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14 Fundamental Problems with School
5 min readMar 19, 2019
- It is more about memorizing than it is about understanding. Today, instead of teaching children to understand what they are learning and give them the ability to differentiate useful information from useless information, we just make them memorize stuff. Because as everybody knows, it’s easier to memorize information than to just search it on the internet.
- It doesn’t focus on skill, It focuses on age. To make it more clear; Einstein’s classmates where learning the same formulas on math class than Einstein not because they had the same talent, but because they were in the same grade, why were they in the same grade? Because they were the same age.
- It effectively teaches non-creative thinking. This is not just something I came up with, a research study conducted during 1968 shows how a group of kids tested at age five were predominantly creative and how over time they became less and less creative until a group of children who once were in their vast majority (98%) creative thinkers, became the exact oposite by the age 15 with only 12% of them being creative thinkers. weird right?
- Nobody takes the time to explain why the topic they are teaching is important and/or useful.
- It gives children the impression that learning is boring. I don’t even understand the logic of this, if you want somebody to learn…
