obedienta tinerei generatii, 8 ianuarie 2015

Draghi Puterity

Despre cum e "dresata" tanara generatie pentru a fi obedienta fata de corporatocratie si pentru a nu lupta pentru respectarea drepturilor care i se cuvin (un exemplu din SUA):

http://anonhq.com/psychologist-lists-8-reasons-young-ameri…/

Psychologist Lists 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back

Written by: EV Clinical psychologist and author, Bruce E. Levine, has compiled an in depth list of reasons why young Americans don’t fight for their rights. His article...

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  Da, mai putin asta " “No Child Left Behind”, and “Race to the Top”, have essentially standardized-testing tyranny that creates fear."

  
  
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  Iata si perceptia fenomenului educational chinezesc, nu cu mult diferit de cel romanesc de pana la 1990:
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/.../inside-a-chinese-test-prep...
  
  
  Regina M Valdez
  New York City 6 days ago
  So many things to say about this. First, the inevitable comments from Americans: 'yeah, they can ace exams, but what about creativity?!' Subtle racism is behind such comments, exempting Chinese as creative. It's an absurd assumption that barely cloaks our minute sense of awareness that something is missing in the American student and the American family. First, in America, we are quick to justify low test scores with the prevalence of poverty, this, despite the fact that students in Asia-India included-who are poor often score perfect or near perfect SAT scores. Second, we also use race/culture as a reason to explain low scores. However, how to explain the perfect scores from those for whom English is not a first language? Whose culture is completely different from ours? Third, parents who will do everything to see their children succeed. Where are American parents? I was a teacher; i never received a call from a parent. Few showed up to parent teacher conferences. However, when their child failed it was my fault.
  
  Does cramming foster creativity or management skills? No. It's not supposed to. These are test preparation centers, not music school. How many graduates from America's B-schools are good managers? Many Americans report having terrible managers. These are simply excuses to deny the work ethic of this culture and our lack of one. With free libraries and infinite learning opportunities on the internet, we tune into Jersey Shore, Duck Dynasty, and Honey Boo Boo.
  
  
  Anna Harding
  Elliot Lake, ON 6 days ago
  I taught physics for seven years on the university level and had some of these kids come through my classroom. There are good points and bad with this type of training. The good point is that they are quick with the facts. They have memorized things I had trouble with and still have to look up. They also have discipline, something sadly lacking in North American students. The bad point is that they haven't integrated what they have learned into a unified body of knowledge...hard to describe, but the kind of know how that comes from playing with stuff and watching it not work right.
  
  I encouraged my students to fail. If you play with stuff and understand how it works - and doesn't work - on a conceptual level - not just the equations but what they mean - you truly understand it. You have that "feeling in your fingertips" that makes you truly competent.
  
  Sadly, many students didn't understand this. They were focused on the grade, which they had been taught meant everything. Many did not understand that grades are nice and all, but when you get out into the world the key test will be whether you can do the job.
  
  I feel sad for those students who get high marks but do not truly understand how things work. In the end, if they cannot do the job they will have worked hard for no return.
  
  
  RHE
  NJ 6 days ago
  Unfortunately, most parents and students in the US care care not one one-thousandth as much about academics.
  US popular culture instead promotes ignorance and prizes mediocrity.

  

  Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory

  Thousands of students travel to Maotanchang to spend 16 hours a day, seven days a week, studying for the...

  NYTIMES.COM|BY BROOK LARMER

  
  
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  Elizabeth
  Cincinnati 6 days ago
  This story provides an interesting counterpoint to articles about US parents complaints and reaction to the Common Core that are being adopted in various States in the US. Chinese parents would spend what time and resources they have so that their children could pass the bar set by the government. American parents, on the other hand, are rebelling in mass because they feel the bar have been set too high for their kids to succeed on their own. Should one even be surprised that the US education system is failing and falling behind other developing and developed Countries!
  
  
  Dr. LZC
  medford 8 days ago
  As crazy and oppressive as this system seems to Western eyes, the devotion and sacrifice of the parents is incredibly poignant. Families that will go this far to support their children express a deep desire of the poor and middle class everywhere to give their children a better chance in life than they could have. Their determination and willingness to do whatever it takes is being sadly misused in this case by a lack of imagination and planning at higher levels of government. Nonetheless, this engine of desire is usually unstoppable despite the cupidity of governments and the private sector. With this many students pushing at the gates, I'm sure an alternative system, perhaps of private universities in a credible form, will begin to challenge the old elitist system. And despite all the hand wringing about creativity, in reality, good students also need discipline and memory. Often, one has to apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair, and get on with it.
  
