Why is the Education

System Flawed, and

how can it be
improved?
 Early Education

▫ A 15th century
professor would feel
right at home
▫ Teaching = Talking
▫ Learning = Absorbing
John D. Rockefeller
General Education Board Founder 1913
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers
I want a nation of workers”
 “
A system that teaches kids information that has no
personal meaning, has them regurgitate that
information onto a test, and subsequently has them
forget everything they learned after a three-month
period is an ineffective system to say the least.
 3 Points to Prove

Point #1 Point #2 Point #3

Students are taught to Education is too Addition to the current
cram information, but standardized and too curriculum can go a
they aren’t taught how heavily reliant on long way in advancing
to apply their scores the well-being of
knowledge to real-world students
situations
 1.
Students are taught to cram information, but they
aren’t taught how to apply their knowledge to real-
world scenarios
 1.

▫ Students learn through a formula of cramming

▫ Any content learned stays in that class
▪ Freshman year → WFC
▫ Without personal meaning or stressing of
importance
▪ Psych terms
▪ Philippians 4:13
 “
The inability to transfer a skill or
information to a novel context might
indicate shallow levels of learning
- Ambrose
 “
WIthout that deeper knowledge of
what lies beneath the formula, they
can’t pick up what they are learning
and put it back down in an
unrelated context
-Ambrose
 2.
Education is too standardized and too heavily reliant
on scores
 2.

▫ Forcing teachers to teach to the test

+
▫ No time
=
▫ Discourages teachers from crafting learning
experiences
 “
It’s time to restore balance in our schools so that
teaching and learning, not testing, are the center of
education. Test-driven education policies continue to
force educators to sacrifice time needed to help
students learn to critically analyze content and,
instead, focus on teaching to the test.
- AFT President, Randi Weingarten
 2.

▫ Test-centered education leaves students with little

room for mistakes
▪ Failures
▫ Students can learn through mistakes
▫ May work better for certain students
 “
I learned [chemistry], but not in the read-the-
principle-and-apply-it way that Davey wanted, [but
through trial and error of chemical reactions]
- Larry Spence
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2.

▫ Larry Spence
▪ Award not given
▪ Photographic memory
▪ Didn’t Exist
▪ Learned Chem through learning experience
▪ Blew up stuff
▪ Fireworks
 “
Fascinated that we could do this with charcoal,
sulfur, and saltpeter, I set up a laboratory in the
furnace room at home. Over the next two years I
learned to build my own batteries, a rectifier so I
could tap into the doorbell wiring and convert it to
direct current, and a hydrolysis apparatus to
manufacture oxygen and hydrogen - that fabulous
exploding gas.
- Larry Spence
 3.
Addition to the current curriculum can go a long way
in advancing the well-being of students
 3.

▫ Economic education and Personal Finance

▪ How to: taxes, stock market, 401k, smart monetary
decisions
▪ Good for a nation’s future
▫ Not required
▫ Has the stigma of being hard
Survey of the States (2018)
By:
Council for Economic Education
 Instructions for use

Economic Education Personal Finance Education

 3.

▫ Home Economics can also promote the well-being of

students
▪ How to: washing washine, cook food, clean stuff,
fire safety
▪ Good for a nation’s future
▫ Not required
▫ Some classes don’t even offer this
 Summary

▫ Education requires personal meaning or stressing of

importance
▫ Forcing teachers to teach to the test combined with
limited time gives little room for the crafting of
learning experiences
▫ Economics and Home Economics can ensure the well-
being of students after leaving school
 Moving Forward

▫ Formulate a system
▫ Implement it into a controlled environment
▪ Start off at small scale
▪ Class of kids
▪ Over summer break