Our current education system fosters students to procrastinate and do what they deem necessary to complete their assignments. Only few students put forth the effort required to truly learn the material. Why? Because they are overwhelmed by the general course material that the current system decided everyone should learn. But an artist is never going to need to learn more than basic math and a physicist doesn't need to memorize the historical dates and people of various countries. Can we not Google when the Declaration of Independence was signed? Or who the ruler of England was in 1865? When students are blasted with the teachings of five entirely different courses, they have no room to discover their passions so that they might specialize towards their dream career.
Remember back to when you first learned to drive; you were given two types of courses. The first a class setting where you were tested on rules of the road and what various signs implied to the drivers. Now think about this one for a minute and tell me something important you learned there. A significant rule of the freeways and highways is the maximum speed of 65 mph unless otherwise stated. When you think about this consider how often you truly follow it. Do you always go 65 mph or less? If you're anything like me, probably not. Actually driving on the roads gives you an entirely different perspective on safe driving however.
When you see every other car moving 80-90 mph, are you going to hug the right side and cruise at 65 toward your destination? Fuck no! You're gonna have cars flying by you going anywhere from 10-30 mph faster. Through this you learn by experience and gain a better understanding of truly how to drive. This is exactly why the second style of class pairs you with an experienced driver to guide you through the interactions you face. And you drive! You practice and research the required skills and one day they allow you to drive on your own. A student learns by doing, what a novel idea!
The new education system will take the strengths of the previous, modifying the the downsides to foster better learning and specialization. We must allow our future generations to expand their creativity and become free thinkers, not force them into a structured and conformed way of thinking that will get learners trapped in the rat race of life. So let our children be free to discover their true selves. Let our children specialize in what they can excel in and what they enjoy most. And once they have found their path, join them with a professional whom may best guide their learning on a more personal level.
This will foster a new generation of thinkers who not only know their practice better but also be more excited to attend their work and cooperate with other experts. This generations will be self-actualized to their work and will be committed to both excellence and innovation in their individual fields. The new generation of people will have the capacity to innovate as our forefathers did before the current system had been implemented. Please, wake up America. Discover yourself and change the world.
The current system in place at colleges is in placed in order for students to gain a wide breadth of courses. After all, if the purpose of going to school is to simply get a job, then trade school might be where it is at. It is faster, cheaper, and most of all simplier. Point A to point B, no fuzzy complicated matters like trying to figure out your life.
ReplyDeleteWhile we might be biased because we are and have been in education for our whole lives, I will miss the days I was forced to learn about Art History no matter how much I drudged going there every fucken class.
Our world is becoming more and more complciated, school is to expose you to a wide range of subjects and intellectual matters, after that, you do with what you want.
Although if we are talking K-12 education then that is an entirely different animal
An educational system is truly unique to their own societies, yet societies have the power to change these systems. We have been exposed to many different topics and subjects in our lifetime, and it brings up the question of do we even retain everything.
ReplyDeleteEducation is such a key value to human life not only for knowledge and other personal purposes, but it is a virtue that helps us humans live peacefully and healthy. Hopefully, our peers and leaders will recognize that our current educational system may need to be changed in the future due to our such fast-paced environment
Education will always be there, but being the same throughout time, won't be definite.