What would you suggest ought to be done to make young people care more about and be more engaged with their education?

I’m only 24, so I don’t have vast amounts of experience to draw from, but so far I’ve been a school student, a university student, a post-graduate trainee and a teacher, and I’ve honestly consistently hated some of the core elements of the education process.

I hate sitting in class just listening to the teacher talk. I hate completing mundane exercises designed to drill the subject matter into my brain. I hate the traditional practice of studying. I hate working to tick boxes just to prove I can. As a teacher, there were times when I was boring myself because of the content I had to work with.

Not only is this how I feel, but I believe it reflects how countless others feel. The greatest obstacles have always been boredom and lack of motivation.

What’s worse is I feel education practices are driving further down this road, with a system designed to turn young people into exam machines and encourage “learning” purely through the threat of failure rather than through genuine interest.

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks the way we’re “educating” people has gone very, very wrong? I’m curious. How would you go about changing the system to bring passion back into learning?

Submitted July 27, 2020 at 07:07AM by RobSka17 https://ift.tt/302EdOi