Waiting for Superman depicts a tragic crisis in education, but the solution the film claims to have found is quite the opposite. Standardized tests are not the solution. Test scores cannot fully measure a person's ability, far from enough. If I am a company owner recruiting employees, the candidate's high score can tell me that he has good self-control, can manage his time well and can implement his own plans. But does a poor grade necessarily mean that the person has no self-control ability? I have many friends who were not able to concentrate on their studies in school, and their grades were very poor. But after entering the society, after discovering their own interests, they have proved that they can concentrate on the things they like, and they are very dedicated and have their own independent thinking ability. And a person with a high score is often a person who has lost vitality, has lost the flexibility and richness of thinking, or has no ability to think independently, or knows nothing about society and lacks the ability to judge in society. Ability to grasp business. If I am a factory owner, producing toys, etc., and having a very fixed product line, then I may not need to consider whether the candidate has flexibility of thinking and independent analysis ability. What I care more about is Can he follow instructions, can he do one thing for a long time, can he do it step by step? Even if it is a management position, I may think that as long as he can simply execute orders, manage crowds, and manage people, it is enough. And I may prefer people who don't know anything in a simple society, or who are already very boring in life, and can endure very boring monotonous work day after day on the assembly line. However, if my company is a company in the Internet field, it needs to face the ever-changing changes of the Internet, and needs to understand the essence of the Internet changing social life, I need to have a strong understanding ability, a strong independent analysis ability, and a strong ability to understand. Rich creative people. What I need is someone who can face new problems, know how to explore, how to analyze, how to try, and who has good judgment and grasp. Test scores tell me very little about these abilities. (Of course, self-control is a very fundamental ability. Without self-control, nothing can be achieved. But not being able to concentrate on school studies and exams does not fully mean that this person really has no self-control.) Industrialized large-scale production requires many people who can abide by production discipline. A person who can execute commands in a fixed environment. So we will have modern education to know. But the needs of industrial mass production and your personal needs are two different things. Your education is completely different from going to school Two things. You don't have to turn yourself into a person who just blindly follows orders in order to get a job. If you can truly "educate" yourself, not to mention that you can definitely find a suitable job, you can even start a company and be your own boss. If you are a parent/mother, your child can start a company and be the boss, if he can really educate himself. So parents really don't need to blindly educate their children that they must get high scores in school exams in order to find a job. The jobs found in that way are low-level jobs, and there is no happiness in life at all. Fortunately software and the Internet are changing everything. Production has become easier because of software and the Internet. The threshold for production is lower. Because it is easy to find buyers through the Internet, neither large-scale markets nor large-scale production are necessary conditions for business survival. Software and the Internet in particular have ushered in a new era of spontaneous production of social goods. In this era of spontaneous production of social products, knowledge becomes the most important productive force. Here I speak of living knowledge. rather than dead knowledge in books. Real knowledge is dynamic knowledge that you constantly reconfigure in your daily life based on your experience. The modern school system is too outdated for this kind of knowledge. If Toffler (author of the third wave) came to review the film. I reckon he would say the point of the film is nothing more than a second wave counter-attack. In his book, he said: "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. For people, things like literature, management, law, etc. dealing with people are easier and more interesting. I think it's human. And there are indeed a few people who are really interested in mathematics, in the physical world. So there is no need for Americans to complain that not as many people are doing math or engineering as before. It's simply because Americans have more options to do things they're more interested in. Instead of having to do manufacturing jobs like people in other countries. Besides, why didn't the director himself become a mathematician or engineer? What about his own math? Also, the age at which children's interests develop is different for everyone. Some children become interested in mathematics earlier. Some do not develop an interest or comprehension of mathematics until much later. I've written a lot about this before. The mention here is just to illustrate the old thinking that standardized testing is simply not going to work. In the era of the Internet, in the era of knowledge economy, and in the era of industrialized mass production, the modern school system that serves mechanized mass production is bound to be replaced by new models. Otherwise, the crisis will only intensify. Still trying to solve the problems of the current school system with old second-wave thinking offers no solution. Education/learning is a broad and far-reaching issue. Providing suitable solutions requires broad and far-reaching knowledge and long-term focus. It is not enough to try to solve this problem with enthusiasm, and it is very likely that the solutions offered are completely different, putting the cart before the horse, killing education in the name of education and killing learning in the name of learning. So although this film depicts the deep crisis of education, but because the director is very arbitrary in saying that a solution has been found, and this solution is so stupid and regressive, I can only give this film the lowest score. For people, things like literature, management, law, etc. dealing with people are easier and more interesting. I think it's human. And there are indeed a few people who are really interested in mathematics, in the physical world. So there is no need for Americans to complain that not as many people are doing math or engineering as before. It's simply because Americans have more options to do things they're more interested in. Instead of having to do manufacturing jobs like people in other countries. Besides, why didn't the director himself become a mathematician or engineer? What about his own math? Also, the age at which children's interests develop is different for everyone. Some children become interested in mathematics earlier. Some do not develop an interest or comprehension of mathematics until much later. I've written a lot about this before. The mention here is just to illustrate the old thinking that standardized testing is simply not going to work. In the era of the Internet, in the era of knowledge economy, and in the era of industrialized mass production, the modern school system that serves mechanized mass production is bound to be replaced by new models. Otherwise, the crisis will only intensify. Still trying to solve the problems of the current school system with old second-wave thinking offers no solution. Education/learning is a broad and far-reaching issue. Providing suitable solutions requires broad and far-reaching knowledge and long-term focus. It is not enough to try to solve this problem with enthusiasm, and it is very likely that the solutions offered are completely different, putting the cart before the horse, killing education in the name of education and killing learning in the name of learning. So although this film depicts the deep crisis of education, but because the director is very arbitrary in saying that a solution has been found, and this solution is so stupid and regressive, I can only give this film the lowest score. The following just illustrates the old thinking that standardized testing is simply not going to work. In the era of the Internet, in the era of knowledge economy, and in the era of industrialized mass production, the modern school system that serves mechanized mass production is bound to be replaced by new models. Otherwise, the crisis will only intensify. Still trying to solve the problems of the current school system with old second-wave thinking offers no solution. Education/learning is a broad and far-reaching issue. Providing suitable solutions requires broad and far-reaching knowledge and long-term focus. It is not enough to try to solve this problem with enthusiasm, and it is very likely that the solutions offered are completely different, putting the cart before the horse, killing education in the name of education and killing learning in the name of learning. So although this film depicts the deep crisis of education, but because the director is very arbitrary in saying that a solution has been found, and this solution is so stupid and regressive, I can only give this film the lowest score. The following just illustrates the old thinking that standardized testing is simply not going to work. In the era of the Internet, in the era of knowledge economy, and in the era of industrialized mass production, the modern school system that serves mechanized mass production is bound to be replaced by new models. Otherwise, the crisis will only intensify. Still trying to solve the problems of the current school system with old second-wave thinking offers no solution. Education/learning is a broad and far-reaching issue. Providing suitable solutions requires broad and far-reaching knowledge and long-term focus. It is not enough to try to solve this problem with enthusiasm, and it is very likely that the solutions offered are completely different, putting the cart before the horse, killing education in the name of education and killing learning in the name of learning. So although this film depicts the deep crisis of education, but because the director is very arbitrary in saying that a solution has been found, and this solution is so stupid and regressive, I can only give this film the lowest score.
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