The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice - Fredrik deBoer
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Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform.
Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved.
In The Cult of Smart, educator Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability.
Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that we believe, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place.
This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
August 9th, 2020
Something to think about.
Thanks daenigma
August 9th, 2020
“How Our Broken Education System” ?
Who does “our” refer to?
Probably American - they always assume they’re the only people on the planet.
August 9th, 2020
@nylon
Yeah, if you see a question on a forum with “is X legal” without saying where they are you can be 99% sure of the answer.
Pretty dumb, since even within the US laws are quite different from state to state.
August 9th, 2020
Secret to a good education:
Both parents at home. And get along well.
Fair, Firm, and Consistent with the child.
Set reasonable expectations for the child, based upon their skills.
Limited TV and other digital devices during a school week
Demand high standards from the teachers. Remove those that can’t pass State Teachers Boards.
Teach the 3 R’s, not useless “touchy feely” crap
Be involved with the school from day one.
August 9th, 2020
…and both parents reading to the child, create a love of books & hunger for knowledge. Appropriately stimulating environments are also really conducive towards accelerated learning.
August 9th, 2020
We should probably come up with a device that will dumb down the smart kids to the dumb kid’s level.
August 10th, 2020
@ jmorrr - Isn’t that TV?
August 11th, 2020
@daenigma100: when filling in the upload form, can you please include the bitrate (read off from mediainfo, e.g.) and the narrator (usually announced at the beginning if not elsewhere documented).
Thanks
August 22nd, 2020
I’ve got news for, Fredrik deBoer, the central flaw of our entire society, is the disintegration of the natural family, which has done more to create and perpetuate inequality in intellectual, psychological, emotional, social, and economic categories.
“Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all.” -Summary
This is exactly why it all starts at home!!! The government doesn’t even know how to take care of its own business, let alone, family business. And the American Psychological Association? Well, as they base more and more of their theories on the thin air cushion between society and pop-culture, they have proven that with all the intellectual fortitude that equality can muster, a comprehensive accumulation of elitist education still doesn’t hold a candle to hard work and personal effort.
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