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To the children of the modern age and beyond
By Alan Baylis
When learning, why should we try for an A? Certainly there are
people who excel at some subjects while they fail others, but the
majority of people are average in most subjects. In schools the
average grade is a C, but the teachers (blindly following orders)
and the parents (following suit) push children to reach the upper
grades. This is done in the misconception that it will help enable
the children to get a job. While I was doing math in school I
wondered why there was an over emphasis on probability and matrices
to name but two fields. The most likely truth is that they are
directed towards the remaining areas of the unknown. For example,
probability is now used to explain the inner working of the
sub-atomic realm and matrices are the core of high level 3D
rendering. So the schools are teaching levels of these subjects that
far transcend the needs of commerce or general industry so that they
can push the frontiers of human knowledge. But it is at the expense
of the children's sanity.
If the children survive the ordeal of selection and categorization
and do go on to discover new areas of knowledge then the knowledge
will most likely only be used to produce a new range of white goods
or a switch that is guaranteed to break after 200 uses to further
the practice of built in redundancy. And as planned, the majority of
the children will leave the school system disheartened and broken to
the point that they will believe that they failed. In reality they
know more than many of the great thinkers of history. At the time
when Einstein conceived of the theory of relativity it was reported
that only two people on the planet could understand it, but now
(only sixty years or so later) it is taught as elementary physics.
Are the children being taught to feed themselves or work for a paint
company that requires a new compound?
See the Bible for the true needs of the people and for spiritual
knowledge. (yeah, that strange subject about different levels of
existence.)
