Everything that's wrong with American education summed up in one image

February 21, 2022 By Andrea Widburg

A photograph came across my screen today that perfectly encapsulates what's wrong with modern, traditional education.  (I use the word "traditional" as a contrast to Montessori or Waldorf schools.)  In it, we see that a child gave a correct answer to an ambiguous question, only to be told his answer was wrong because the teacher was unable to see beyond the confines of her answer book.  Things like this turn students into the kind of mindless drones who think as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does.

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