Monday, July 7, 2014

Natural School Reform


Daniel,
I think you bring up great points about our current education system. I would agree that for the majority of people the intention is not to establish critical thinking in our youth. I took a class called Contemporary Social Problems, in which we discussed our education system. In particular about the foundations of our system being based on the Prussian-Industrial system of education. The intention of this system is to track students in public education for menial labor and to enforce the hierarchical class structure through monotonous root learning, simple task completion, and division of children into rigid categories.
In my opinion, Louv’s proposal, however radical, can do no more harm to our children than what is already happening. If it can assist in some form of critical thinking then I’d say it is worth further examination to determine its effectiveness.
Also there is something that I think would be beneficial for our education system and that is to not think there is just one way of teaching. In the field of education reform, there are so many ideas to improve the system and everyone seems to be looking for the one magical solution to apply to every student. I think this is a flawed view because what works for most students might not work for the others. We should adopt a viewpoint of teaching to each and every student, this means finding what works for this one specific child and then applying a proposed beneficial method for educating that child. This might take multiple teachers in one classroom and allocating more resources to education, but shouldn’t we want whatever is best for humanity’s future no matter what the cost?

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