Why is education economically and politically motivated? How does this affect students intelligence?
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Doesn't really. A persons IQ is fairly constant, basically almost the same throughout its entire life. It is only our level of education that changes. \nThe more educated people a country has the more productive it becomes. \nEconomy and politics are more or less the same thing nowdays. Without a well-trained work force with a high level of education a country cannot be competitive on the global market.
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Definitely!The term education is not just restricted to your textbooks.The term education encompasses moral as well as literary values.A world without proper education cannot be better place to live.Today,if we have the anti-socialists,the nationalists,the fanatics and the insurgents....the prime reason behind this is that they didn't get a proper educational backing.
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What do you define as "poor performance"?  When you can be specific about the data that supports your allegation, it becomes much easier to find the causes.\n\nBe careful about the sources of your statistical data.  Frequently, they are politically slanted.\n\nWhen we find a way to measure whether a student has been educated to limit of his/her individual ability and not to some arbitrary standard, we will be on our way to determining the success of our educational system.
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Someone with lots of intelligence is the ability to learn quickly and see abstract concept patterns.\n\nSomeone with lots of wisdom knows what the heck to do with it.\n\nIn education, we measure intelligence by volume of information a person has already learned (e.g. vocabulary), memory skills (short and long term), pattern perception (verbal, visual, numerical, etc.), and problem solving (not just knowing a way to solve something, but figuring out ways to do it from scratch).\n\nIn real life, wisdom is much more important. A slower learner who is really good at using what he/she does know, effectively and positively to benefit him/herself and the community, is much more highly valued than someone who has learned lots of information and can problem-solve quickly, but doesn't make the world a better place with it.\n\nThe thing is, schools are to teach us the stuff we need so that as we build experience, we can do more with our lives.\n\nParents (acting as models for how to do it) and life experience are what give us wisdom.
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Laziness and lack of accountability in school.  If no one has made them get assignments correct they see no reason why they should spend the extra time to do so.  After all it takes about three seconds to do the spell check.  Why should they waste those three seconds of their life just to show the public that they are actually educated?
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Interesting question (I think it is a question.) Seems to me there is enough blame to go around...let's not stop with teachers. How about the students themselves? How about the parents? We have seen a huge dumbing down of students in the past 30 years...lowest common denominator effect, or "let no child be left behind." When students are pushed further into classes they cannot understand, when the quality of education is such that many students are left in the dark, when parents remain detached from their children and expect teachers to do it all, we have what we now have...a nation of illiterate kids graduating from high school Not all students are illiterate, but you don't have to look further than the questions/answers here to see that many kids cannot spell, cannot write a sentence, and cannot communicate clearly with written words. We have spawned a system where it is NOT cool to be educated, and certainly NOT cool to achieve anything in public schools. NERD is all but a curse word, isn't it? Yet it is the Nerds who inherit the jobs, the salaries, the world. Kids may think it is "cool" to be ignorant, but there comes a day when they must look around and wonder how they were left out ... of everything. IF I were to come home with a bad grade, IF I were to not do my homework, IF I were to mouth off to a teacher, I wouldn't sit for a week. So, to avoid the punishment, I did the work. Isn't it strange today that when a child misbehaves, the parents are up in the face of the teacher with accusations, threats, etc. Is it any wonder that teachers give up trying to educate a bunch of students who have no interest beyond text messaging? Teachers head into the career thinking they will make a difference. It doesn't take long for them to find out they are underpaid baby sitters of out-of-control thugs and brats. Unfortunatly, time has a way of evening things out. Sad to say, but I am glad I do not have to face the daily challenges of gangs, bullies, and "cool" people that students are surrounded by today.
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I think it has less to do with an academic lifestlye and more to do with a natural predisposition.\n\nMy IQ is >140, but sometimes I can be dumb as a stick! I think that our brains are just wired differently. We relate to the world differently, and things that are perfectly logical to us sometimes make no sense to anyone else. \n\nPlease don't think I'm an elitist, because I am most definitely not. But to me common sense refers to the perceived common knowledge or understanding of the average population, who comprise the majority. Because we are a minority group, our understanding of the world is uncommon and sometimes considered a flaw rather than just a difference.\n\nOf course, these are the kinds of people you will find in career academic and highly specialized professions because of their intelligence, but their apparent lack of common sense didn't "happen to them" as the result of a sheltered existence. It is just who they are.
