by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Perhaps we should stop teaching kids to find the answers and switch to teaching them how to find the questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n I read much these days from older people complaining about how younger people just look up the answers on Google. These younger people don’t know anything; they don’t learn anything.<\/p>\n Well, the world has changed. The knowledge of mankind is at our fingertips on the Internet. Give me a question, I can find the answer. Show me a younger person who can’t do the same, and I will be terribly disappointed.<\/p>\n We have collided with a brick wall called the education system. In school, teachers ask questions and students find the answers<\/em>. In the past, finding the answers meant reading the texts, sometimes many texts, and formulating answers. Sometimes it meant calculating the answers after reading the texts that taught calculations.<\/p>\n Nowadays, finding answers is almost trivial, and that infuriates teachers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Okay, what do we do? The Internet has made the second half of education almost trivial.<\/p>\n Perhaps, we should shift education:<\/p>\n Teachers stop giving the students the questions.<\/p>\n Teachers start teaching students how to find the questions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I doubt anyone will adopt my recommendation for education reform. Nonetheless, I give it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Perhaps we should stop teaching kids to find the answers and switch to teaching them how to find the questions. I read much these days from older people complaining about how younger people just look up the answers on Google. These younger people don’t know anything; they don’t learn anything. Well, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,106,20],"tags":[207,201,220,142],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-internet","category-knowledge","category-learning","tag-education","tag-internet","tag-knowledge","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}