| As many of you know, I run a think tank, and | | | | the right Question into a little box, and yes, it is |
| there's nothing too spectacular about that | | | | important to ask the right questions, but is that |
| considering there must be some 500 think tanks | | | | really teaching them to think? |
| around the world, and someone has to run each | | | | And we either use rote memorization and try to |
| one of them. However, there is something I've | | | | catch them for cheating or we have them go find |
| noticed within our think tank, and that is if we let | | | | the right answer and put it into a space, all so |
| too many politically correct individuals into our | | | | they can get a grade and go home for the end |
| groups, at whatever level. And, we have a | | | | of the day. How does this help learning - how |
| significant problem because they disallow folks to | | | | does this teach people to think. Now then, I use |
| speak their mind, otherwise they chastise for | | | | this example because I have been absolutely |
| using improper politically correct phrases, thus, no | | | | adamant in chastising The World Future Society, |
| one listens to their brilliance, and eventually they | | | | yes, I admit it, I am a member. It seems that |
| stop talking. | | | | many people in The World Future Society are |
| The reality is with all brilliance comes with some | | | | extremely leaning left in their political thinking, |
| baggage, and we as a society and civilization have | | | | almost to the point that I could call them straight |
| to deal with that if we wish to come up with the | | | | out socialists. |
| best solutions, as inevitably they will come from | | | | And here we have the problem again, if everyone |
| someone who thinks slightly differently than the | | | | has to think the same, in the same politically |
| rest of us. However, if we reduce all geniuses and | | | | correct motive, to be in that group, then there is |
| genius Level thinking into silence, making it very | | | | no out-of-the-box thinking, all they've done is |
| hard to express themselves without making a | | | | expanded the box, made more rules, and silenced |
| small verbal slip of political correctness, that we | | | | the true geniuses within their group, if there are |
| defeat the purpose of thinking at all. | | | | any, which I really haven't found any, though, I'll |
| But personally, I think we are doing the same | | | | admit there are a couple, who do hang around |
| thing in our schools, and yes we expect all of our | | | | that grouping of futurists. |
| children to do rote memorization, and we call that | | | | But I would suspect most of the real geniuses, |
| learning, really, and why bother memorizing any of | | | | well they are merely a member of the group to |
| that stuff, it's all on Google. Kids are not stupid, | | | | soak up information, and because it may be one |
| they know where to find information, and asking | | | | of the only group that stands for forward |
| them for the information and testing them on it | | | | thinking, and innovating towards our future. Even |
| doesn't make much sense, unless you make it | | | | if the resultant is nothing to write home about. |
| open-book test and allow them to ask their | | | | Personally, I refuse to be drown in political |
| personal tech device to go online and put the | | | | correctness, I am a genius, and I'm not afraid to |
| answer in the right column, or check out the right | | | | say it. And I refuse to be silenced, and maybe |
| multiple choice answer. | | | | you can tell by my almost 21,000 articles online. |
| Still, if we allow them to use the Internet to find | | | | What have you written today? Do you have a |
| all the answers, that is to okay, but it still just | | | | single original thought? Well if you do, I'd sure like |
| teaches them to give us the answers we are | | | | to talk to you, and let's skip the political |
| looking for, and to use a search engine by typing | | | | correctness, we don't do that in our think tank. |