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Higher education was opened up to the middle class. More people were being educated. More people were being let into the upper-class. The people there weren't leaving the upper-class. The upper-class began to see a growth with the opening up of education in this country. \n\nSoldiers came home from WWII and they became educated and had lots of kids. Their kids were the first generation to benefit from what the GI Bill started which was the student loan program. \n\nAs more people became educated they began to question conflicts as the Vietnam War and understand events such as the Civil Rights movements. Americans were thinking for themselves because higher education was accessible to more Americans.
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There several things involved with socioeconomics and academic achievement.\n\nFirst, usually the best schools are in the best neighborhoods. People with money make sure their kids attend the best schools, some public and some private. It neighborhoods where homes are expensive, the monies raised from taxes go to the schools there and they are usually full of the best equipment, teachers ,etc.\n\nSecond, the schools in poor neighborhoods are usually run down, have over worked, under paid teachers (many just out of college). The learning environment is pretty poor. \n\nRecently, on Oprah, they showed the very sad physical state of schools in poor neighborhoods vs in wealthier neighborhoods. The difference was unbelieveable.\n\nParents in more disadvantaged neighborhoods are scraping by, have little education themselves and some are on drugs/alcohol or single parent homes. This environment is not the best to succeed for their children.  Reading needs to begin early, there are studies showing that children need to be introduced to reading BEFORE school, or they will lag behind the other children. Some poor children don't get introduced to reading until the first time they attend school and at home they rarely get read to by parents/caregivers.\n\nUnfortunately, in this world, the wealthier you are the better chance you have of higher achievement. But, that does not mean a person of a poor background can't achieve, many have, it takes a great deal of determination though.
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Education shouldn't be dumbed down to answer to the demands of a generation that has been abusing so many things now. Students need to work harder if they really want to get something out of it. I mean, we go to school to learn. Many seem to be forgetting that nowadays.
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academics is just a small part of a whole individual's existence. it is not because thate they don't try, its because there are just too many variables to consider. there are different aspect's of ones life, different kinds of intelligence, different interests, and many more. you can't sum up an individual's existence just by the basis of his or her grades.  \nhere are some:\nfamily problems, motivational issues, sloth, lack of interest in the subject, differences in priorities, distractions, genetically not predisposed to said fields, self issues. etc.\nactually, its a matter of courage. courage to see what you really are good at and accepting the consequences of the choices that we made.
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Educational goals are more long term. That is the end product. The objectives are what you need to achieve along the way in order to reach the educational goal.
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Life is not only about spouting facts and doing paperwork. It is also about creativity (we wouldn't have anything without people being creative/inventive). Not only that, but Art provides additional support, emphasis, and reinforcement for certain essential skills used in core academics: observation, attention to detail, visual-perceptual skills, hand-eye coordination, patience, etc.\n\nIt is a very important part of education, and should be included in every school.
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The ability to think without copying something from dictionary.com or wikipedia....\n\nSeriously, though, I think that we should consider issues of power differentials in the construction of who is intelligent.  For example, black high school students in the US are more likely to be diverted in vocational rather than college preparation tracks.  Also, the concept of "intelligence" has also been used to justify colonialism, historically and today.
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I think on an outward, juvenile approach society may, but ultimately I think the answer is no. We reward those that have high intellectual achievements, by paying them more than those who do not have it. The financial gain for intellectual enrichment is a statement that our society and economy needs our "nerds" in order to stay competitive.
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The majority of Democratic leaders where "educated" (aka brainwashed) in the liberal, eastern colleges.  If you do an honest study of the back-round of most of those professors, you will find that they have STRONG links to communism.  If we are allowed to believe in God, then we wouldn't listen to those Jacobi's. Then, their poor little feelings would be hurt.  I'm not against education, but I cannot see where the Ivy League schools are educating rather than indoctrinating.
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Well money is important in my life because as a student i have to pay a lot of money to attend school to aquire knowledge and without money I would not be able to aquire this knowledge.\n\nMoney also is important to me as it allows me to purchase books and pay for the internet which also allows me access to learning and knowledge.\n\nI hope that helps with your essay.