Updated and restated education initiative designed to maximize innovation in a knowledge-based economy
Abstract
- The purpose of education is the preservation and enhancement of knowledge and the development of character within our given form of society which will best prepare the individual for the conditions of extreme novelty the near future is bringing.
- We must compete globally on a qualitative scale; our top engineers, scientists, inventors and mathematicians must be more economically fruitful than the top technicists from around the world through creativity and innovation.
- Scientific evidence incontrovertibly shows that men’s primarily systematizing brains are hard-wired to the knowledge-based educational system (the cognitive model) and women’s primarily empathizing brains are hard-wired to the emotive-based educational system (the affective model), over a spectrum largely but not solely dependent on gender.
- The commitment to truth over ideology is crucial to educational reform, and the truth is that one size does not fit all; educational systems must match up to the profoundly different brain structure and functioning between men and women. Women dominate the field of education and have adjusted the educational system primarily to fit their needs and men are leaving the system because it does not fit their needs. This trend over many years has reached a crisis point.
- Knowledge-based industries will flow towards knowledge-based educational systems and away from emotive-based systems. Therefore, if you want to maximize innovation, you must keep men in school and make available the educational system primarily geared to the systematizing brain.
My background links on education and innovation:
Scientific American Mind - Dec 2007 Sex, Math and Scientific Achievement - Inching into the mainstream.
PISA Survey on Science - 2007 US continues in science freefall, “These kids have grim prospects in the labor market.”
Purpose of Education - 2003
Proposal to Attract and Retain World-Class Intellect - 2003
Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future - 2006 in pre-publication by the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), a joint unit of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine:
“The state of US K-12 education in science, mathematics, and technology has become a focus of intense concern.... our primary and secondary schools do not seem able to produce enough students with the interest, motivation, knowledge, and skills they will need to compete and prosper in the emerging world.”
The Boys Project - 2006
“We are losing young boys to a sense of failure that comes from schooling poorly adapted to their needs.”
New studies reported in World Science document all-out efforts to make men and women equal in math by treating them to artificially equal environments. This ideological endeavor completely misses the mark. The mark is to make every individual, regardless of gender and brain structure, have enhanced capabilities they are naturally best at. By lavishing inordinate attention on girls to make them equal to boys in math and spatial abilities, boys are short-changed who could become even better than they are, given the same level of attention the girls are getting. The goal is not equality but excellence, raise girls and boys both to new heights of native capabilities and see what we get, not force everyone into cookie-cutter mediocrity.
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