Tuesday, November 12, 2013

How Public Education Cripples Our Kids and Why: Group Discussion

We agree with the statement because he was taught how to teach by a system that he doesn't agree with. He states, "the work was stupid,  and that it made no sense." Since he was forced to teach in a way he didn't like he was bored for his whole career.

  • Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there.
  •  Of course, teachers are themselves products of the same twelve-year compulsory school programs that so thoroughly bore their students, and as school personnel they are trapped inside structures even more rigid than those imposed upon the children.
  • Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave the same answers: They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it.
  • They said teachers didn't seem to know much about their subjects and clearly weren't interested in learning more. And the kids were right: their teachers were every bit as bored as they were.
  • He told me that I was never to use that term in his presence again, that if I was bored it was my fault and no one else's.

  • This question can also be supported by Ken Robinson who thinks that the school system is crippling our students by squashing their creativity. 
    Also Dead poets society supports this question. the teacher Mr. Keating has a different approach to teaching. He wants to get the kids out of the classroom to see life differently and think for themselves.

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