Ares and Aphrodite?

It is true that men and women use different parts of the brain more than others.  Whether or not that study is wide enough or completely true is debatable as I’ve no time or patience to look in to it as extensively as I should, as of right now I will take the word of these Doctors studying it.  At least for the time being.

Regardless, these findings are deeply concerning in several ways.  The first being this: With these discovering and their implications having become “increasingly obvious,” why are our school systems -pardon me- still pieces of shit?

This information should have long since urge a massive change in educational content, if not to completely change it then to at least alter it appropriately.  Even if it’s simply bumping down the content a grade [or more] lower. 

So many people, too many to count it seems, are always raving about how smart their children are.  If so many are, is that not saying something about children?  We are underestimating children at young ages and therefore gimping them for the rest of their life.  We expect too little and don’t push them hard enough to reach their full learning potential.  That is not to say I’m in any way trying to lessen the importance of someone’s oh-so-smart child’s intelligence.  That is not my intent at all.  I am however implying that a lot of children are smart, a lot smarter than they are credited, and the potential to be so is in many other children.  Our school systems are not set up for advanced children, because most children, in fact, are highly intelligent for their age. 

But is it because they’re smarter than normal for their age or do we expect most children to be much dumber simply because they are children?

With that said, the differences in learning could also raise some problems.  The standard for general education is excruciatingly low for our youth, then painstakingly high at University levels [which most newly graduates are extremely unprepared for].  If at elementary level and up were to adjust the way in which they taught according to sex, discrimination could still exist.

If a boy and girl were to learn in ways in which the other supposedly “learns best,” they could still remain un-accommodated.  Or those that could be mixtures could be refused one or the other way in which they need.  Even so, if either need accommodation from the other they may not be offered it because “studies have shown” that boy and girls learn entirely separately.  This study does not appear to offer elasticity: it is always “the differences,” and offer no relativity. 

Also, there raises the problem that already exists.  If men “excel” in these skills and women “excel” in others, there’s leaving little room for either sexes to move into the other realm and puts all the more pressure on women [and men, depending] to perform.  Especially, still, in the realm of mathematics.  This should only be utilized as a tool to help more children reach their potential and more, and not as a way to force them to excel within a restricted area and no way to push out of it.