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So why does the education system teach our children what to think rather than how to think for themselves?

Any suspicions? It's called repression.
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Miram · 31-35, F
There has been a global shift towards autonomous learning and competency based teaching in the last decade. Though teacher's training didn't keep up with curriculum demands and the budgeting isn't enough so people think the problem is top down while they refuse to pay or contribute to the shift in anyway.

How to think for yourself is part of study skills, metacognitive and cognitive strategies.
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Miram yes but that's not actively taught in most school. But they're schools that do teach this way but letting the students explore what is important to themselves. In this way development is greatly accelerated.
Miram · 31-35, F
@JovialPlutonian Because of lack of teacher training and public contribution to new approaches. It has nothing to do with repression.
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Miram that's what you wish to believe. Do they teach students to love one another? No. Do they teach you to work together? No, they teach you to work for yourself. If that's not repression I don't know what is.
Miram · 31-35, F
@JovialPlutonian Teach me to work for myself? We are nothing without the team in healthcare, maybe in other professions? Maybe in yours? I do think there is a heavy emphasis on individual wants and needs and it appears to be in line with the economic and social system in the west.

And in didactics, psychopedagogy always had a place. I didn't make a profession out of it but I have enough background and interest to see the defects objectively enough. It's not wishing, it is experience.
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Miram in the health care the staff do amazingly to help and support patients but the medical industry could give you answers that would cure all illness. Just remember you wouldn't have a job if you had cured ppl already, hence why they refrain from giving the answers or the cures.
Miram · 31-35, F
@JovialPlutonian Are you being serious?
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Miram very much so I'm afraid to say. How about I give you a link?
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Miram https://youtu.be/rBUGVkmmwbk
Miram · 31-35, F
@JovialPlutonian

Of sure, I will read it tomorrow.

What you're calling the healthcare industry are basically sponsors. They don't do the research. Academics do. They are capable of controlling the market to make profits over past medications before releasing new ones. And they are capable of influencing our training because we're obliged to attend seminars on medications and procedures that might not be all they claim it to be. But ultimately it is our responsibility to do research.

They don't own a cure of all illnesses, reality isn't that simple. Is it corrupted? Yes. Does it work the way you describe? No.

what would happen if there was a cure for all illnesses? I'd still have my job. Not all medical practice is about prescriptions and if I was in it strictly for the money, I'd try being a truck driver. They make more within the first seven years, have less debts and don't lose all their hair trying too keep up with the science of it and the demands.
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Miram love is the cure but they don't talk much about that
JovialPlutonian · 36-40, M
@Miram any physical issue requires a spiritual solution not man made pills acting to do the job your body was designed to do. So they make ppl dependent on medicine rather than showing them they don't need it. Don't get me wrong I have more respect for psychology over psychiatry but these are ppl with no personal experience claiming they can somehow empathise with patients that have conditions they've never had before. Psychiatrists give pills for chemical imbalance, did it ever occur to you that this is merely the symptom and not the cause. Again I respect your pureness of heart to heal others but how they educate you I couldn't support.