To Kill a Student
“The only thing that is interfering with my learning is my education”- Albert Einstein. For the past century, we have seen education as the most prominent way of learning; but is it truly better. With all the reports on students failing and dropping out, what is to stop us from saying that the foundation that our learning has been built upon is crumbling?
Countless readers have had the chance to bask in the beauty of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. However, how many of you would anticipated that this book may have a lot more in common with our present day education aside from being a common reading assessment? Using this book, I wish to reveal to you that instead of students failing the education, it is the education …show more content…
With so much focus on only the staple subject (math, history etc.), there is not enough room for innovation. Schools worldwide are setting standards specifically for the average. However, because every student has such a contrasting list of abilities (a jagged learning profile if you were to call it), the average benefits hardly anyone in the first place. Moreover, that amazing things in the world don’t happen amongst the average (as many people in history such as Einstein or Ghandi have already proven). This can be clearly seen between the lines of Harper Lee’s best …show more content…
50 000 Einsteins or Gandhis. 50 000 people that could shape the world for the better; gone because of a twisted and lousy education system.
As of 2014, the US ranked 19th according to high school graduation rates. This is inadequate; especially considering that little over half a century ago, US ranked number one in the world. However, another study has shown that also half a century ago, the environment of the classrooms and the methods of teaching are very similar. This means that the education system is extremely outdated not sufficient enough for our needs.
How would you feel if we had the same medical understanding that we had in 1950? We would not even have thought about HIV, a disease that has inflicted a jaw-dropping 39 million people! Of course, that is not the case as we expanded our knowledge as we adapted to the new environments and lifestyles of humans in order to get contemporary medicine to help with present day issues (such as outbreaks or newly diagnosed diseases). That is where we identify the
“The only thing that is interfering with my learning is my education”- Albert Einstein. For the past century, we have seen education as the most prominent way of learning; but is it truly better. With all the reports on students failing and dropping out, what is to stop us from saying that the foundation that our learning has been built upon is crumbling?
Countless readers have had the chance to bask in the beauty of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. However, how many of you would anticipated that this book may have a lot more in common with our present day education aside from being a common reading assessment? Using this book, I wish to reveal to you that instead of students failing the education, it is the education …show more content…
With so much focus on only the staple subject (math, history etc.), there is not enough room for innovation. Schools worldwide are setting standards specifically for the average. However, because every student has such a contrasting list of abilities (a jagged learning profile if you were to call it), the average benefits hardly anyone in the first place. Moreover, that amazing things in the world don’t happen amongst the average (as many people in history such as Einstein or Ghandi have already proven). This can be clearly seen between the lines of Harper Lee’s best …show more content…
50 000 Einsteins or Gandhis. 50 000 people that could shape the world for the better; gone because of a twisted and lousy education system.
As of 2014, the US ranked 19th according to high school graduation rates. This is inadequate; especially considering that little over half a century ago, US ranked number one in the world. However, another study has shown that also half a century ago, the environment of the classrooms and the methods of teaching are very similar. This means that the education system is extremely outdated not sufficient enough for our needs.
How would you feel if we had the same medical understanding that we had in 1950? We would not even have thought about HIV, a disease that has inflicted a jaw-dropping 39 million people! Of course, that is not the case as we expanded our knowledge as we adapted to the new environments and lifestyles of humans in order to get contemporary medicine to help with present day issues (such as outbreaks or newly diagnosed diseases). That is where we identify the