I teach entrepreneurship at a university, and this cartoon is 100% illustrative of the outcome of today’s elementary and high school education. After 12 years of rote memorization, stay inside the lines, be like everyone else, comply, and for darn sure get your exam answers just like the teacher wants them, my students are afraid to get creative. What they really want to know is not “how will this course make my thought processes more observant and critical?” but “what do I need to do to get an A?”
Comments like “shame on you Earl” is symptomatic of the groupthink that permeates our society. I say Good on Nelson for not having lost his creativity…yet. And BTW, I want one of those pens.
I teach entrepreneurship at a university, and this cartoon is 100% illustrative of the outcome of today’s elementary and high school education. After 12 years of rote memorization, stay inside the lines, be like everyone else, comply, and for darn sure get your exam answers just like the teacher wants them, my students are afraid to get creative. What they really want to know is not “how will this course make my thought processes more observant and critical?” but “what do I need to do to get an A?”
Comments like “shame on you Earl” is symptomatic of the groupthink that permeates our society. I say Good on Nelson for not having lost his creativity…yet. And BTW, I want one of those pens.