It is like we have a personal tutor for ourselves. The motivation is mainly to help people improve in different areas and personal recognition. Millions of people post their videos on YouTube to tell people what they know. There is a lot to learn from YouTube to understand how we could improve our current education. Critical thinking, curiosity, and an open mind are the major ingredients to change the world! Developing the ability to think critically, providing directions and resources and time should be teacher’s main priority. Teacher’s added value is not in their knowledge, but their ability to guide student’s in the right direction. And they intuitively learn that what could be taught to an entire classroom in hours can be learned in a matter of minutes through YouTube. If the role of teachers is mainly to transfer his knowledge to their students, I’m afraid technology has surpassed the role of the teacher and that the role of the teacher is obsolete. “College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight into student’s lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either”. Luckily there is so much stuff to learn and to be passionate about that school cannot remove. That is not human, that is training people to think like computers, to think like sheep. We don’t want to fit every child into the same keyhole. I don’t believe syllabuses are bad it’s only that they are poorly applied. Unfortunately, syllabuses are there to make it easier for teachers to teach and not for students to learn. And you don’t want to be convinced that you can’t learn stuff because you just don’t have an ear for languages or that you’re not good in math. In addition to losing your imagination, you don’t want to think you are less intelligent than others (effects of poor grades). In such a system, it is, of course, preferable to get good grades. In that process, you subconsciously stop seeing opportunities, you lose your imagination, and you start telling yourself that so much is impossible. You stop exploring what is outside the borders because the world becomes the syllabus. This reality is a double-edged sword because it affects every child, even those that get best grades at school. That means you start getting trapped inside a wrong reality, a reality with borders! When you start from nothing and then start exploring your possibilities, you figure out that you can learn anything and that everything is possible.īut if whatever you have to learn needs to fit one square (the syllabus), then you will start defining your success as that square. It imposes rules and limits to our imagination and creativity. For the majority of us, school has become a place of boredom, a place to make us think the same way, a place of tension, and the final stop of our imagination! #2 If it’s not in the syllabus, you can’t learn it! I would go as far as to say that schools are so counter-productive that it drains our natural energy to learn. And because we still haven’t created a system adapted to make us learn, we never created a system that was able to educate us! But we don’t learn because someone tells us to, we learn because we want to. Schools are created on the very wrong foundations. What is completely incomprehensible is that we have given schools the monopoly to learning. And parents are particularly aware of this with children that never stop asking questions! We even dream to be able to learn better (dreams reinforce what we experience during the day).
If we didn’t learn to understand and adapt to our surroundings, we wouldn’t have survived as a species.
The strongest instinct we possess as human beings is the instinct to learn. Here are the five major reasons why schools just don’t work: #1 We believe that the role of schools is to make us want to learn In reality, it is destructive: Schools tend to be the graveyards for the genius we all possess!
Instead, we have created a nicely organized system, that in theory seem so logical and reasonable. And as strange as it might sound, I don’t believe schools are much different whether you are in the US, in France or Kina.Īt this moment, there is not a single country that has an educational system adapted to how our brains learn. Although we have access to education, the fewest of us are educated (I’m not yet there). In Western nations, we complain about the low quality of education (and we should). 5 things that are fundamentally wrong with school In developing countries, people are still fighting for their right to education.
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