General Education Reform
We need a complete overhaul of the education system. We need to move away from the Rockefeller factory-worker system and more towards a system that improves education.
To do this, I propose a series of ideas:
I believe we need to eliminate the department of education. We need to get big government out of the schools.
We need to allow for more methods of improvement by allowing specialists and experts like psychologists, neurologists, and academics to study and find new ways to improve education. A suggestion is by studying the various different brain patterns students have (logical, creative, emotional, analytical…ect)
We need to teach more life skills.
We need to teach theory and emphasize on the fundamentals of a subject much like how college professors do but in high schools.
We need to pay teachers more and encourage them to be experts in their academic fields and handling students through greater training and available resources (such as digital training, observation-sit-in training, or apprentice training).
We need teachers to experiment with what methods works best for their classroom and students. We need to eliminate school bureaucracies and allow for more teaching flexibility and experimentation.
We can make a system where teacher credibility and quality is valued. Good teachers are given higher salaries and are most desired by schools. New teachers try to make a name for themselves and improve the quality of their education for better pay.
We need to teach students to be financially literate and ways to build wealth.
We need to teach them relationship skills and ways to build long lasting life partners.
We need to teach Sex Education along with Parents Psychology and how to raise children properly.
We need to build solutions to bring students together, develop close friendships, and encourage cooperation and good sportsmanship. We need to give them the opportunity to develop social skills or find others who have similar interests to build groups they can have their own support and learn to develop themselves.
We need to teach small business and entrepreneurship.
We need to teach core classes with subjects they can actually use in daily life and use or prepare for their future.
We can perhaps play with the idea to decrease the time spent in school so children can spend more time with parents and community. Perhaps play with the idea of a four day school week. I like the idea to have school only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
We need healthier choices of foods in schools. We need more nutrient-dense options. We also need to keep allowing students access to the healthy snacks program in schools where they have access to fruits as a snack. Good nutrition is important for a good brain.
We need physical education.
We need more focus on building intellectuals and critical thinking skills.
We need to teach US history and how our government systems work.
We can play with the idea to introduce religion or religious philosophies and ethics back into schools.
We can play with the idea to have after-school clubs much like in Japan.
We need to remove state tests and offer better solutions for obtaining student metrics.
Unlike our current academic system, we need to have the ability to group students so that we can best cater to their educational needs. We also need to allow schools to provide additional resources so that students can also learn what they need quickly and effectively.
We need to find ways to build student self-esteem, self-worth, motivation, build their own value, and build natural confidence through authenticity and achieving their own personal goals. We also need to teach students to do their own research and not follow blindly and build their intellectual data brain-banks.
We need to introduce the teachings of ethics and model behavior in classrooms. We can do so teaching philosophy, behavioral ethics (like in Japan), and also by having classroom teachers elect a model student.
Perhaps we can play with the idea to have firearms competency courses, survival courses, or self-defense courses. Perhaps even have paintball or airsoft sports.
We should maybe look into reforming or abolishing teachers unions because of the protections it gives to malevolent instructors.
We need to build ways schools can be exciting, fun, challenging, and encourage students to learn through the nature of curiosity. I would also use storytelling and the natural curiosity to build a students own self-desire to learn.
We need to look into or adopt the best practices of other countries which demonstrate success in academic progress. Perhaps experiment with other education systems such as Finland’s education system.
We need to find new ways to capture the interest of children and motivate them to never give up and to continue learning. We can do so with new technologies such as VR and other platforms that help them learn and explore subjects visually and hands on.
We should encourage classrooms to have cameras and allow parents to visually witness what students are learning and doing in classrooms.
We perhaps can look into the idea of examining student behaviors and giving resources to parents if they are having difficulties, neglecting, or not caring for their children and young adults.
We can even introduce the idea that parents can have a bigger influence, interaction, and participation on campuses where they can contribute their own efforts to improving education or help hosting school events.
We can play with the idea to have a teachers pledge and build a culture around teachers and academic instructors.
We need different forms of education. We need to have a variety of education systems that works best for children and young adults. For example, we need private schools, border schools (or military schools), religious schools, home schools, and alternate school ideas such as: science-based schools, Asian-forms of schools, focus schools (schools that focus on or cater to a particular subject), student-choice schools (schools where students choose to attend classes that captivate them), or experimental forms of schools.
We can play with the idea that schools are a center for the local community where it behaves more as a community-center.
We can have schools teach entrepreneurship and also receive funding for students learning to perform real-world-applicable businesses.
Most importantly I think we also should remove any form of radical indoctrination from schools and focus on objective intellectuality. We also need to keep any form of Marxism out of the school systems.
These are my general ideas.