I finished “The Doors of Perception” by Aldous Huxley. This is the essay that inspired the name for the band The Doors. The essay chronicles his experience with and revelations from a peyote ingestion experiment. Towards the end, after getting over his initial feelings of euphoria and spending quite a bit of time studying the folds his flannel trousers made, he made an excellent point about most Western Education.
Inertly, there is an aversion to true thinking rather than remembering in education. Mere fact retention to ace a test instead of understanding life, history, math, science etc. and how all of this ACTUALLY relates to ourselves is what seems to be at hand. No, word problems do not count. They are merely bullshit abstractions from the mind of someone looking outward. Some shapeless lab coat floating in a room of half-emptied beakers and TI-83s stacked up against a wall. Critical thinking isn’t even really introduced until College. That friends, is nonsense.
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