UK firms are being forced to rely on migrants for crucial roles because many British teens can't be bothered to learn maths, a new report says. The British Academy report said a ‘dramatic improvement’ in mastering basic maths skills like numeracy is requi
Most other cultures value math very highly and are far ahead of western schools.
That said, there's alwaysd plenty of keeners out there, and I wonder if this isn't just a ploy to hire cheap workers.
proghole
You're either good at these things or you're not.
Not necessarily. I've seen people just click all of a sudden when they are taught from a different angle. I think this is especially true of girls. Obviously not everybody is cut out to be an Euler or such, but I think most people could be reasonably proficient in math if taught properly. More so than the illiterates you see.
You're either good at these things or you're not.
Not necessarily. I've seen people just click all of a sudden when they are taught from a different angle. I think this is especially true of girls. Obviously not everybody is cut out to be an Euler or such, but I think most people could be reasonably proficient in math if taught properly. More so than the illiterates you see.
I don't dispute that at all. Bluntly, what I am observing is that upper income European and Asian students are disproportionately successful in these disciplines and that grates on the egalitarians who desire equal outcomes in every aspect of life.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Western education is too prone to fads and social engineering experiments. An educated and engaged middle class isn't in the plans for an easily ruled and cowed plebe class..
Indeed. Stupid people vote for the party that promises bread and circuses...and free health care, free food, free incomes, free housing, and etc.
More of a failure of the education systems that have no guidance in them and really produce a 'we've done our part, now you go figure the rest out on your own' herd of kids who have no idea what the hell they're supposed to do with the rest of their lives after graduation. The majority of children simply do not come from families that have the knowledge or ability to help them find a proper path beyond giving some vague 'hey, why don't you go try this?' sort of advice. Adopt the German education system where they identify a student's core strengths long before the high school level and actively help them get their careers started and the results in the West would be as good as they are in Japan or China.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Or, what seems to be more frequent, this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... anged.html
Headmistress of Church of England primary school sacked after claims answers to 30 children's maths exams were changed after the test
2014 maths SATs results for 11-year-olds at school annulled amid claims
It left 30 pupils at St Patrick's Primary Academy in Solihull without a grade
In its most recent Ofsted inspection, St Patrick's was rated as outstanding
I suppose the US could get rid of it's public indoctrination system...
...and bring back the public education system like my parents knew in their time.
“We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
Wilson's ideas formed the foundation of American liberalism for the past century. Most of his ideas have come to pass and the cheapening of public education has been one of the left's great successes in America.