education (or lack there of) and a unique way to approach it

[TrollFromDownBelow]

This is so true... kids today are being taught to regurgitate facts, not solve problems. And they aren't willing to put the mental effort in to resolve a problem..they expect the answer to get handed to them on a silver platter... I see it with my own 15 yo step daughter.


http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/spa ... eedfetcher

[Bleyseng]

Eventually, the hard-nosed approach paid off. “After an interaction like that, you see a gear shift in [a kid's] head,” said Korsunskiy. “Once you make it clear that you’re not there to provide the answer, they completely rise to the challenge.”

Unwittingly, the team had stumbled into a big problem — and a gathering cultural debate. According to social scientists (and the journalists who popularize their work), American children are said to be weenies, much more helpless and less resourceful than their age-matched peers in other countries. In educational settings, American kids are worryingly lacking in the faculty known as “grit,” the one that allows people to power through difficult problems, absorbing and learning from setbacks rather than giving up.

I agree and when my kids and step kids were in school I always let them figure out how to solve a problem. I just watched and told them to figure it out as its about learning how to think!

[Amskeptic]

American kids are worryingly lacking in the faculty known as “grit,” the one that allows people to power through difficult problems, absorbing and learning from setbacks rather than giving up.

I agree

Give 'em to me. I will drive them to the desert dump them out with their bicycle, jam the chain between the wheel flange and the sprocket, "hey kid, you can rummage in my tool box. Need a Diet Coke?"