Bored of Education

I know that the government tailors their services to meet the lowest common denominator, but I believe that the standards for education should at least be different, if not better. Our country's education system is one of the largest institutions by which other countries compare themselves with the United States. Before you write this blog off mentally and click the little "x" at the top right hand corner of your screen, please just listen for a short time. The only point I want to make is that, since we now consider our education system a glorified baby-sitting machine, we ought to start at least teaching living principles to the children who must attend. Instead of crowding their minds with liberally slanted "social studies", we should focus on reporting history accurately and completely in history books, omitting none of the supposed "politically incorrect" material. Instead of instructing Calculus and Trigonometry to high school students, we should teach them how to manage money in true-to-life, hands-on ways. Rather than throw money away on students whose parents are not concerned by attempting to force them to graduate by a seemingly unattainable set of standards, we should have available work study programs for those who are willing to learn a trade in place of achieving a college preparatory diploma. In our VICA and other career-oriented classes and clubs, we should emphasize business ownership and set up classes to instruct principles of employee management, capital delegation, and time control. Let us start breaking the education system into parts that fit individuals as they develop rather than develop an education system that breaks people into parts that fit a government determined mould. Standardization is not the answer. Standardization is a principle of mass production, not of mass education.