In Order of Importance
1. Get rid of the Department of Education and leave education up to individual communities as was intended by the founders
2. Teach values beyond "get what you can, your personal enjoyment is all that matters"
3. Teach boys like boys, not like defective girls who need to be put on psychotropic drugs
4. Teach basic economics
5. Let teachers fail and fire them, even if they have tenure
6. Let students fail
7. Get rid of standardised tests, they are counterproductive
8. Get rid of homework, it's counterproductive
9. Stop teaching self esteem and feel-good-ism
10. Graduation should mean employment
As Swami says:
Education must train the children to love,
to co-operate, to be brave in the cause of truth, to be
helpful, to be sympathetic and to be grateful. Dear
children! Revere your parents, elders and teachers, be
humble before them and respect their experience and deeper
love for you. You must follow these virtues consistently
and strictly. The educators, elders and parents too, on
their part, must cleanse their intelligence and practice
the same virtues with humility and detachment. There is no
use teaching the children one thing and holding out
examples, contrary to the teachings. Thus, true learning
occurs when noble truths are taught and supplemented by the
conduct of the teachers, parents and the elders.
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol VI, Ch 26.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
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