Comment by sim7c00

3 days ago

wanted to chime in on the educational system. in the west, we have the 'banking system' which treat a student as a bank account and knowledge as currency, hence the dump more info into ppl to make them sm0rt attitude.

in developing areas, they actually implement more modern models commonly, as its newer and free to implement newer things.

those newer models focus more on exactly this. teach a person how to go through the process of finding solutions. rather than 'knowing a lot to enable the process of thinking'.

not saying what is better or worse, but reading this comment and article it reminds me of this.

a lot of people i see, they know tons of interesting things, but anything outside of their knowledge is a complete mystery.

all the while ppl from developing areas learn to solve issues. alot of individuals from there also, get out of their poverty and do really well for themselves.

ofcourse, this is a generalization and doesnt hold up in all cases. but i cant help think about it.

a lot of my colleagues dont know how to solve problems simply because they dont RTFM. they rely on knowledge from their education which is already outdated before they even sign up.. i try to teach them to RTFM. it seems hopeless. they look at me , downwards, because i have no papers. but if shit hits the fan, they come to me. solve the prolbem.

a wise guy i met once said (likely not his words). there are 2 type of ppl. those who think in problems, and those who think in solutions.