  
  VictorG
  Canada 6 days ago
  I went through this system many years ago. It may seem cruel and dehumanizing on the surface, it is in general a fair system of standardized admission to higher education. It is not perfect, but is the best (in terms of fairness) you can have in such a big country. All I can tell you from my experience is that the smart and best students are always the ones who will eventually succeed in those exams. If you just have good memory, you would not succeed in these exams, guaranteed, does not matter how hard you study. You are reminded that the creative ones are always few and far between, no matter what system you are in, that's called the "Bell curve". I hope the physics prof who posted here would agree with me. 
  
  It is also a system that filter in the best and filter out the below average student. This testing process not only test your "intelligence" and hard work but also your mental toughness. If you could not handle this stress in school, how could you handle real stress in life in the future under harsh conditions? Maybe it is a cultural difference, the Chinese way of thinking is that hard life and experience can be a good thing for your future, because in general we learn more from "harsh" experience than from "good" experience, although people here may disagree with. Think about this: spoiled kids rarely succeed. 
  
  If you put Gaokao into this perspective, you'll understand it better, and why most people in China still support this system of testing.
  
  
  Nathan an Expat
  China 6 days ago
  This is one of the best pieces the NYT has done on what it is like in the new China. Balanced and analytical it presents a fair picture of the mania for progress and the fervour with which almost all Chinese educated or not regard education. An important quibble, however, is the idea presented by the author that you either get into a university or leave the family farm to become a construction worker. It's not such a stark choice. These days more than half of China's population lives in cities and it continues to rapidly urbanise. Students who do not get into university have the same sorts of options Western students who do not go to university have. There are vocational colleges and white collar jobs in service industries etc...It's not university or manual labour. Also many young Chinese like their Western counterparts dissatisfied with the prospect of a corporate or government job and encouraged by the success of the many Chinese start ups are turning to entrepreneurial pursuits. But apart from that a great article that increases understanding.

  
  
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  Beth Ann
  WA 6 days ago
  The gaokao is no different than the British "O" level or "A" level exams used throughout the British Commonwealth, or the SAT, SAT II and AP exams in the US. How else do you assess how much someone knows besides putting them through rigorous tests? The CPA, CFA, LSAT, BAR, ARE or MCAT require even more memorization.
  
  There have also been lots of articles written about South Korea's exam system. The fact is all countries have a rigorous high school exit exam *except* the US. We automatically graduate students as long as they show up, even if they get all Ds and Fs, and fool ourselves into thinking we have such high graduation rates, then wonder why so many show up in college needing massive remediation in English and basic math, never mind science. 
  
  It has become fashionable, esp. among the liberal left, to refer to any form of hard work in school as "rote memorization". First, a set of basic facts must be memorized in order to excel in higher level calculations and analysis in math and science, and without memorizing tons of vocab. words and grammar rules, how does one excel in SAT verbal? The left's disdain for any form of hard work or memorization is the main reason why we have so many kids who fail in math and science and cannot major in STEM in college. 
  
  60% of our college grads are unemployed or underemployed, while employers are lobbying for more H1-B visas for smart, hardworking Asian kids. We need to stop lying to ourselves. Laziness does not equal creativity!
  
  
  Liuxiaorui
  Chengdu 6 days ago
  I studied at one of the best high schools in Sichuan province, and the situation there is no different from this rural high school in Anhui province. There is an ongoing education reform which allows students to gain bonus marks by attending assorted competitions in a bid to diversify their learning. Unfortunately, this serves as nothing but breeding bribery. Some students have got 20 marks already through their parents' "networking"(typically known as "guanxi"), even before they take the examination. The dilemma faced by Chinese education system is not that easy to tackle. To make matters worse, teaching resources are intensely focuses upon large cities, leaving some impoverished and less modernized areas in dire need for good teachers. Just as the motto goes, students in those places can only make up for the lack of effective instruction by working exceedingly hard, to the point that they sometimes don't even understand what they are doing. Tertiary education in China suffers even more criticism. When everything gets blocked, any silver lining becomes an luxury.
  
  
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  Nathan Congdon 6 days ago
  Hard for me to comment on this objectively. I have had a lifelong love affair with China since I began studying the language as a child, and now, 35 years later, I work here as an eye surgeon and my kids (10 and 14) are growing up here, having spent the last 8 years in the Chinese public school system. They are exposed to enough of these pressures that I feel I know the system from within. I don't think any sane western-oriented parent could feel that the full gaokao system is anything other than an assault on children's natural love of learning. Still some of this comes from the burden imposed by having to learn thousands of characters before you can properly begin education, for which there simply is no humane way I think, and which ingrains the habits of rote memorization and repetition. And some of it is just crazy. It is hard not to be deeply struck, though, by the willpower and sheer determination of these rural kids who struggle to find the meritocratic eye of the needle in a system stacked against them. Really a tremendously disturbing and deeply moving story, head and shoulders above usual NYT knee-jerk criticism of modern Chinese society.