What is up with education today? I think education needs to completely revamp itself. When I was going through school, there was a lot of rote learning. There was also push for critical thinking -- which I think helped in my life, but I'm not sure if everbody picked up on that.

There's just something about education that isn't right. I had a thought a few years ago if computers and technology and the state of modern life get more advanced, and now we see more specizliation, doesn't it mean that we're not learning as fast as need to?

One viewpoint is that one needs a Bachelor's degree to get ahead or even sustain a mediocre life. With this problem, perhaps we need to push the memes provided in college into the high school curriculum, or even in middle school.

The original thought I had was, well if engineers need to know all this science and they can get it at the college level and even now you have the graduate level. I think that we need to push calculus down into the middle school level. And is it possible? How fast can someone learn?

The more clearly defined the memes are, the quicker they are assimilated and understood. In the case for science, memes are strongly defined, can be taught and learned very easily. These memes can be pushed very aggresively into the younger ages.

This may be a simplistic view, but one that I think is required. Could the current curriculum be viable 100 years from now when things are more technologically advanced? Could we afford to be teaching trigonometry in high school a millenia from now ? In current trends, education hasn't been keeping up with bottom parts of modern society. The psychology of optimal experiecne can be very effectively applied towards education. From the edcuational point of view, all the research into more effective education are all starting to look like flow psychology. Education today is inefficient and insufficient.

Flow must be there, creativity must be there, and return to the true definition of education -- to learn from within. The currently philosophy of education must be changed. It doesn't really matter where education happens; the manner in which it is done is more important.