Mongo e a educação

Nós que fomos programados neste sistema:

"the dominant model of public education is still fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else. (In 1899, William T. Harris, the US commissioner of education, celebrated the fact that US schools had developed the “appearance of a machine,” one that teaches the student “to behave in an orderly manner, to stay in his own place, and not get in the way of others.”) We don’t openly profess those values nowadays, but our educational system—which routinely tests kids on their ability to recall information and demonstrate mastery of a narrow set of skills—doubles down on the view that students are material to be processed, programmed, and quality-tested. School administrators prepare curriculum standards and “pacing guides” that tell teachers what to teach each day. Legions of managers supervise everything that happens in the classroom; in 2010 only 50 percent of public school staff members in the US were teachers."

Temos em dificuldade em o reconhecer.
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Este excelente artigo "How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses" dá conta de um exemplo do poder de Mongo na educação...

“We are like that burro,” he said. “Everything that is thrown at us is an opportunity to rise out of the well we are in.”

Uma das primeiras consequências da reinvenção da educação passará...

"The system as a whole educates millions and is slow to recognize or adopt successful innovation. It’s a system that was constructed almost two centuries ago to meet the needs of the industrial age. Now that our society and economy have evolved beyond that era, our schools must also be reinvented." 

... por deixar de ver a sua terra como uma parvónia sem futuro. O único local com futuro para um produto do sistema de educação actual é... a grande cidade do litoral.
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BTW, estes professores, gente disposta a questionar a tradição, a fugir da máquina de processar estudantes são uns heróis... e a sala de aula, como a sala da consulta médica, são sagradas, o professor é senhor de fazer o que muito bem entender lá dentro.