Today's Education

    We are all expected to go to school until college. People claim that it is to prepare us for the better future where we will need to go find and make our own ways. However, in fact, barely half of us who are getting educated these days actually "learn" what we really need. The things we really need to learn, it is not some kind of formulas in the math textbooks that we probably will not even see in rest of our lives. It is not the economical graphs for lessons that is forced into our heads either. But this fact is highly ignored. Nowadays, the purpose of the schools seems to be just holding on to the students for half of the days, force whole bunch of information into their heads despite what their real interest is, and train them into all same ways. This surely will not help people to find their ways in their futures.
Therefore the school itself needs a change before trying to force every student into one same closet with 0 flexibility. The educational systems should develop various ways that students can learn through which fit best for them. Instead of filling up the textbooks with all fixed formulas, textbook can bring out better opportunities to students when they actually fill up the textbooks with something that students can really use their brains and think to figure out the problems. If the schools educate their students in a different angle than it is now, it can provide better dimensions in study for the students.


http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html


http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html