If "Education" is the conferring of accumulated knowledge...

[Unkotare]

Like the rules of the road for driving, public education was worked out during the last century. Also like parallel parking, objective achievement tests have subsequently been eliminated as just too hard for students and their teachers.

Neither one of those has been eliminated.

 

[Woodznutz]

Critical thinking is essential to education.

Formalized critical thinking us pretty much limited to technical things, so its value is somewhat limited.

 

[surada]

Critical thinking has its limits.

How do you mean?

 

[Woodznutz]

How do you mean?

It's pretty much limited to technical projects.

 

[surada]

It's pretty much limited to technical projects.

Oh no it's not.

 

[Woodznutz]

Oh no it's not.

Do you think critical thinking has been applied to the pressing problems of the day?

 

[SweetSue92]

It's an idiomatic expression meaning, among other things, "an exercise in futility".

Reinvent the Wheel

Meaning of Idiom 'Reinvent the Wheel' To reinvent the wheel means to do something again, or try to improve something, that is already perfected and cannot be improved; to waste time by reproducing something that already exists. [note]Heacock, Paul. Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. Cambridge

www.idioms.online

I understand this but your question in itself is....bluntly....really dumb

We have to keep "reinventing the wheel" for two reasons:

1. New humans are born who need to be educated and
2. Knowledge updates. Or should we teach children how to play music from 8 tracks and type on typewriters?

Geez

 

[Woodznutz]

I understand this but your question in itself is....bluntly....really dumb

We have to keep "reinventing the wheel" for two reasons:

1. New humans are born who need to be educated and
2. Knowledge updates. Or should we teach children how to play music from 8 tracks and type on typewriters?

Geez

How is that working out for us.

We reinvented music back in the '60's. It went from singing to screaming, and from melody to noise.

And hasn't education been 'dumbed down' over the decades? Not a good reinvention.

How do you gauge the success (or failure) of education in America?

 

[SweetSue92]

How is that working out for us.

We reinvented music back in the '60's. It went from singing to screaming, and from melody to noise.

And hasn't education been 'dumbed down' over the decades? Not a good reinvention.

How do you gauge the success (or failure) of education in America?

ICYMI

the 70s was one of the golden ages of American songwriting--particularly the early 1970s