jurgwena

would you agree that in a world where the "right" (in the sense of economically desirable) skills at any moment presents a moving target, our schools should be focused on teaching critical thinking skills, rather than how to succeed on standardized tests?

Are you familiar with a guy named John Taylor Gatto? He won multiple Teacher of the year awards in NY and claims he did so by breaking the law. One of the lines from a lecture he gave is something like "genius is common as dirt." He also says that our educational system has been built from the ground up to churn out mediocre minds.