Comments on: Come On Everyone, Let's Make A Joke Out Of The American Education System! http://ouryouthvoice.com/?p=515 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:46:12 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://ouryouthvoice.com/?p=515#comment-602 admin Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:51:27 +0000 http://ouryouthvoice.com/?p=515#comment-602 As I read your comment, there were a few thoughts that popped into my mind. Maybe a fix in the education system would help this economic situation... In other countries, they don't test students as much as they do in the US. Tests are pointless... I'm trying to go to a college in New York... but not Bard. Bard turned out to be some sort of a private high school that gives you college credits, but isn't actually a college. I want to go to a legitimate university. As I read your comment, there were a few thoughts that popped into my mind.

Maybe a fix in the education system would help this economic situation…
In other countries, they don’t test students as much as they do in the US. Tests are pointless…
I’m trying to go to a college in New York… but not Bard. Bard turned out to be some sort of a private high school that gives you college credits, but isn’t actually a college. I want to go to a legitimate university.

]]> By: FATMAN http://ouryouthvoice.com/?p=515#comment-601 FATMAN Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:54:14 +0000 http://ouryouthvoice.com/?p=515#comment-601 Sure, the education system does its job of expanding the creative minds of millions of students, then crushes them with a lack of realistic use until graduating from an overly expensive college and eleven to thirteen years of blatantly monotonous work taught by people that don't know how to teach. We definitely should not get rid of the education system, but a reform would be extremely helpful. An education system based around application and not testing would require students to understand concepts in and out rather than have a general idea for a short peiod of time. But I'm just fantacizing, theres no way such a system could be created right now, what with the economy in shables and the excessive amounts of money still being used on an education system that just had its funds removed. Looks like it'll be like this for a while. Well, congratulations on the early graduation, I don't understand why anyone would call you crazy. And which college are you going to? The Bard one (can't exactly remember the name)? Sure, the education system does its job of expanding the creative minds of millions of students, then crushes them with a lack of realistic use until graduating from an overly expensive college and eleven to thirteen years of blatantly monotonous work taught by people that don’t know how to teach. We definitely should not get rid of the education system, but a reform would be extremely helpful. An education system based around application and not testing would require students to understand concepts in and out rather than have a general idea for a short peiod of time. But I’m just fantacizing, theres no way such a system could be created right now, what with the economy in shables and the excessive amounts of money still being used on an education system that just had its funds removed. Looks like it’ll be like this for a while. Well, congratulations on the early graduation, I don’t understand why anyone would call you crazy. And which college are you going to? The Bard one (can’t exactly remember the name)?

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