Field Observation Of Childhood Education

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This was a very eye-opening video. I never really saw our education system as a factory line till Sir Ken Robinson pointed it out but it makes sense. I do agree with him the education system is stopping divergent thinking even earlier now. Curiosity, creativity and imagination is what childhood is about. A child needs all three in order to develop properly. If it's stopped at an early age it's bound to have devastating side-effects. During my field observation, the one thing I have realized is that school has changed a lot over the past decade. When I was in Kindergarten in 2000, I remember playing and reading Dr. Seuss books. We rarely sat down to do work, at most a kindergartner sat down maybe an hour or two to do classwork. However, now

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