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I have a "zero" chance to succeed in Poland - I do not have a degree! [93]
it's simply far too easy to obtain a Masters level degree in the first place
True - look at the number of students who find the time to study for two masters' degrees at the same time. Incredible.
It's basically a forced labor where one or two kids work their asses off while another 2 or 3 do squat and everybody in the group gets the same mark.
That's life, Z. But Project work offers so much more to the learner than parrot fashion rote memorisation. For example, the amount of technical information in the world is doubling every year - most of what a technical student 'memorises' in their first year will be out of date by the time they reach the third year. It will be even less at the end of five years. Traditional Polish University style memorisation appraches simply can't cope with the rate of change in these subjects.
In the US and Canada kids rule. In Poland that's teachers. I fail to see a problem with that.
But the students carry this on into everyday life. Do you want your children growing up following other peoples' orders all their lives? At 10 years old the teacher shouts at them and tells them they're stupid. At 20 years old, they gt a job with a guy who tells them theyr'e stupid and they have to work for nothing. When they get to 40, they're beating on their own workers. What kind of society is that going to be like?
Do they do anything that is not brought in in blue print from outside? Aviation? eh? buying old jets from US,.. helicopters?
Thanks Teabag. This really is a good post and something that's been bugging me about Education. Polish education thrives on tests - in a lot of ways they constitute te engine that drives the system here. However, tests grade students into clever and stupid, usually on the basis of memorised data and often at an age where such things are irrelevant. Tests push the child to fight with their peers for the best grades and the teacher's approval. How can this be good for a child's development?
Of course this is the kind of thing that industry loves. The Polish system pushes out huge numbers of perfect employees: respectful to authority, distrustful and competitive of each other, focussed on short term material gains (marks = salary), susceptible to persuasion and lacking any serious critical facilities, because that was the way it was at school.
I would never put my child through the Polish system
