学校作业
Children are born with the capability to becreative, but our education kills their creativity. Children can often discoverand speak out about what we take for granted, and they are not afraid of makingmistakes. But in our education system, being wrong is terrible; we stigmatizemistakes, and creativity can’t grow without them. Second, there is a hierarchyin every education system, language and math first, then art, music, dance, anddrama. Therefore, those who have talents in the “low classes” do not feel theyare worthy and talented.
This is not a new problem, and thevisionary speaker, Sir Ken Robinson, revealed the profound difficulty in 2006.While people worldwide have already tried every means to promotequality-oriented education, they don’t work. Why?
From my point of view, since it is auniversal problem, it must come from what countries have in common. The speakermentioned industrialism in his video, and I’d like to speak more about it.
On the one hand, our education system isfundamentally what it was 100 years ago, when industries surged, factories roseand capitalism flourished. It brings massive education at the cost of “producing human resources through the pipeline for companies.” All thestudents, no matter what they love or are good at, are forced to teachstandardized content. As for the contents, since language and natural scienceare what employers need, they are of top priority. And art… they don’t producevalues for the company! On the other hand, our system is designed by professorswho devalue the body. By the way, our textbooks are outdated because theeditors do not update their opinions.
Problems in education are rooted inproblems in society. Our society wants standardized people, so the system isstandardized; our society only values “useful” skills, so the system hashierarchy; our society is hierarchical, so our system classes students. Becauseof a growing population and contracting jobs (due to intellectualization), weare suffering from degree inflation. Many people struggle to learn, while oursociety doesn’t need many workers who are good at academic subjects.
That’s why we need a change; we needdiverse, interactive, free classes to help students realize their fullpotential. Because creativity comes from the interaction of differentdisciplinary ways of seeing things, these systems nowadays only exist in someexpensive private schools or pilot schools. The majority can’t enjoy the fruitsof good education unless the structure of society is changed.
