Education

Education or How to turn mirrors into windows

     Having given a birth, new created family started dreaming about giving the best things for their baby.  One from such things is giving good education. They try to invest all savings in your school period and continue paying for your education in universities.  And what is the sake? They hope, that being straight A student graduated from university you will definitely reach the stars. Do You agree with this common opinion?

I watched two suggested videos and bumped into interesting thoughts about education. Sugata Mitra tells that schools used to produce people that would be a part of burocratik machine. They took young eager for knowledge people and made them identical to each other.

    Another his thought was that we mustn’t divide people with unusual intelligence and remarkable mental agility from another. All are unique and being bookworm or eager beaver, learning many materials by hurt and burning the midnight oil allow, people with different natural talents can sit their exams with flying colors and add themselves to Honor roll . The real problem to excel in studying is bed methods of teaching. We never hit the books or even crack a book when we hate our teacher or lesson at all. It leads to skipping the lessons or worse, dropping out of a course. For such pupils studying is only goofing off. The background of such abhorrence is punishment. Sugata Mitra agrees with neuroscientists, which proves that when we are threatened, the central part in our brains is blocked. How can we study? Of course, we fall behind with studying.

    The author of second video, Ken Robinson, suggests another solution. He tells that real education have to pay equal attention to Art, Humanities, and Physical education.

You can make your own consequences, but when we don’t change methods of education in our country, I’d want you to remember such as easy as ABS things:

• -         Don’t make your child be a copycat of his successful classmate
• -          Some things come with practice
• -         Life lesson always gives a crash course to catch up with sth  you’ve missed at school
• -         Good marks don’t show that knowledge covers a lot of ground

    Remember, that the best education is self – education. Change your mirrors into windows by your own! Keep studying ;)