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That’s the argument of this article. And I agree, my kids studied harder than I did, took tougher classes, and outdid my SAT scores by a considerable margin:
You’re not imagining it: Kids today really are smarter than we were. Test scores prove it. (msn.com)
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I do agree that our kids are way beyond me in education. But their work ethic absolutely sucks. I love my kids and think they will do ok in life, but am shocked at how willing today’s youths are to just sit around and do nothing.
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Interesting topic. They are not smarter but they know more because they have the answer book at their finger tips. A 7th grader can easily look up how to hang a door or how Nicola Tesla’s original AC induction motor worked in short time. What’s a derivative? Everything, in detail, is there for the asking. No more slide rules.
An organic chemistry professor I know well at a very prestigeous university told me what he sees in today’s students. My question to him was how often he comes across a brilliant student. He estimated about 1 in 200. Said they came up with solutions that he had never considered. He talked about grading and said these kids needed a A in organic to get in med school so the pressure was enormous. He was a very tough grader. The A students of course needed a recommendation from him to get into med school and he began to notice something odd. He decided that when they came to him that he would find out how much they knew about organic chemistry. To quote him “many A students didn’t know shit”. How could this be? Turns out many of them were memory experts and could memorize anything and not understand it. He also noticed that many of the A students in classroom work were C students and lab work. The reverse held true. C students in class were often A students in Lab.
He went on to talk about highly motivated students with poor primary or secondary training. Said kids needed to be well grounded in math. He felt that if you did not learn math early no level of motivation could help you learn it later on no matter how hard you tried. He felt the brain had to be wired for math early in a child’s development.
He also noted that the department slowly gutted the course content by nearly 40% to solve that problem.
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“He also noted that the department slowly gutted the course content by nearly 40% to solve that problem.”
a tragedy that is happening in almost every institution in America. Can’t pass the test? Ditch the test.
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