After
reading this article i found out the similar beliefs that i share with the
author and some confusion as well. Every student that goes through the
educational system with elementary , middle school , and then high school have
been subjected to endless hours of the academic system. The system that
categorizes the honor students and the delinquent by their behavior in class
and the gpa that they have. This pushes students to be so utterly focused on
the point value of their assignments and exams that then determine if they are “capable"
to succeed their following school years. Since the students treat their grades
being the center of attention they rely only on memorization and dictation in
order for their grades to be good. They lose the appreciation of truly learning
what the the subject is about, beyond the dates and the terms there is the
actual realization of the history behind the development of the subject.
Instead, the school system rewards the students with high achievements that
thus help the school reputation because of their achievement numbers. In high
school , students from an early point are taught about how a student's future
occupation can impact their future lifestyle. This fear of not being able to be
financially stable pushes students to major in high income fields instead of
their interested occupation because of finance. Studies such as arts and
dramatic theatre are majors that are looked down upon by society due to its
occupants' finacial lifestyle. It is because of this outlook on occupations
that lead students to avoid taking majors that they would truly enjoy but would
be disapproved by their parents. There is always the fear of being a disappointment
to people around them, most commonly those are their parents; so as a result they
choose the job field that would satisfy the expectations of their parents. And
as they continue their journey to their occupation they find themselves ten
years down the road working as what other people wanted them to be. They then
start to resent and regret following the path of which others wanted them to
follow and wished that they just pursued their dreams. Most people when they
reach this point in their life it is already too late to go back to school and
try to follow the occupation of their desire, because of the setbacks they
already have such as a family of their own to take care of and the risks of
doing such a thing. So this endless cycle of parents making sure their child
will be promised a financially well future continues when they become parents
of their own and do the same thing to their own children. It is the
consequences of being brave enough to follow their dreams that might let them
end up risking their future because of their actions. However, if individuals
continue down this path of following the road of what others want them to do
then are they not just robots following other people's commands? Where is the freedom
to decide what they desire to do? It is because of this cruel educational
system that urges them to focus on the point value objective rather than taking
the time to understand and discover the details of their studies. The
traditional set up of a class room is the teacher being the authoritive figure
that stands in the front while facing a group of students sitting at their
desks, eyeing the teacher for information to be received. The thought that
teachers will only teach and the students will only receive is not true. Anyone
can be a teacher, and any teacher can be a student. Teachers can learn from
their students and students can teach their teacher many things. Such as how
better to improve the schooling system to better fit each individual student
and helps them along with their studies. Students who get low grades are often
not given options to how they can learn in a classroom; the academic system
decides how the subject should be taught, at what pace, and in what setting;
all within a set of rule for instructors and students to follow at their
discretion. The difficult school setting then proves to be too hard for some
students to handle and they are then left behind while the other students
improve by the teaching method at hand. Only when we are able to provide
options and changed to how academics are taught will each individual student be
given a chance to improve their education.
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