians like myself

copper lark
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"We need to teach students how to think" is easy to say, and ones ability to write and communicate is related to ones ability to think. Often challenged by social reality, I suspect that's why hermetic writers are such good thinkers. If I've become a decent critical thinker it was for lack of education and seeking it myself; an auto-didact. "Teaching" critical thinking is paradoxical.

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It's only gained from natural problem solving.