I don't want to be a party pooper, but...
I don't want to be a party pooper, but every time I observe how educational authorities create, give away, strengthen, and reward educational processes and trajectories, I confirm an uncomfortable truth: the winners are almost always the same. Those who overwhelmingly possess a highly developed cognitive intelligence, outstanding, not coincidentally, in areas like mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
TL;DR
- Educational systems tend to reward individuals with high cognitive intelligence, particularly in STEM fields.
- This hierarchization of knowledge leads to a silent discrimination against other types of intelligence.
- The global economy's technical and operational sectors employ the majority, yet the collective ideal of 'being a professional' through university excludes many.
- The belief that one can only 'get ahead' through university is a dangerous collective imaginary.
- University training is primarily designed for cognitive intelligence, failing to accommodate or foster motric, creative, musical, spatial, or practical intelligences.
- Many students drop out not due to lack of talent, but because the system is not designed to recognize or evaluate diverse learning styles and intelligences.
- The question should shift from why students abandon university to why the current model is labeled 'education' when it excludes so many intelligences.