School system’s failure to teach logical thinking linked to low PISA scores

[Scott]

In order for children to learn, they must experience things and they must engage in some sort of trial-and-error system that gives them the ability to solve problems.  

 

Schools can teach the scientific methodology, but it cannot teach creativity and it cannot teach logical thinking, per se.   This starts at home by allowing children to solve problems, experiment with ways of doing things and other aspects of the learning process.  These foundations are largely instilled in very early childhood when children figure out things about their environment.

 

You cannot carry a child for extended periods of time and expect them to walk.   There is an entire world of wonder for a child who can crawl around in the grass.   There are some amazing little creatures living in a whole world consisting of a few blades of grass.   It's considered by many parents to be 'dirty' and thus unacceptable.   There are hundreds of examples like this where learning is stifled.  

 

Much of this is cultural, where you are indoctrinated that you must not only listen to your parents and elders, but you cannot question what you are told by them.  

 

 

[Rhys]

Cultural non-linear thinking style vs linear .... many things at once ... vs one at a time.

 

These approaches reflect the differences, which of course determine the learning styles.