"What one sees first is how far short real schooling falls from the ideal of young minds being awakened! Teachers for the most part would be delighted to awaken young minds, but the system within which they must work fundamentally frustrates that desire by insisting that all minds must be opened in the same order, using the same tools, and at the same pace, on a certain schedule. The teacher is charged with getting the class as a whole to a certain predetermined point in the curriculum by a certain predetermined time, and the individuals that make up the class soon learn how to help the teacher with this task. This is, in a sense, the first thing they must learn. Some learn it quickly and easily and others learn it slowly and painfully, but all eventually learn it."
This quote made me realize that this was true, and the fact that every school was the same and offered to learn the same basic learning strategies was boring, and nobody truly understood what was going on. When I was in middle school I was basically learning the same thing that others were in the same way and students didn't get it straight away because others had different levels of learning. But now ever since I came to High Tech High everything is different, the teachers help you alot more, they give you many more options of doing assignments and homework, and they also give you the special attention that is needed in order for you to truly understand a concept that is being taught. Us teenagers get bored and distracted easily with anything that gets us off school attention, this is why more schools should get the students attention by giving us more tools and resources that we are interested in using and that will benefit our future.
Yay, I'm glad you feel that there are more options for learning styles at this school. We're really trying!
ReplyDeleteI like how your response to the quote connected to My Ishmael as well as your own school life. It is also really good that you can see what great opportunities your school provides in comparison to many other high schools. Why do you think that other schools don't give education the same approach as our school? What do you think you can do to help change that?
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you Karina. Your statement is totally true. Almost every school system in the entire country teaches the same exact, boring concepts.
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