Education needs an update

I found it interesting that the people in the audience ages 25 and up wore a wrist watch even though it

was unnecessary, given that the only function it has, is in all cellular devices. In my opinion the people

that wore watches, wore them just because they're used to doing it. I believe some things in the

educational system are the same. Teachers have not changed their educating methods because they're

just used to educating in a certain manner. The teaching methods in the school's I've attended, if not all

but most, are the same. Students are expected to learn from copying down notes and filling out

worksheets. All of the learning was based on repetition for the sake that it would stick to your head;

some of the information sticks with you but most of it fades away, which makes sense because of the

lack of practice. What I find interesting is, how is it that we remember certain things easily and other

things we have to dig deep in to our memory? What did the teacher do differently? What did the student

do differently? I don't believe that the way teaching is done today has to be completely changed, it

simply has to be updated-and it probably has to be a huge update, from teaching 1.0 to teaching 5.0. I

remember a teacher was telling my class " I'm a math teacher but sometimes I'm a language arts teacher

too" or something around those lines. He was explaining the origin of the prefixes on the names of

some geometric shapes- which are in Latin and Greek. I didn't put much thought into what he said until

now. I think that part of education is also a bit "out of date", that part being categorization. We expect to

solely learn math in math, English in English, history in history, so on and so forth. However, as i go

back and reflect on it, I do remember learning various subjects in one class. Although, I do think it

should be done more. Why? Well, we all have different types of smarts. We can use a certain smart to

help develop another smart. Like for example, maybe we are musically smart and we're trying to learn

something about language, so you'll sing a song about it. Which is the way we learned the alphabet.

Also another effect that categorizing causes, is hate or unwillingness to learn a subject. For instance, we

may be challenged with learning algebra because we don't have much logical smarts; we move on forth

through our lives, thinking we hate math now. If we truly believe that kids are our future then we

should help them so that they can help us. Lets change the way we learn.