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Don, I think the root cause is a bit simpler, and comes in two parts.1) Most educators, especially at the college level, have no real life experience outside of academia. This is reinforced by the liberal education standards that discourage critical thinking. If all you know is what you regurgitate, you are dooming to propagate that information. If you have no life experience outside academia, you've never been forced to analyze problems to come up with solutions. You've never had to truly think about the information that is presented to you, to extrapolate what is important. This makes it easy for academicians to be influenced by the few liberal masterminds who are working towards a goal of absolute power.2) Parents, to a great extent, no longer participate in their child's education (or most aspects of their raising). They rely on the education system to do this. Children never learn to think, analyze, and formulate their own opinions. This has become such a problem for the army that they actually added a significant block of instruction on critical thinking to the Command and General Staff College. That's my deductive $0.02.
Quote from: cj7ox on June 06, 2019, 02:03:47 AMDon, I think the root cause is a bit simpler, and comes in two parts.1) Most educators, especially at the college level, have no real life experience outside of academia. This is reinforced by the liberal education standards that discourage critical thinking. If all you know is what you regurgitate, you are dooming to propagate that information. If you have no life experience outside academia, you've never been forced to analyze problems to come up with solutions. You've never had to truly think about the information that is presented to you, to extrapolate what is important. This makes it easy for academicians to be influenced by the few liberal masterminds who are working towards a goal of absolute power.2) Parents, to a great extent, no longer participate in their child's education (or most aspects of their raising). They rely on the education system to do this. Children never learn to think, analyze, and formulate their own opinions. This has become such a problem for the army that they actually added a significant block of instruction on critical thinking to the Command and General Staff College. That's my deductive $0.02.are you kidding me?!
I concur on the lack of critical thinking and decision making. It just isn't there. And in a world where kids walk around in a cotton ball safety sphere, how are they going to learn anything. Learning can be painful. But that's a real lesson.Makes me thing of a training thing we would do back in my day in Army aviation. We would be flying around and the instructor would roll off the throttle. You would have to pop up a bit, then turn to some clearing or field to autorotate to. Now that maneuver is really dangerous. Call it wrong and you have almost no options. So doing it is actually a real life flirt with death.Which means the learning curve is straight up and down. I believe psychology labels that "Intensity of learning. The more so, the better you learn it.For many years, the Army stopped allowing pilots take autorotations all the way to the ground. The safety center said it was just too risky and they sold some marty milktoast general on the idea. Meanwhile in the 160th we would install four internal 600 gallon fuel tanks, fill them up with gas and go out and do an hour or two of full touchdown autorotations.Later when I left Special Operations to become what civilians would call "lead pilot" of a company or battalion, I would be the only pilot out of as many as 200 who had ever flown a Chinook in full autrotation all the way to the ground.Safety is the killer of effective learning and training, I would say. Safety is not necessary, discipline and training is and is the key. As a senior aviation leader I would sometimes argue that point much to the chagrin of my commander. And I have to defend my counter intuitive statement. Know how I'd do it?I'd ask the heckler in the last three assignments, how many accidents did the organizations have? Then I'd point out that the last three companies or battalions I was in charge of training, we had no accidents and we almost always pushed the envelope.
More than most Don I trained with some guys down in south texas who are civilians with DOD contracts. Apparently DOD sends them people to train because training rules are “relaxed” when not on base and conducted by contracted trainers. The Real Military finds a way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk