Professori
Professori
Today you can be as stupid as a cabbage and still ace the exams and tests at school/university, then emerge with a degree but still be as stupid as a cabbage. Not everyone, of course because I generalise. However, if you learn how to beat the system by finding out how to pass standardized tests and write assignments, then bingo! That may be beating the system, but it definitely is not learning or education.
One thing I have learned about Aspies and that is that they struggle to think linearly - in other words, think mechanically, like little programmed robots. That is a major reason why it is so difficult for those on the spectrum to fit into the standardized box. But then all humans are complex in thinking and behaviour ... as kids, that is, and then comes 'education' and even creativity and all of our individuality, curiosity and free thinking is 'educated' right out of us.
As a result, thousands are left out, 'uneducated' and because the system rejects them they feel they are stupid and untalented. The lost potential is enormous. And I am addressing those on the spectrum here, and anybody else who may be different (different from what?). How many feel lost, have nothing to give, can't fit in?
The point is that education is supposed to be focussed on drawing out individual potential and stimulating critical-thinking skills that are ready to be brought into full blossom? Did you not feel rejected, chewed up by a system that just could not get into your head?
I have read Hanson's comments on autistic children. I know there is a separate thread on her comments, but I would like to address an issue which emerges from it. So, to repeat, the whole of the education system is structured around conformity and standardization, dating back to the industrial revolution and mass production, specialization.
Everywhere you look you will find customization, the focus on the individual, but the moment you get to the door of education, conformity and standardization becomes the focus. Why? Because the focus is more on making life easier for educators than for those being educated. Plus, the effort is to prime kids for jobs - forming their economic exchange value on the market. That definitely is not education.
Another thread asked why 'they' will not accept creative intelligence. Simple: because it does not fit into a standardized box which essentially is what 'education' aims at today. A system actually becomes destructive rather than creative itself.
So, why not put autistic kids in special classes, and then those with ADHD, then those with OCD, then those with Touret's, etc, etc, etc? The world talks about embracing diversity, but this certainly does not apply to anyone thinking or structured differently. Then you are in a different box.
In 1962 a song was recorded about everyone being like little boxes made of ticky-tacky, little boxes, just the same. That is the focus of education today, no matter how alienating. Nothing new, just an observation.
One thing I have learned about Aspies and that is that they struggle to think linearly - in other words, think mechanically, like little programmed robots. That is a major reason why it is so difficult for those on the spectrum to fit into the standardized box. But then all humans are complex in thinking and behaviour ... as kids, that is, and then comes 'education' and even creativity and all of our individuality, curiosity and free thinking is 'educated' right out of us.
As a result, thousands are left out, 'uneducated' and because the system rejects them they feel they are stupid and untalented. The lost potential is enormous. And I am addressing those on the spectrum here, and anybody else who may be different (different from what?). How many feel lost, have nothing to give, can't fit in?
The point is that education is supposed to be focussed on drawing out individual potential and stimulating critical-thinking skills that are ready to be brought into full blossom? Did you not feel rejected, chewed up by a system that just could not get into your head?
I have read Hanson's comments on autistic children. I know there is a separate thread on her comments, but I would like to address an issue which emerges from it. So, to repeat, the whole of the education system is structured around conformity and standardization, dating back to the industrial revolution and mass production, specialization.
Everywhere you look you will find customization, the focus on the individual, but the moment you get to the door of education, conformity and standardization becomes the focus. Why? Because the focus is more on making life easier for educators than for those being educated. Plus, the effort is to prime kids for jobs - forming their economic exchange value on the market. That definitely is not education.
Another thread asked why 'they' will not accept creative intelligence. Simple: because it does not fit into a standardized box which essentially is what 'education' aims at today. A system actually becomes destructive rather than creative itself.
So, why not put autistic kids in special classes, and then those with ADHD, then those with OCD, then those with Touret's, etc, etc, etc? The world talks about embracing diversity, but this certainly does not apply to anyone thinking or structured differently. Then you are in a different box.
In 1962 a song was recorded about everyone being like little boxes made of ticky-tacky, little boxes, just the same. That is the focus of education today, no matter how alienating. Nothing new, just an observation.
