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It would be easy to say that the kids are just stupid, but honestly nearly every child who enters school is excited to learn. By the time they get to the 3rd or 4th grade the light comes out of their eyes. Why is that?

Educators are taught badly if children have already lost interest just as they are entering the sweet spot of education, around 5th and 6th grade where children naturally have open brains and in years gone by, when taught well, they are able to learn languages like Latin and deeper math concepts.

They thing is educators don't even know they are teaching for bad results. It was planned that way in order to create adults who cannot think.

They thing is educators don't even know they are teaching for bad results. It was planned that way in order to create adults who cannot think.

That's why every time I see a $RedForEd sticker (in Arizona) I want to cover it with a picture of an iPad entitled "Your Replacement." :)

I despised school starting in first grade. By the time I got to second grade, I was horrified because I realized that HS graduation was an eternity away.

Over the summer months (at least in the first few years) I’d forget the misery, and look forward to the first day of school. Then before the first week was out, I was well aware that it was going to be a lonnng way until June. :(

I have few memories of 1-12th grade, except that I hated it. Kindergarten was pleasant enough though. I enjoyed one class in HS which was one semester. It interested me greatly. Otherwise, the experience was dominated by drudgery and stress.

I don’t even like thinking about it now. Wish things had been different. I admired others who could focus and had a purpose and made their education meaningful. All I wanted to do was bolt. No adult ever noticed that there was a problem. I just figured that’s the way it was, so it did not occur to me to say anything. I was probably right about that.

At least back then, the subjects were real and there were standards for functional results. What’s going now is an abomination on any number of levels.

The light goes out because their teachers have no passion for the subject they teach. I love math, GOD gifted me with a tallent for teaching math. I'm nothing without GOD. I make it fun. I use rubber bands to teach logarithms. I use rubber bands to teach linear equations. I use rubber bands to teach quadratic equations. The world is an amazing environment full of math, you only have to open your eyes to see the math. I use rubber bands to teach ratio and proportion. Math Works? If you can't make what you teach fun, then don't teach.

...educators don't even know they are teaching for bad results. It was planned that way in order to create adults who cannot think.

I can't help but think that these "educators" are themselves products of the same degraded system that they're now administering to their pupils.