Education

Is a bitch. All I really have to say about it. I'm tired of having to have crap shoved down my throat. There are so many ways to teach that are so much funner for everyone involved. America's (sorry the people in charge of America have) got this stupid idea that students are little books to be written in, and nothing falls out. If something falls out, its their fault they didn't work hard enough to hold the binding together. Sometimes there just aren't enough pages, sometimes it rains, sometimes the pen is just too hard to pick up. Sometimes the authors don't agree with each other.
What if school taught kids to want to write in their books? What if school taught that a full book was a cool book? What if school taught kids to like to learn? A cultivated interest in knowledge will go farther than seventeen years of knowledge learned for a few tests. An interest in knowledge could keep people smart all their lives, more interested in news, politics, the world around them. An interest could keep seniors tech literate and build bonds that are unimaginable now.
Almost everyone thinks, or has thought that being a scientist would be a cool job. Why? Because they get to discover things, they get to learn, they get to make the textbook, they get to know all there is to know. They all love what the area they're working in. What if everyone was a scientist. They could still be firefighters, burger flippers, politicians, or whatever, but they could all be adding to the world's unfathomable repository of knowledge. A sharing of ideas by billions of people. A social Internet. All through a change of educational attack.

If we can teach an unwilling senior calculus, I think we could teach someone to love Biology.

Or I could be wrong?

Or..

I have had another epiphany about government. What about a layered democracy? My civics teacher had a good point that a pure democracy just wouldn't work. People in Orlando wouldn't care if a road got paved in Seattle, so their votes wouldn't really count. But what if people in Seattle voted for the road in Seattle, the people in Orlando voted for the new airport in Orlando? What if the people in Georgia voted for a new interstate that would go from Atlanta, to Savannah, to Alabama? What if the people in America voted for war? A great quote from someone was that it is impossible to govern without the consent of the governed. In my idea, the governing would be the governed. A small administration would still have to exist to decide which laws were voted on at which level, and interpret the laws in place for that purpose. This could lower taxes, because we wouldn't be paying thousands of dollars to have people choosing crap the people they're representing could buy, we could just do it ourselves and save the money. Taxes would still have to be around, of course to pay for that small delgation and public services, like roads. Everything else, like electricity and phone lines, could be commercialized, and kept competitve for the consumer, the public.

Any thoughts?