The forbidden education

                Last Wednesday my teacher showed us this video, this video is full of incredible ideas, definitely every teacher should watch it, the main idea of the video is that nowadays the education is obsolete and we don’t change it. A lot of ideas have come to my mind during the video and I’m going to try to reflect about them in this post.

                First of all, nowadays the education is based in the figure of the teacher, the teacher in front of the class saying a lot of stuff and the children listening and ‘’learning’’ but Are they really learning? I don’t think so, with this methodology the children don’t get involved and that’s the best way of learning, that’s the one they’re going to remember as the video says ‘’If you don’t enjoy you’re not learning’’. Furthermore this traditional way of teaching is making children associate learning with boredom and what teachers should focus is on making them love learning. A child as the video said is first curious but we make them forget that quality by not allowing them to think by their own, to discover. The video also said that we teach a lot of prefabricated answers and what we should do is let them guess the answer first. We can’t forget that teaching is not about concepts, teaching is about people.

                ‘’We are teaching people’’, people is diversity so why do we teach every kid with the same methods? It doesn’t make any sense. So, as teachers, we should focus on the necessities of every kid first but what we do is trying to standardize kids and we don’t let them be themselves so in the future they are not going to be the best they could be. Traditional education makes schools look like fabrics or prisons because it tries to make workers not people. So this education is dehumanizing children, is that what we really want? We should change our minds and start looking to the kid and not to the goal.

                 As future teachers we should not worry about mistakes, we should know that mistakes will carry you to the answer, so why do we punish a kid if he commits a mistake? That only makes the child frustrate so he will not try it again. What we should do is encourage them if they failure, make them understand that a mistake is not a finish is just a part in the process and also necessary.

                What about love? Is love important in the process of learning? Definitely YES. We can’t forget that those children who are not receiving love are going to have problems at schools, that’s what as teachers we should have contact with the families because the family has a huge role in education. Being in touch with the families and try is going to help to understand the situation of the children and so the behavior.

                Finally, the education is nowadays traditional because we haven’t stop and think about how we would teach today if we had to start education from the beginning. We have to look to everything as we would have never seen them. This is the only way to start changing education.