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While this is very true, I personally believe that the subpar education standards are not only a result of malicious intent, but also (and maybe even more so) of a self-perpetuating cycle of incompetency. Most people only possess average intelligence and motivation to learn, which is extremely low compared to people who are actually intelligent and willing to learn. This means that the vast majority of educators are - plainly speaking - dumb as shit. Because they are dumb as shit, they don't recognize actual intelligence and instead they only trust their given curriculum, which doesn't test intelligence but conformity and - to a lesser degree - industriousness (or, alternatively, willingness to cheat). This results in a huge amount of averagely intelligent people being admitted to universities and becoming educators themselves, which again perpetuates this cycle.I 100% agree but it is not in the interest of those in power to have those they wish to (or have) power over to THINK because then you might start to question what you are told to do and believe.
And that unfortunately also includes educators. I once asked a very intelligent friend of mine (who has both Pharmaceutical and Law degrees) how tough law school was. He laughed and said "Any one can graduate Law school it only teaches you fear of God ........ and that every professor thinks he is God."
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I can speak volumes about this topic. I'm currently studying to become a math teacher and in my country, there is a big movement among math education students to change the university curriculum, so that they get less math and more "didactics" (which is another word for bullshit) courses. The reasoning behind this is that the math courses are "too hard" for the average math education student. The worst part about this is that many professors support this cause. How does this make sense??? How can someone who is too bad at math to pass math courses even think he is able to be a good math teacher???
These people are bad at math because their math teachers sucked, and now they want to lower the standards so they themselves can become even worse math teachers and educate a generation of even worse math students! Do you see the pattern?
In a way, it works like entropy.
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