UNEDUCATED

Education is a wonderful thing because it shapes the mind of our youth and inspires new generations. Without it, the world would be led by mindless, corrupted leaders. Without it, there wouldn't be the innovations there are today. Without it I wouldn't be able to read my favorite book, or learn about my favourite subjects. There isn't a problem with education or wanting to learn because the whole world should want to gain knowledge and be free thinkers. However, there is a problem with the way schools are being and how education is being dispensed. What happened to the creativity and love of our subjects or the need to want to go to school? Remember when we were little and we couldn't wait to go to school and learn to read a funny book, make a tower out of legos, scribbled on blank pages just to fill it with vibrant colors or would write our names a thousand times just to get the hang of it. Where is the craving to want to learn, the happiness you get when you accomplish something. The ambition. Because for the past fe years, all Ive observed are powerpoint after powerpoint, writing down the proper notes, staying in the lines, a world full of gray desks, bored faces and endless amounts of sheets. Sheets the have answers to questions you never need to know again and sheets that determin whether you get to be a brilliant surgeon making thousands of dollars or unemployed trying to pay the rent. Exams are what make school even harder, in my opinon. It's not that they are horrible, it's just that I see what happens to students before an after they take them. Before the exam, students are cramping day in and day out freaking out about how they can drop 20% in english, then after they take it they still pass. But when did life become about just passing? Saying good enough and losing the hope to try because no one has given them the chance to. We should be inspiring tudents because there are children who want to learn and never get the chance to.

Another thing that bothers me is ranking and competition. Why must we tear others down and pit people against one another. It's kind of cruel the way the make a show out of the person at the top of the class and I especially don't like the way they teach people in the same way when others learn diffferently. I have friends that don't see how much potential they have because gmark and assignment have implied they aren't good enough. Why do we let tests determine our intergrity? Why do we split students into academic and appied then look down on those who choose to go to college instead of university. School should highlight creativity and difference instead of shoving everyone into one category. Thinking and knowledge are power but its where and how we use it that make us strong. So here we are, in a world of people who are in school but barely educated. (The video above is a Ted talk of Sir Ken Robinson who inspired me and hopefully if you watch it, it will give you a little insight as well)

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