Imagine you’re 15, with dyslexia, and aspire to be a scientist. You are in a Munich based school and are a very creative problem-solver, but have problems with other children and teachers so you drop out. Then you take an exam for a school in Zurich, but you fail it. The life you have just fantasized was the premature life of Albert Einstein, who would later go on to win the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. Though he did bad in school, he still succeeded as shown by his prize. This raises the question that whether intelligence is limited to academia. There are many young individuals who aspire to be successful, but are blocked by a wall of getting good grades. Grades prove an individual's ability to memorize information that they have copied from
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In this novel, books have been censored due to them making other people feel inferior to others who excel at analyzing books better then they do. This is similar to our society because we also make kids feel inferior to others because they get worse grades then the other. The truth is the student that is ranked less could be the next Albert Einstein, but alas he/she has test anxiety and is tired often so he gets worse grades than others andbecasuse of this he gets sad frequently and can’t reach his full potential. This is just one of many hypothetical instances. My point is not to say that we should exterminate books, but we should start to stray away from making students feel inferior to another so they can avoid sadness and develop their intellect without having to worry about rank. Also a character named Clarisse, in the novel said that schools just give you answers, which she objects to as she is an intuitive thinker. This draws comparisons to our world, as we also a memory based school system that leaves the intuitive thinkers. If there is a question about a fact then almost all the time the response to the question is another fact or just no reason at all, so intuitive thinkers aren’t able to truly ponder questions. For example, if a math teacher were to give an equation, an intuitive thinker might wonder how is this applicable, or how the equation was formed, The intuitive thinker in this example
In this novel, books have been censored due to them making other people feel inferior to others who excel at analyzing books better then they do. This is similar to our society because we also make kids feel inferior to others because they get worse grades then the other. The truth is the student that is ranked less could be the next Albert Einstein, but alas he/she has test anxiety and is tired often so he gets worse grades than others andbecasuse of this he gets sad frequently and can’t reach his full potential. This is just one of many hypothetical instances. My point is not to say that we should exterminate books, but we should start to stray away from making students feel inferior to another so they can avoid sadness and develop their intellect without having to worry about rank. Also a character named Clarisse, in the novel said that schools just give you answers, which she objects to as she is an intuitive thinker. This draws comparisons to our world, as we also a memory based school system that leaves the intuitive thinkers. If there is a question about a fact then almost all the time the response to the question is another fact or just no reason at all, so intuitive thinkers aren’t able to truly ponder questions. For example, if a math teacher were to give an equation, an intuitive thinker might wonder how is this applicable, or how the equation was formed, The intuitive thinker in this example