Re: Is your baby playing with its toes yet? If not the government wants to know why
Peace Mamaof3
This is actually the process of making of drones. The process will as you say identify which children are likely to be 'bad' drones, but the 'good' drones will be super ones and the 'bad' drones will not be that bad. You are right there is a basic focus over the issues you talk about, BUT there is a lot more at steak than just not being high achievers.
Scenario
If a monkey has been trained to respond to stimulus in different ways but a child has not, then possibly rather probably if that child and the monkey take the same test the monkey will get better marks.
Education is being replaced by indoctrination and human programming. Over-prescription makes humans 'work', makes us batteries, part of the capitalistic machine, and it takes away our souls in the process. The focus is not on our soul it is only on our achievements.
Soldiers are taught to obey instructions.
Freedom to grow and develop is an ethos which can best gauged by the words of Plato ...
Do not train a child to learn by **force* or harshness but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.*
This amusing of the minds is a kin to learning by play, and play is a kin to love. Teaching by love is as per the hadith of the prophet for the first 7 years and thus we already have the best 'prescription' for teaching. Education should be about giving the child the confidence and desire to learn.
Then the later years will be a breeze, but the more we try to cram into the childs mind information we will only be able to make record players and hard disks out of them ... that's only if they don't rebel in the process.