Just had a little chat last night with one of my co-workers on the topic of where Canada is heading over the next couple of decades. Gabi is always good for an interesting conversation on this kind of topic, since he grew up in Romania, and was educated in college there while Ceaucescu was in power.
He raised some scary possibilities for Canada in the future.
Gabi mentioned to me that the new system in Canada was going to be based on non-competitive learning. This concerns him since he has a little sprog that is in elementary school right now. He has decided to take this child to a private educational institution in order to address the failings of the public system. I was instantly reminded of a self paced learning initiative that I was apprised of the year that I graduated high school.
This system will lead to serious (additional) deficiencies in the education of our youth. This at a time where:
Why are we wasting our time and youth on this kind of pseudo intellectual crapshoot. Teenage social issues are, and always will be a far more powerful motivating force than the desire to learn. With more dual income (read as both parents busy at work) families than ever before, I don't think that we can depend on the parents to pick up the slack where the schools are leaving off. The end result is going to be even worse education children, who have failed to learn the extremely important lesson that life is not fair and that they have to work to make it in life.
Competition can be stressful, and there are winners and losers in life. That doesn't make it a bad thing. Competition drives us all to do better than we otherwise would have fared. Competition raises the standards for everyone involved. Without it, we would never have evolved past the single celled organism stage. Without it, our society will lose some of the edge that keeps us at the top of the world economic food chain. You might feel bad for those starving kids in Africa, and you are to be commended if you want to help them out philanthropically, but you sure as hell don't want to become one of them.
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