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that’s the freshman in me I’ve been
through a total of seven different
schools each very different from the
next project based French immersion and
my experience at all of these has led to
me realizing but the traditional method
or I’ll just known the formal method is
really not the right way to educate
children for those of you that don’t
know what the so-called traditional
method entails it’s the method of
educating children by means of lecture
followed by a subsequent exam sure there
might be a class discussion in between
or maybe even a lab if you’re lucky but
really it’s just lecture followed by
exam often found myself gazing off
during some of these lectures and
thinking to myself is this really how I
want to spend my education is this
really how I want to spend my childhood
for that matter like I mean how many use
fall asleep in class sometimes exactly
quite a lot and is it because you’re
bored is it because you’re tired
probably a combination of both and the
issue with our current method is that
kids who struggle in school can barely
catch up I mean the statistics prove a
lot of how we’re doing in 2012 alone
fifty-two percent of kids taking the
acct were considered unprepared for
college that’s more than half of college
amount high schoolers considered
unprepared so it begs me to ask the
question are we really educating our
students the right way or kids if you
were parents I mean think about it you
make them sit in nice straight rows all
facing towards a common emplacement tell
them what to think eight hours a day and
make them compete to get a letter which
supposedly will end up to finding their
future are we really educating our kids
the right way the u.s. ranks 17th
internationally in education and yet we
pride ourselves to be the best in
everything else good okay that’s to be
able good wine and yet mediocre
education are we really educating our
kids the right way and look at our
classrooms too they haven’t changed in
hundred years more like 150 years they
were still based around the notion of
industrialization and educating the
common worker for work in the factory
which is why there’s ringing bells to
explain when things are changing and why
education system can be compared to a
well-tuned factory line the raw
materials go in and the finished product
comes out it’s also why kids are
educated in batches why isn’t it that we
can’t get over the notion that the most
important thing about kids is not their
age often found that it was ridiculed
for being a freshman no you don’t know
that you’re you’re just a freshman I
mean I’m sure all of you have
experienced this too so it got me
thinking what is the most efficacious
way of educating our kids students you
and me there’s the idea of making public
schools compete in the sense that you
can turn them into our universities we
have some of the best universities in
the world because they compete for your
business so if we were able to give
vouchers to families and allow them to
allocate them appropriately then perhaps
we could make our public school system a
bit more professional but then again
that’s just a short-term change and that
doesn’t assure that the school system
will change for good we can learn a lot
from the finish education system which
is the best in the world and they
completely straight away from
institutional standards in the sense
that they’re based on the notion of less
is more typical daiva finished student
look something along the lines of this
you walk into class bowl of finished
muesli in hand apricot in the other
maybe ten in the morning and sit down
until two and do collaborative group
work all day the teacher just being a
medium of keeping you on task and
another thing that they do is there’s no
homework I think that’s a major thing I
mean I know a lot of you are burdened
with homework every single day because
once you assign homework school suddenly
becomes a burden it becomes a job
becomes a task you have to do it kills
the love and learning that that is in us
when we were young and extinguished
anyways
the two main ideas which we can draw
from the finish school system of many
are the idea of Master learning and
individualization mastery learning is
the conception of learning a subject at
a much deeper level fully understanding
a subject instead of just learning it to
past exam and forgetting it by the next
semester we were able to educate kids by
mastery learning then perhaps they
remember things into adulthood into
later life individualization is
tailoring education to each kids needs
right now if that is done it’s called an
IEP and it’s for kids with different
learning styles but in actuality every
kid needs an IEP every kid needs their
own individualized education plan
because this would allow for refinement
of creativity and I mean if you don’t
feel like math why not do math right if
it’s not going to affect you in the
future so let’s let’s look to the future
and learn from the past Albert Einstein
once said education is what remains
after one has forgotten he has learned
everything sorry education is what
remains after one has forgotten
everything he learned in school it is a
miracle that curiosity survives formal
education it’s a powerful quote take it
in thank
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