Albert Einstein once said everybody is genius , but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that is stupid.
Tell me school, Are you proud of things you’ve done? Turning millions of people into robots. Do you find that fun? Do you realize how many kids related to that fish swimming upstream in class never finding their gift thinking, they are stupid believing , they are useless well. Well the time has come no more excuses , I accuse school system of killing creativity, individuality and being intellectually abusive. It is an ancient institution that has outlived its usage.
See this pictures clearly
This is a phone of today
And here bellow a phone 150 years ago
Here is a car of today
And here bellow a car 150 years ago
But watch clearly this one
Here is a class of today
And here bellow a class 150 years ago
Isn't that a shame and literally more than a century, nothing has changed .Yet you claim to prepare students for the future, but with evidence like that that I must ask, do you prepare students for the future or the past. I did a background check on school system and let the record show that it was made to train people to work in factories which explains why you put students in straight roles , nice and neat, tell them sit still , raise your hand if you want to speak . Give them a short break to eat and for eight hours a day tell them what to think and make them compete to get an "A" : a letter which determines product quality. I get it , back then times were different. We all have a past but today we don't need to make robots-zombies. The world has progressed and now we need people who think creatively, innovatively, critically, independently with the ability to connect. See every scientist will tell you that no two brains are the same and every parent with two or more children will confirm the claim. So explain why students are treated like cookie cutter frames or snap-back hats giving them this one-size-Fits-all crap . If a doctor prescribed the exact same medicine all of his patients, the results will be tragic. So many people would get sick yet when it comes to school , this is exactly what happens. This educational malpractice where one teacher stands in front of 20 or more kids, each one have different strengths , needs , gifts , dreams and you teach the same thing the same way .That's horrific , this may be one of the worst criminal offenses ever to be committed and let's mention the way employees are treated in this educational system. Teachers have the most important job on the planet, yet they are underpaid, no wonder so many students are short changed. Let's be honest teachers should earn just as much as doctors , because a doctor can do heart surgery and save a kid's life, but a great teacher can reach the heart of that kid and allow him to truly live. Teachers are heroes that often get blamed , but they are not the problem. They work in a system without many options on the rights , curriculums are created by policy makers most of which have never taught a day in their life, just obsessed with standardized tests. They think bubbling in a multiple choice question will determine success , that's outlandish. In fact these tests are are too crude to be used and should be abondened . Frederick J Kelley, the man who invented standardized testing who said and I quote " THESE TESTS ARE TOO CRUDE TO BE USED". If we don't continue down this road, the results will be lethal, I don't have my current faith in school , but I do have faith in people and if we can customize health care , cars and Facebook pages, then it is our duty to do the same for education to upgrade and change and do away with school spirit cause that’s useless unless we are working to bring the spirit out of each and every student that should be our task, no more common core , instead let's reach the core of every heart in every class. Sure math is important, but no more than art or dance. Let's give every gift an equal chance, I know this sounds like a dream, but countries like Finland are doing impressive things. They have shorter school days teachers make decent wage , homework is non-existed and they focus on collaboration instead of completion.Their educational system outperforms every other country in the world. Other places like Singapore succeeding rapidly, schools like montessori, programs like khan Academy, there is no single solution, but let's get moving because while students may be 20 percent of our population, they are definitely 100 percent of our future, So let's attend to their dreams, there is no telling what we can achieve. This is a world on which I believe, a world where fish are no longer forced to climb trees.
A special thanks to Prince Ea