Changing the Education System

 The New Education System 

    While changing and expanding education systems are thriving in Finland and China, the United States has decided to keep their way of educating the population of young students the same. This system, in my opinion, is broken, flawed and unappealing. Educating one’s self should be a top priority for every human being, yet if you ask students if they enjoy their time in school, the vast majority would say they don’t. Learning new and interesting categories that this world has to offer should be exciting, but the setting in which students learn is not one any person would enjoy. Lecturing a certain topic that is required for moving on to higher and higher categories of education in a room of dozens of other students, each having different hopes, dreams and aspirations for their futures is horrific. Each lecture, in my experience, is at least 55 minutes in high school and 50 minutes in college. When a person has an average attention span of 8 minutes, this is not a good situation or setting for a student to be receiving the best education they can. No person likes being told what to do, they like to choose for themselves. When a person is told how things are and should be, they feel a sense of displeasure when partaking in it because these are not categories that they chose to take an interest in. The student should be able to choose what they want to learn on any given day.

Here is the setting I’m thinking of for educating students:

The structure will remain somewhat unchanged. Obviously a building that contains many classrooms. However, here is the difference: There is no schedule for the student to follow. Once the student enters the school, they have the opportunity to learn whatever they want for that day. The only schedule the students will have to follow is when the parents wish to drop them off and pick them up. Each classroom will have a different subject, containing interesting demonstrations and activities for the students to partake in. Students can come and go from these classrooms at any time. These subjects will be broad, ranging from science to physical education. I believe this will keep students interested in not just school, but actually educating themselves through experience and not from diminishingly competitive test preparation and performance. Also, giving the students the freedom to choose what they want to learn will not only lead to more enjoyment in learning, but they will see school as more of an opportunity to better themselves in any way they see fit, instead of a purely judgmental system that determines the worth of a student with test scores. There will never be any tests or homework for the students. With this system, it is only a matter of time before the student decides on a subject they enjoy more than others. Once a student makes this decision, this is when they will have the opportunity to either help their teachers by showing and demonstrating what they have learned to other students (at first with the supervision of the teacher) or moving on to higher forms of education within the category they have shown the most interest in.

Please let me know what your thoughts and feeling are with this new system. I'm a student myself, about to graduate with a bachelors of science degree in Exercise Science and Physical Therapy.

Submitted January 02, 2017 at 09:51PM by JakeFrStFarm http://ift.tt/2ixAnFO