Does Schooling Interfere With Your Education?

Have you ever felt like your schooling interfere with your education? Your skills, your strengths, your way of learning aren’t controlled by you anymore? As allegedly Mark Twain said- ‘Don’t let your boy’s schooling interfere with his education.’ And now I understand why he said that. There are strong reasons behind it. But before I tell, I would like to ask you-

What does school actually for? Perhaps most of you will come up with the answer- “It’s a place for getting an education.” Even I used to believe that, but in reality, it isn’t like that, it’s completely rote learning. The current system of education proves it very well.

School Vs Education

The word Education came from a Latin word called ‘Educe’ which means to bring out or develop, and ironically that too I’ve learned from the internet, not from school. The schooling is doing just the opposite of it, they don’t bring out much, instead, they are filling your brain with kinds of stuff and existing knowledge so that you can pass the grade somehow and can collect those A’s. That’s not education.

Schools aren’t an environment for learning and building the future, It’s just a routine race that you have to run fast to get marks accordingly. They test your brain retention and memorizing power instead of your creativity & skills and how smart you are and can be. They are just force-feeding us.

The expert believes that schools don’t provide autonomy which is incredibly important for children. Every minute of their life is governed by the school system. This is the reason why we feel bored and demotivated in schools.

See, if it is true that we all have gifts from God, we all have our strengths & weaknesses, we all have different learning methods, we have different passions and interests, then why does school stuck on the same way of education? Why only one way of learning is preferred? There must be something that holding back them to just chalk and talk way.

For the past 50 years, we are able to customize literally everything then why can’t we do the same with our education system? Why can’t we upgrade it? Doctors never give the same medicine to every patient than why the schooling system can’t understand this?

There are always different ways to learn, there are auditory learners, kinesthetic learners, we all are different, our perspectives are different, our needs are different but we’ve been put into the rooms for 6 straight hours without autonomy.

Something Is Wrong With Schooling

School teaches you- ‘Use your time wisely, but they won’t teach you the Time management Skills, and moreover filled you with projects that need to be completed by the end of the week with an additional surprise test on Mondays.

This tight system doesn’t allow you to take your own decision regarding what to do or when to do it.

Real education teaches you how to solve the problems in different ways, schooling teaches you, ‘Oh! you solved the problem but it wasn’t the way we taught if you need marks you need to follow the textbooks.’ As it is said, the school teaches you how to memorize dots, real education teaches you how to connect them. Believe me, there is something wrong with our education system.

In schools, you are rewarded for doing exactly what you’re old, not what creative you do that other couldn’t.

There is a study that suggests that self-control and emotional well-being are the main components to success, then why aren’t we taught this in school? Why were we never taught how to handle rejections, bullies, and stress? And they say they care for our life and academic success. Besides they left a big ‘F’ highlighting that you are good for nothing.

And, perhaps this is the reason why suicide is the third leading cause in teenagers. According to 2015 data from the National Crime Records Bureau, 8,934 students are committing suicide every year. That’s one student every hour in India. (Source:- Wikipedia)

There is nothing to blame teachers. they’re surely doing amazing work, the problem is they work in a system without options. Teachers have no control over what they have to teach and the way they have to teach.

You know when I finished high school and completed graduation, I don’t even know the basic skills needed to face the real world. I don’t know how to get a job, how to be financially independent, how to pay taxes, how to do an investment, how to apply for a loan. All I know is that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, some mathematical equations & some wars & laws. Honestly, I’ve forgotten 80% of the things that were force-fed into my brain.

Don’t get me wrong, I strongly agree that all this learning, reading & understanding is good, but how can all this be more important than finding one’s strength & weakness. There is a reason why we all are sent to school to be prepared for the real world, which is changing fast, But our schooling hasn’t changed much for so long, every year we are preparing factory workers. It is a system that puts more focus on Industrial age values. Perhaps that can be the reason why the well-known dropouts found the success of their interest.

“Creativity is as important as literacy”

Ken Robinson, British Author

Now even Elon Musk says, ‘you don’t need a college degree to work with Tesla.’ That’s what the world needs, we need people who think creatively, critically.

There are great people in this world who didn’t fit with the traditional school system, but they realized it and overcome their failures, but not everyone can.

Now, Imagine if schools actually helped kids identify their strengths by exploring their talents from a young age and growing their skills over the 16 years instead of letting them all follow the same routine and leaving them confused in life after graduation. Wouldn’t it be better?

Students are 20% of our population but 100% of our future. So please, don’t let the fish climb the trees. Who knows how much young talent already lost its breath under our education system.

Changing the school system isn’t impossible, see Finland did it. Their education system is the best and outperforms every other country. Because they understood the need for it, and other countries like Sweden and Singapore are now doing the same. It can be done. It needs to get done.

So, what do you think of the current education system? If you are a student, Does your school interfere with your education? I know there are a lot of people in here that somewhere think the same way.

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