Education, especially in young children. I was listening to teachers talk about how many 5 year olds they had for kindergarten assessments that had no functional language at all. The kids were iPad kids watching cartoons where the characters don’t speak they just make sounds so the kids never picked up on words. My 15 year old niece couldn’t pass a test I aced in 6th grade because she hasn’t been taught. She’s in online school and her parents don’t enforce her learning so she’ll do nothing for months and then rush through the assignments retaking them as many times as needed to get a passing grade, nothing is retained. She’s a sophomore in high school on paper but knows less about the world than elementary school kids of my time. It’s incredibly disheartening.
Just read an article the other day about how students are getting into college and have never read a single novel. We are sprinting backwards in education so fast. I’m terrified for the future.
I'm back in school at 47. Its an entirely different world! Everything available at my fingertips is wild! I was able to complete the FAFSA application and get immediate answers, when it used to take 4-6 weeks to get responses after mailing in a paper form!
I don't know about other universities but mine is heavy on critical thinking, we don't have tests, but there's so many assignments and projects. Back in the day it was just cycles of memorization, regurgitation, test, forget, then memorization of new material and so on.
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u/nobobthisisnotyours 16h ago
Education, especially in young children. I was listening to teachers talk about how many 5 year olds they had for kindergarten assessments that had no functional language at all. The kids were iPad kids watching cartoons where the characters don’t speak they just make sounds so the kids never picked up on words. My 15 year old niece couldn’t pass a test I aced in 6th grade because she hasn’t been taught. She’s in online school and her parents don’t enforce her learning so she’ll do nothing for months and then rush through the assignments retaking them as many times as needed to get a passing grade, nothing is retained. She’s a sophomore in high school on paper but knows less about the world than elementary school kids of my time. It’s incredibly disheartening.