Albert Einstein once said “everyone is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its life believing that it is stupid”. Today’s modern school system not only makes fish climb trees but they make them climb down and do a ten-mile run. Do they really think its ok to turn millions of people into robots? Do they really realize how many kids relate to that fish? Swimming upstream in class never finding their gifts, thinking that they are stupid, believing they are useless. There is no excuse that the school system should be making kids feel like that fish. They are killing creativity and making people feel like they are useless so they never truly find the gifts that they have.
In literally over a century NOTHING HAS CHANGED yet they claim to prepare students for the future, but after
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THE WORLD HAS PROGRESSED! We need people in this world who think creativly, inovatively, independently and criticaly with the ablitlty to connect to one another. Every scientist will tell you that no two brains are the same. So why should they trick students and make them feel like a fish and tell it to climb a tree. It’s just like if a doctor proscribed the exact same medicine to everyone the results would end up being tragic all of his patients would get sick. Yet when it comes to school that is exactly what happens its educational malpractice. Its where one teacher stands infront of about 20 kids and every kid has different strengths, different weaknesses, different dreams, and different gifts. Yet they teach the same thing to every kid. THATS HORRIFIC! It’s a shame to teaches have the most important jobs on the plannet yet their underpaid. No wonder so many students are short changed. Honestly a teacher should be paid as much as a doctor because a doctor can do heart sugery and that doctor can save the life of a kid, but a teacher can reach into that kids heart and truly allow that kid to truly live to that kids fullest potential. Teachers
In this paper I will be arguing the facts that schools are in fact failing students and are not preparing them for the real world of success. Instead they are taking away their creativity, individuality, and intelligence intellect and conforming them into “robot 's,” creating replicates of
One of the most crucial parts of education is qualified and enthusiastic teachers who are willing to dedicate their time. Would Aristotle have revolutionized philosophy if he was not taught by Plato? And would Plato have done the same if he was not a student of Socrates? Educators who are hired in the Appoquinimink School District appear to be hired simply because of their qualifications, not because they are passionate about teaching. Specifically, a teacher last week refused to teach the required material and called me “cranky”, and the week before that an Advanced Placement Language and Composition teacher said to me “maybe if you participated in class more, people would like you better.” Although both teachers have a Master’s degree, they clearly act unprofessional which ultimately affects my learning experience. Emerson describes the modern educational system and compares it to how teachers should be, “Hence the instruction seems to require skillful tutors, of accurate and systematic
At first thought, I thought that our education system was alright, but I was only thinking about my school in particular, where there are not many fights or serious altercations or problems and the school is kept in a nice condition. However, I was on Youtube one day and saw a video about some of the most dangerous schools in North America and realized that not all high schools are the same and that there were a lot of flaws in the way that our education system favours to the higher class and the lower class can manage with what they get. It is also similar with learning styles - kids who are able to learn through memorization and reading excel while kids who are visual learners or need fundamental objects in order to understand the concept being taught suffer. This is also negative for students, like myself, who cannot always get exactly what they are thinking down
From the article Children, wired – for better and for worse ¨Individuals within societies need to be made aware of potential job turnover and turmoil that will come from the rise of AI if given too much power.¨ Speaks truth that has a lot of evidence to back up that claim. Through the twenty eight page article it makes many claim backing up the fact that children are being taught to rely on technology. Also, that jobs are being given to artificial intelligence because it is cheaper and doesn't require breaks. Along with the fact of if humans rely on artificial intelligence it requires less brain power and is mind numbing. For example, the article mentions ¨What we do know is that,in technology, we have a set of tools that have the capability to drastically modify human behavior. What remains, which is not trivial, is to determine how to purposefully direct this capability to produce desired outcomes.¨ What the authors where explaining is that children now a days relying on technology to teach them and help them. With that being said humans can see from high school seniors to first grader technology has had a huge impact and not in the best aways. With technology, things that one would typically learn from trial and error, does not exist anymore. Therefore technology is ruining the lives of children and workers by over simplifying
Over the course of many years, several things have changed, including technology, science, and people; however, our culture and idea of education have not. Some of these problems include teachers that are not being as valued as they should be and students who are changing both physically and mentally, but are still not being supported by our education system. The education system itself is also problematic as well, but it can be fixed with a change in our culture. Teachers and students are the base of the education system, and by not helping them, the system is not helping itself. Students are gaining new emotions and viewpoints, but the education system has had a hard time keeping up, even teachers are changing but are still undervalued.
