TheOutkastDev said:When people talk about the failure of the education system, they always point to the obvious: It isn't adequately educating. It seems like a logical conclusion, yes? If our country is becoming a cesspool of ignorant troglodites, then it must be because the education system did not educate.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't one have to apply the knowledge on his or her own? Why are the statistics showing our lackluster education have to always be cited as a result of not educating. Maybe we're not showing our kids how to use the fucking trigonometic identities in real life, practical application. Or, the uses of compound interest, and how knowing it can be the difference in paying $50,000 for his corvette, or $60,000.
Education isn't complete until complete, understood application.
Practical application doesn't exist in any school I have ever been to.