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It came as a shock to the whole house when the last born of the house said she was no longer interested in schooling. While the issue was still tensed in the house, I stumbled over an article that says "a child educated in school is an uneducated child". I began to ponder on this and this made more interested in knowing more about education.
It is true that been educated wasn't something that was achieved through textbooks alone or that you are a brilliant student is because you passed a test. This crude method of students memorizing facts and cramming only to download it for the teacher during a test or exam and then forgetting about them a week later. Please what good does that do?
A wise man named Howard Gardner came up with the theory of multiple intelligence. He said that there are auditory learners, Kinesthetics learners, people that learn through touch, people that learn through stories.
We have people with different gifts, talents,strengths and skills but it is so absurd and very annoying to wake up to the fact that our educational system is one that one type of learning is preferred. An educational system whereby both willing and unwilling students come to class, the teacher comes in, tells them what he is expecting from them in the test and comes back to administer the test and then the student with the highest score is pronounced the best student.
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Common this is not only unfair but also heartbreaking because this system is only sacrificing the God-given abilities of a student and the good of the world. My dear country has zeroed our minds to the fact that if you are not a first class student, there is nothing for you. They have made it even worse to the extent that an artisan who took sweat and pains in learning what he loves doing but was unable to go through the four walls of a prison called school, then nothing for that individual. Not everybody is born to be a scholar.
At a point in my life, I saw my self like an outcast amongst my siblings because I was the first person to ever repeat a class. Been the first born of the house, I only saw my self as a disappointment to my parents and family as a whole but I never gave up. Just because you fail a test doesn't mean you are "dull", " not smart" or "slow". Just because you are having a hard time understanding something doesn't mean it's impossible because there are no bad students, only inflexible teachers and sometimes our parents fault. When I repeated a class, I was a science student in SS1 back then.
Several times, I cried home to dad telling him that I no longer want to be a science student but he kept telling me that science is the best but he did not understand that I was not coping. My teacher was not also helping matters at all. He made me look like I was a dull student but he failed to understand that I was not meant for that class.
When I realised that these guys where not helping my life, I decided to take the bull by the horn. I changed from been a science student Into the Art world where I knew deeply was my calling. I am a person who talks and write a lot and this makes the calculation world a whole lot of hell for me. Although I never told my parents that I switched but till today I don't regret my action. I graduated with a first class from mass communication and I am currently running my masters right now. You could imagine a once tagged "dull" student becoming an excellent master's holder. Nobody is slow but the secret is you must figure out how you learn and learn everything you can about what you love and
I promise life will become a lot easier
Above this, i made my little sister realise that matter what,
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EDUCATION IS THE KEY
Education is the key to what????
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I completely agree that education has not evolved at the same pace as the evolutionary process of humanity, entire societies around the world, with few exceptions, have been concerned with perpetuating an educational system that favors what Paulo Freire called banking education. The student is conceived as a mere recipient of knowledge, instead of cultivating and exploiting their talents to the maximum, for the benefit of the social group that surrounds them. The fundamental goal of education is, from Piaget's perspective, to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done, men who are creators, inventors and discoverers ...
Thank you so much @adeolly-angel
That was the most fantastic and inspiring post I have ever read on steemit. May God Bless You In Jesus' Name, Amen.
It isnt necessarily about education. However on a broad scale education takes place everywhere. It shouldnt always be in the four walls of a classroom block. However I feel the whole world has prioritized education to the extent that, to be successful one needs a little bit of it. So yes education remains the key.
Actually true,college degree or grades isn't a requirement for success,though education is good but continues learning is the stepping stone to every great man. Many great men of our today never had college degree and some dropped out. The concept of it all is you can make great success from just doing what you love doing, all you need is *know where you are" and where you want to go
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I wonder why some parents things Going to school is the only way to make it in life
Yes, we certainly do have different methods of learning that work better for some than for others. I am happy to hear that you found what works for you.
Your quote "Nobody is slow but the secret is you must figure out how you learn and learn everything you can about what you love and I promise life will become a lot easier" stands completely true. That was why I went into Early Childhood education because children learn by DOING, not the rote drilling and testing done in the upper grade levels by some. I wish they would continue the EC way of teaching even when kids get older! I'm so happy you didn't give up on yourself even during those awful teaching experiences, and you're getting your masters! Congrats!
effective teachers are very aware of the fact that there is uniqueness in every child...more focus is being placed nowadays on bloom's taxonomy of the cognitive domain.