Oct 8 2012: It must come to and end!
We're all different! How come they think we should learn pretty much the same stuff and be expected to reach a specific score on a standardised test?
I'm on my penultimate year of high school here in Brazil and I'm quite fed up with it by now. I study at a private school, as most public schools here suck.
Oct 8 2012: Truer words were never spoken.
We teach kids how to perform well in standardised tests, but do we really prepare them for the real life?
Do we give them the necessary tools to do so? I don't think so.
Students are prepared to be robots, mindless workers instead of thinkers, doers.
By the time we understand this, I hope it's not too late.
My name's Saulo and I'm from Brazil. I'm currently 17 years old and I'm quite fed up with this archaic and outdated system we have at present. It's not endemic in Brazil, though. It happens in every corner around the globe. People wrongly assess diplomas alongside with formal education being more important than the practical application of that matter per se. They just care about whether you have a diploma or not.
I'm on my penultimate year of high school and it's being really tough to keep up with this. They oblige us to load our brains with lots of information we're most likely not to ever use! Scarcely have we time to even think about what we're learning, as we are expected just to do well on a standardised test that pretends to value how intelligent or likely to succeed we are. That's totally wrong! I learn a lot of things from books, people, the internet... Furthermore, school doesn't teach us the necessary tools we need to learn, it only teaches us how to perform well in a test. It doesn't set us for life. I strongly feel that I've wasted many years of my life stuck in a classroom :(
In a nutshell, I'd like to know whether it's really necessary to go through all of this (finish high school, go to college and follow a well-worn path that has been previously set for us to take).
The thing is, I aim to become a successful entrepreneur, I fancy learning by any means, but I'd far rather if it were in a more intimate and informal way.
Thank you for your attention, greetings from Brazil :)
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We're all different! How come they think we should learn pretty much the same stuff and be expected to reach a specific score on a standardised test?
I'm on my penultimate year of high school here in Brazil and I'm quite fed up with it by now. I study at a private school, as most public schools here suck.
A reply on Conversation: Live Chat today at 4pm Eastern: "Why School? How Education Must Change When Information and Learning Are Everywhere"
We teach kids how to perform well in standardised tests, but do we really prepare them for the real life?
Do we give them the necessary tools to do so? I don't think so.
Students are prepared to be robots, mindless workers instead of thinkers, doers.
By the time we understand this, I hope it's not too late.
A comment on Conversation: Live Chat today at 4pm Eastern: "Why School? How Education Must Change When Information and Learning Are Everywhere"
My name's Saulo and I'm from Brazil. I'm currently 17 years old and I'm quite fed up with this archaic and outdated system we have at present. It's not endemic in Brazil, though. It happens in every corner around the globe. People wrongly assess diplomas alongside with formal education being more important than the practical application of that matter per se. They just care about whether you have a diploma or not.
I'm on my penultimate year of high school and it's being really tough to keep up with this. They oblige us to load our brains with lots of information we're most likely not to ever use! Scarcely have we time to even think about what we're learning, as we are expected just to do well on a standardised test that pretends to value how intelligent or likely to succeed we are. That's totally wrong! I learn a lot of things from books, people, the internet... Furthermore, school doesn't teach us the necessary tools we need to learn, it only teaches us how to perform well in a test. It doesn't set us for life. I strongly feel that I've wasted many years of my life stuck in a classroom :(
In a nutshell, I'd like to know whether it's really necessary to go through all of this (finish high school, go to college and follow a well-worn path that has been previously set for us to take).
The thing is, I aim to become a successful entrepreneur, I fancy learning by any means, but I'd far rather if it were in a more intimate and informal way.
Thank you for your attention, greetings from Brazil :)