Education has results {educational outcomes}.
bad: anxiety
Teachers can reduce anxiety by stating on what grade depends and how they calculate it.
bad: questionable rewards
School can reward memorizing. School can reward passivity and conforming to others' demands. School can reward looking good, getting by, cheating, and trickiness. School can reward putting down others and tattling. Schools can seek perfection in unworthy tasks, so perfection is not wise in those tasks, only satisfactory performance. Teachers can be the enemy, and students can feel like prisoners.
bad: failure
Failure stimulates hatred for success. Failure promotes competition, rather than cooperation. Educational tracking can equate with failure.
bad: repetition
Repeating without purpose can lower motivation. Strict control can lower motivation. Forced work can lower motivation. Repetition can be useless to learning.
bad: not real
School puts children or teenagers in environment with mostly other school children or teenagers. Such environment can become separate from main culture and is likely to be immature culture.
information handling
Allow oneself to have stimulation or to observe. Respond to stimulation, seek stimulation, and participate. Value stimulation and understand why it is worthwhile. Appreciate stimulation, find reasons why it is valuable, and relate reasons to each other. Criticize stimulation types, develop consistent value set, and use philosophy to evaluate and compare them. Write ideas about stimuli. Criticize and evaluate good and bad stimulus attributes. Create something new, or improve something existing, to make stimuli.
information emotions
Get satisfaction from stimuli. Desire more stimuli. Want to read and learn about stimuli. Want to create, and so stimulate self. Imitate and accept stimuli. Have feelings about stimuli.
responsibility
Students need to practice being responsible. Rather than forcing or telling, students choose behavior from successful and appropriate alternatives. Rather than telling what and when to study, students plan their educations and discipline themselves to meet their goals. Rather than imposing rules, students make rules to allow everyone to study and behave cooperatively.
rewards
Teachers do not penalize bad work, only reward good work. Teachers reward students immediately at first, and then after delay and more randomly. Teachers praise promptness, organization, cooperation, creativity, decisions, communication skills, appearance, progress, personality, responsibility, and academics.
After successfully completing standard one-subject courses, people receive official documents {certificate}| from institutions.
After successfully completing standard high-school, community-college, or college courses, people receive official documents {diploma}| from institutions.
People can receive grants {fellowship, grant}| {grant, fellowship} for teaching or research.
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Date Modified: 2022.0225