STOP POLITICALLY DRIVEN EDUCATION
Book release scheduled for January
Why do we vote for fools? It begins in schools! The confirmation bias
is at epidemic levels. Critical thinking in every day life is at a new low as
evidenced by recent political campaigns. As education moves more and more to
the “teach to the test” mentality, creative thinking is diminished.
To resolve this problem educators must take the opportunity to
sabotage the artificial education system, from the bottom up, and replace it
with the agenda of children.
Here are some excerpts from the book!
1. Once
you establish a certain belief you tend to favor that belief, although that
belief is not absolute in nature. According to Science Daily, ¨Confirmation
bias is a phenomenon wherein decision makers have been shown to actively seek
out and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis and
ignore or under weigh evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis.” This
happens especially when that belief provides a comforting conclusion to an
emotionally charged experience, it then becomes locked into one’s thoughts.
2. Once fear takes hold, it is nearly impossible
for one to talk their brain out of that thought. The solution however, is
critical and rational thinking. What is the probability of those evil acts
taking place? The statistics will give students a better idea of whether they
should really succumb to fear or simply ignore another political deception.
Don’t believe anything you hear or see. Study it, research it and search for
the truth.
3. The
role of education is not to take one side or another in a political debate. It
is to create an environment conducive to rational, critical thinking with the
hope that students will internalize that and carry it with them throughout
life. And they must go out of their comfort zone for the sake of truth.”
4. Here
are comments from University of Virginia Psychologist Dr. Jim Coan on the
Netflix series “Brain Games”: ¨When you hear an idea or a statement your
pre-frontal cortex helps you decide if it´s true or false. In order for your
brain to make sense of a new idea, it will initially believe it, but then your
brain immediately begins to check the idea against your memory to see if it
fits with everything else you know to be true. For a moment, your brain will
believe almost everything it hears¨
5. The
broader the student´s background knowledge, the better chance they will seek
out a more rational answer. Put science out in the forefront and let them dig
into it. Then when they take that second look and check the initial idea
against their memory, they will have a basis of fact to work from.
6. When
a student is involved in a project that relates to the subject at hand, their
thinking goes far deeper than simply stating the first step of the scientific
method. The student develops a hypothesis, tests it, retests it, refines or
rejects it, fails and moves forward until that student achieves success.”
7. “when
achievement is restricted to grades, (test scores) attendance, and behavioral
compliance, the robust nature of learning is inadvertently restricted…
traditional school outcomes as level B achievement can occur in the absence of
learning how to work and learn independently; (A level learning includes)
learning how to synthesize, transfer and apply knowledge to the world beyond
the classroom; learning how to value self as subjects and not as objects; and
learning how to engage in and share power in democratic spaces.” Dr. Angela Dye
Cap Lee
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