In “Project Classroom Makeover” by Cathy Davidson, has many great ideas and facts about why should the school system should change. Although i may agree in some points as like the school system is working as a factory. I believe that changing some aspects like the way we learn things can and may keep the kids coming to school. For example, in my classes some of my classmates struggle the way the teacher teaches us so when they ask for my help i have tried different methods and it works. They start to understand instead of struggling but that’s because i didn’t choose to teach it the same way as the teacher. And with this experience i noticed that teaching the same way all the time won’t work students will be struggling because they learn in
By seeing the system as this we see contribute to the problem. How many educators have come into the field wanting to implement great changes to the flawed classist system that exists? How many of those educators have become burnt out and left? How many have simply given up on change and accepted the system that they are part of? If the answer is one it is too many.
The facts are real and obvious that teachers and students are equal and are the same person no higher the creator of our beings gave us rights and made us equal there's no right for us as humans to take something away they didn't create. To obtain these rights teachers must allow students to be respected but also be treated as teachers are treated no different. When teachers act like they have more power than u as a person even tho god made us equal it makes the students feel like kids so we act like kids. It's now time for the kids
The System is Wrong Have you ever wondered why? Have you ever wondered why for thirteen years of your life you sit in a room for eight hours a day in straight lines, where you must raise your hand to speak, and you’re forced to compete for a letter grade that determines the quality of your work, from one person’s point of view? The reason the public school system was developed was to prepare children to work in factories for the rest of their life, this explains why everyone is taught the same way and are required to take the same classes for the first thirteen years of their life. Although public schools are teaching kids the way they were taught to teach, the Board of Education should change their stance on teaching all students the same
After many years in the classroom and several as a facilitator, there were many situations that I have observed and or been a part of that did not make me happy I found myself saying what I would have said or done if I was the principal of the school. My heart began to break for those students that were in classes with teachers that did not seem to really care about whether or not the students actually got it but more so doing the bare minimum to say that the skill had been taught. I saw children struggle. I saw children and parents with hurt feelings and then angered by the way a teacher had treated or talked to them. I even saw some teachers that just did not care. I wanted that to change. For years I put off going back to school. I got my Masters in Education right after I
schools, South could improve in the area of lack of education innovation by teachers furthering their knowledge as a teacher. In the article of Education Week’s Blogs this quote states “It stands to reason that if students are changing, teachers must too.” I believe this is true , there are some teachers who are not good at what they do or how they go about their lessons. Teachers play a big role in this topic of discussion because they should want to change themselves, but in a positive way . “Some students don't get the help they need.” Says Tyanna. This is an issue because I feel teachers at South focus more on the kids who are not capable like others. If South were to take this into action students could possibly be more engaged “They could improve their curriculum.” Teachers today tend to teach the same things each year , so if their curriculum improved everyone could progress
After reading “Schools Kill Creativity,”, “Changing Education Paradigms,” and “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” we see that they all address the issue of our educational system having problems, such as killing creativity, misusing power, creating the banking education concept and the lack of interest from students and teachers actually caring about their students. In reading all this and learning more about our education, Shaun's actually experiencing these things as if he were a student. Being a student, I argue that our educational system needs to be changed, how can we grow and be successful as a society if the way we were taught is still the same as it was during the industrial revolution? Teachers continue to misuse their power, and the lack
I believe that education extends far beyond the classroom walls, and involves many more people than students and teachers. People should be learning wherever they go, and should continue learning long after they’ve graduated from high school or college. Education isn’t something that can be quantified with tests or report cards, but is instead something that people carry with them. It’s a survival pack for life, and some people are better equipped in certain areas than in others. People with a solid education are prepared for nearly anything, as they will be able to provide for their own physical, emotional, and aesthetic needs.
The educational system has always had a certain way of working things. Of course, to others who aren’t aware, it has been effective, but the educational system is destroying our creative minds and our passion. The educational system needs to change how much they value academic classes and nonacademic classes and let students set their own goal also how they care more about grades rather than progress.
Our students are our future. Our alumni will eventually run our nation and they are what our world will come to depend on. It is our job to successfully teach them and equip them with the skills they need to live successful lives and teach their future generations. Currently we are not completely fulfilling our responsibility. Many of us only see the problem in our teachers, but it 's not totally their fault. Our entire system is corrupt, from the standardized tests to the curriculum. The system simply does not work for all types of people.