Adults Should Be Taught In Schools

Adults have always been prevalent in our education system since it was invented. However, as Sugata Mitra stated so well, this system is outdated. Now it is time to evaluate the role of adults and explore the idea that children can explore and cultivate their own education. Adults narrate everything that children do in school, and many teachers don’t allow children to be creative in school, such as finding a unique way to solve a lot of problems. Many teachers feel as though they need to be an answer book, and when a student asks them a question they don’t know, they tend to shoot down the child. I have personal experience with this at my old school. This does nothing but to cull creativity, as the teacher never actually give the children room to think, to discover the answer on their own. …show more content…
As Kiran Sieth said, children have to feel empowered before they can create any positive change. Our current schooling system isn’t doing that. We need adults, but they need to be far less controlling with the way that classes go. A lot of the time, teachers feel like they have to tell children how to do something. All adults need to do is ask big questions, spark curiosity, provide access to everything children will need, and sit back and allow learning to happen. Beyond that, other than managing us in terms of drugs and violence and other bad actions, adults don’t have a place in our education