Teachers Are Making Us Stupid.

I recently watched the video that Austin Baughan posted titled "Changing Education Paradigms" If you haven't had the chance to watch it, I highly recommend it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Within the video, he states that we ruining our capacity and ability to learn by standardizing everything. We go into school at a certain age and we are processed and filtered through the school systems and spit back out and expected to be a genius. Our public education systems are so focused on the one learning style, industry and the money that can be made, that we forget to actually LEARN IT! 


There is no such thing as a custom learning style, there is no accommodations in our present public schools. If you can't learn the material, at a fast pace and generate the specific response that the teacher desires then, I'm sorry you failed and that's just how it works. 

I know we have all grown up with this, and we are obviously are fairly proficient at it, otherwise we wouldn't be at this university, but what I am saying is that we have all been put on a production line and there is no room for creativity or deviation. Why do we have to learn about biology if we are a business major? They will never use it and as soon as they have finished their final exam, everything is wiped from their memory. All that hard work, hitting their heads against a wall and for what? To get a few letters behind their name? Does it really mean they have learned the material?


I don't believe it does. There are many smart people out there that are declined the chance to get an education and why? Because they aren't great at standardized tests? That is just ridiculous. 


It is the way that the public school system works and the teachers influence that learning process. They, aside from our digi civ teachers, have refused our ability to create, refused our ability to connect and WHY? When you can do it yourself, share it with others or teach someone else, it is not just a matter of regurgitation but a definite and factual learning that occurs. 


I have thought about this subject for years and have always wondered, what can we personally do about it? There has to be ways that we can influence the school systems so that our children don't have to be put on the production line. 




What can we do today?