For the most part I agree with what was said in the video; although, I do have some disagreements. The school system is made to prepare you for a job. Everything is based on competition; who gets the better grade on the test, who answers the questions the teacher makes, who has the better G.P.A. You can study the questions to a test a day before and pass it but then you’ll forget most of it the day after the
test. Most classes are “narratives” as they said in the video, classes based on a teacher giving a lecture without engaging the students. It’s as if the teacher we’re talking to a wall. The school system teaches
kids to memorize rather than to learn. I think we're naturally competitive. However, most student's don't necessarily think of competing against each other. I believe most of the time we're in competition with ourselves. I disagree that competition takes away the notion of people wanting to learn. I think it encourages them to learn more. Like for example, a difficult subject might not be pleasing to learn because of how much it makes us think and analyze. However, when a grade is given to you, it forces you to learn for the sake of keeping a good grade. Competition is not necessarily unhealthy because it does get the best out of us. And the competition is not individual all the time, sometimes we have projects with other people. In fact a lot of our work is done in group- at least from my experience. All the group work teaches us how to work with others. We're not always acting individually. We don't get the sense that we're isolated, we work as a community, in order to accomplish our goals. That is however, preparing us for a job. I also disagree that teachers don't engage their students. Teaching is revolutionizing. I believe it's a human behavior for us to not engage in things that are difficult. However, like they said in the video, we would be motivated to learn more if the subject we were learning would be presented in a much more fun way. I remember in my french class we had a lot of activities that involved group work. We engaged in conversations with each other and it helped a lot more. We learned from each other; when you pronounced something wrong your partner would correct you. We would have the class divided in two, and we would have a competition based on the new vocabulary. The fact that we competed against each other made it that much more interesting. We were concentrated on winning but unconsciously we were learning at the same time. Everyday in class was different. We were learning in many different ways: visually, listening, writing and communicating. It's easy to learn when you are having fun. I agree that school is made to "prepare" you for a job. I agree that memorization can kill creativity. I remember watching my little cousin drawing with a friend, and my cousin was drawing out of the outline of some cartoon and the other kid would stay inside the outline. At first I thought " why can't you draw like your friend" Then I thought to myself "maybe my cousin just has terrible hand coordination". After having watched the video though, I thought of what they said about the teaching methods today making us more like robots. Robots that are programmed to follow a set of actions. So I agree that a good teacher give us information but he doesn't tell us what to think about it. We are left to decide weather it's right or wrong. Are ideas and beliefs should be shaped by us, not a system.
test. Most classes are “narratives” as they said in the video, classes based on a teacher giving a lecture without engaging the students. It’s as if the teacher we’re talking to a wall. The school system teaches
kids to memorize rather than to learn. I think we're naturally competitive. However, most student's don't necessarily think of competing against each other. I believe most of the time we're in competition with ourselves. I disagree that competition takes away the notion of people wanting to learn. I think it encourages them to learn more. Like for example, a difficult subject might not be pleasing to learn because of how much it makes us think and analyze. However, when a grade is given to you, it forces you to learn for the sake of keeping a good grade. Competition is not necessarily unhealthy because it does get the best out of us. And the competition is not individual all the time, sometimes we have projects with other people. In fact a lot of our work is done in group- at least from my experience. All the group work teaches us how to work with others. We're not always acting individually. We don't get the sense that we're isolated, we work as a community, in order to accomplish our goals. That is however, preparing us for a job. I also disagree that teachers don't engage their students. Teaching is revolutionizing. I believe it's a human behavior for us to not engage in things that are difficult. However, like they said in the video, we would be motivated to learn more if the subject we were learning would be presented in a much more fun way. I remember in my french class we had a lot of activities that involved group work. We engaged in conversations with each other and it helped a lot more. We learned from each other; when you pronounced something wrong your partner would correct you. We would have the class divided in two, and we would have a competition based on the new vocabulary. The fact that we competed against each other made it that much more interesting. We were concentrated on winning but unconsciously we were learning at the same time. Everyday in class was different. We were learning in many different ways: visually, listening, writing and communicating. It's easy to learn when you are having fun. I agree that school is made to "prepare" you for a job. I agree that memorization can kill creativity. I remember watching my little cousin drawing with a friend, and my cousin was drawing out of the outline of some cartoon and the other kid would stay inside the outline. At first I thought " why can't you draw like your friend" Then I thought to myself "maybe my cousin just has terrible hand coordination". After having watched the video though, I thought of what they said about the teaching methods today making us more like robots. Robots that are programmed to follow a set of actions. So I agree that a good teacher give us information but he doesn't tell us what to think about it. We are left to decide weather it's right or wrong. Are ideas and beliefs should be shaped by us, not a system.
Many students have talked about this idea of healthy competition. I guess we need to think about who are we actually in competition with. Is it each other or something bigger, something we don't even see while we are in school?
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