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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:39 am Post subject: may |
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Hello Mark,
Thank you for your feed back. As you wrote, lets see if I can get a direction.
First lets talk generally about education . I really do not want to get into detail but it is such a broad subject. Howard Gardner the founder of Multiple Intelligence found out that IQ ( which only measures linguistic and logical intelligence) belongs to 100 years ago. He found out that human potential goes far beyond these two intelligences. He already has discoverd 13 different intelligences. These intelligences they do work on top of one another in a complex way. So for instance if a child develops his Spatial intelligence( Visual )it has an effect on his linguistic intelligence or logical (math) intelligence.Well in our educational system we only work on linguistic and logical intelligence, so you see we are missing a whole lot . And I do not want to get into that discussion here. But our educational system is far from what it should be .
We live in a changing world , fast pace ,and witha pollution on information. Our educational system (like other countries) has not changed and has not kept up with new reasearch. There is a big gap between what it should be and what it is.
I do not need to tell you ( as I am sure you know it ) what an important role finance plays in humans life.It affects every aspect of our lives. For instance it plays even a great role in the rate of divorse.
We live in a changing world , new products come in and change the way we live , the way we see , the way we value..... But our educational system does not change with these changes.
Well I really should not go on and on. In short there are a lot of things that are missing in our educational system ,an important one is finance education. What is money and what to do with it. Believe me many adults do not know about it either. Parents are so busy working and adjusting to this changing world , that do not have the time to think about how to do it. Although you may be right they may not think that a teacher can talk about money to their kids. You may be right they might not like the idea.
Who am I and what have I done? I did not know and still do not know a lot of things in finance but because I did not know I have paid a huge price for it . It has come through experience to me that if you do not save, if you use credit cards, down the road life is going to be horific. I want to teach the kids the value of saving. I want to see if you think I have a point in here.
Sorry Mark , I do not want to critisize our educational system . Dr. Howard Gardner (Harvard graduate)was assigned by the American goverment to research on human potential when he discovered about multiple intelligence, but it is a huge task to change our educational system and use his theories.
Sorry if it is too long. Thank you for your time.
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