do you think education should focus more on producing confident people with good ethics....?

Question

rather than specifically focusing on intellectual attainment.

shouldnt kids be rewarded and encouraged for things other than the intellect.

isnt forcing kids to compare themselves with others all the time a destructive thing that will lead to conceit in some and a feeling of failure or inferiority in others.

should kids also learn through activities that get them to help co-operate and share with others.

maybe im behind the times and stuff like this is already happening.
what do you think?

Answer 1

Ive got a feeling this is yet another question where the best answer will go to someone just agreeing with you but i think your talking out of your backside.

They should not focus more on ethics as good ethics should be something embedded from the home..... If it is not teaching it at school would not make a different.

As for the forcing kids to compare and feeling failure that just the sort of nandy pandy PC correct shite that is going on in schools these days..... That's one of the reasons our sports success in this country are crap due to people worrying about little johnny in the corner who isn't good at footy bla bla bla, life is full of succeeding and failure, that's life and if they got used to it they would be better off.

Ops, looks like no ten points for me.

Answer 2

If I had my way, Education would mean producing children that can co-exist and be productive. There is more to living than the 3 R's. Some children cannot achieve academic excellence. I feel that there should be away to train them with a skill w/o forcing them to pass the standard curriculum. Then when they have graduated, they would have a way to make it in life and be proud of what they accomplished. Not every one can have a PhD and not everyone can fix an engine in a car.

Answer 3

I think that kids should be provided with an environment that allows them to explore who they are and where they fit in the world. I think kids should be taught how to communicate with others, how to put themselves in someone elses shoes, how to negotiate, how to mediate. They should be allowed to develop their creativity and encouraged to make mistakes so they can learn from them. They should be taught how to express how they are feeling using words rather than their fists. Mostly I think kids should have fun growing up.

Reading, writing and maths are all very important, but surely its more important for kids under the age of about 8 to develop as little people before we start trying to squeeze them into boxes 'clever' or 'stupid' with tests in primary school.

I think in Sweden they do more child centred learning stuff and it seems to work ok for them.

Rant over!

Answer 4

competition is natural. it seems that the education system several generations ago was much more capable of producing productive citizens than the education system in place today. i don't understand why we want to teach our kids to be soft. grades, sports, and extracurricular activities teach confidence, and strict discipline rather than psuedo-psycho ailments and excuses seem to teach better ethics.

Answer 5

What good is confidence in combination with ignorance?