Comments on: The Crisis in Education in Korea and the World https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/06/the-crisis-in-education-in-korea-and-the-world Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Magdy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/06/the-crisis-in-education-in-korea-and-the-world#comment-119533 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:03:53 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4198#comment-119533 But may be The President of USA is being over excited as Korea is doing what any other niaton would want , balance of power ‚its the right of the country & state itself what if people of any other country decide for USA? i am sure they will do the same (as in the past)& secondly it will enhance the hatred against the Americans & what i belive is Bush has done enough regarding the image of the niaton today for the other world so my conclusion is its just another tool to keep people diverted for another year or two,today i feel as blessed as any American cause the common people are always being played by the so called leaders of State.

]]> By: Lara Tosh https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/06/the-crisis-in-education-in-korea-and-the-world#comment-112493 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:38:55 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4198#comment-112493 Korean culture seems to only respond to anything in an after-the-fact, band-aid on a gunshot wound fashion. The concept of responding in a proactive fashion is, sadly, lost on most of the population which holds positions in “leadership” (as you mentioned, the CEO model-based Korean concept is actually “followership” in a party dress ;-) ). Many of these so-called leaders suffer from of a nasty case of rectal tunnel vision — and typical passivity.

People will wake up shortly after it appears as if it’s “too late” (a subjective, loaded, multidimensional concept). Intense-enough pain must first be felt: keeping things as they are must first become more uncomfortable than making changes ;-)

]]> By: J. Savage https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/06/the-crisis-in-education-in-korea-and-the-world#comment-112364 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:48:30 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4198#comment-112364 Excellent article. All that I can say is that the ideas you’ve espoused give me hope. If in our accelerated and focused technological achievement we become literary and spiritual barbarians, then I’m certain that the future will not be a pretty one. Nor a friendly one.. Trading power and control for wisdom is the perfect recipe for disaster. I also appreciate the point you make about how the pinnacle of many educational models is so algorithmic by nature that a machine could do its students’ work. This is relevant of course, because it is becoming possible that machines will do this work.

]]> By: Emanuel Pastreich https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/06/the-crisis-in-education-in-korea-and-the-world#comment-112073 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:55:21 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4198#comment-112073 Well I certainly think that the rapid advances in technology have created a crisis in education, and one that goes far beyond the tendency of students to compete against computers in an effort that increasingly flattens out their world. The question of what is real, made so much more ambiguous as a result of the increasing cheapness of mechanical reproduction also has undermined much.

]]> By: James Bach https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/06/the-crisis-in-education-in-korea-and-the-world#comment-112068 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:53:15 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4198#comment-112068 I don’t see this crisis in my personal life. I quit school when I was 16. My son quit when he was 12. We simply opted out.

Today, I support myself as a software testing consultant. My son could support himself as an IT support guy or an aquarium builder, with the skills he has picked up in his teens. But he is not sure what he wants to do.

There are at least several thousand children in the United States whose parents have allowed them to or else kept them out of school. As far as I know, no statistics are kept on us. I’m estimating the number based on the parents and children I have personally seen at unschooling conferences.

Unschooling goes along with asserting ourselves as part of a free society. It goes along with rejecting the propaganda eternally gurgitated from the education system, which seeks to convince the public (and does so with great success) that they are helpless and stupid unless they “get educated” by an institution.

But education cannot be granted by any institution. Education is self-constructed. This construction process may certainly be aided by a school. I can accept that many people wish for that sort of aid. But nobody NEEDS a school to become educated. Schoolism is a modern hysteria, and the true crisis in schooling is simply the inevitable destruction of the illusion that school is necessary.

There IS something of a crisis in education, if by that we are speaking of how to feed the economic engines of the world with fresh fuel in the form of kids willing and able to perform the work under the traditional conditions of the workplace. Maybe it’s getting worse, but this is an old problem. We were complaining about it at Apple Computer 25 years ago. The answer is really quite simple, however: businesses need to stop expecting universities to solve their problem. Instead, businesses must expect to do their own training. This is especially true for the computing field, where in my own area of software testing there has never been an adequate software testing curriculum based in any university.

There are amazing resources online for people to learn all kinds of things. Self-education has never been so easy. The one thing I think we need to do as a matter of public policy is to make research papers in scholarly journals open and free to the public.

– James Bach
Author: Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar
Author: Lessons Learned in Software Testing

]]> By: Judith Light Feather https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/06/the-crisis-in-education-in-korea-and-the-world#comment-111997 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:57:36 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4198#comment-111997 A very timely and thoughtful article on the condition of education globally. One of our projects was to combine art and nanoscience, but it only took a few years for the art to become totally digital manipulation of the scans provided. The first two years we actually had artists creating paintings from the STM scans, along with sculptures that were amazing. We try to address nanoscale science as the foundation of nature in the atomic realm that could be understood in the early k-12 grades, but all education in the U.S. is a ‘top down’ decision based on standards and testing, which is a total failure. The workforce training for technicians does not draw many students as they are not exposed to nanoscience in the early years. The next issue to address is robotics in manufacturing that will eliminate the few jobs that they are being trained for by the time they graduate. We have a lot of issues to resolve globally, but every small decision takes a decade to implement and we just don’t have that much time. Our students will not have careers, they will not have lifetime jobs, they will continually need lifetime learning to find any means of supporting themselves and we need to look deeper at what we are creating as a technological future that displaces humans. We all need to address these issues whenever possible as they are already creating serious societal implications as this Professor has pointed our so eloquently in his article. Our short term focus of problem solving versus long term solutions embracing the larger concept of our actions will backfire in this decade. Student suicides are increasing globally as this generation is forced into enormous debt for educations that have no future.
Respectfully,
Judith

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