Day 11: Dec 16th 2013
How the future of learning will be? Our schooling experience and learning process have made us like machines and as children we were never connected to our hidden talents. We were always trained to work only towards examination and impressing teachers. Now I understand the true meaning of cut throat competition. Slogging and rote learning the same Science topic hundred times, looking for all possible guides and previous years' state level examination papers, and repenting to an extent of punishing yourself for leaving a question behind are just few impacts we had that totally killed our creative side.
After watching these two eye and mind opening ted talks, I believe we are in true sense using only our heads to provide so much structure in educating young minds and ignoring their rest part of the body.
I often hear that Asian parents are most nagging when it comes to teaching Math and Science to their kids. I would agree to it as we have been wired in the same way by our parents and teachers. A simple instance that happened sometime back. A 12 year old was given a zero for writing a definition in his own words. He understood the concept but grammatically the definition was wrong. The teacher expected it to be written in exact words as in the text book. The teacher doesn't realize this small instance can be devastating and can hinder his willingness to explore and create things on his own. Just imagine the whole schooling experience being full of such instances.
Where are we taking the learning, backwards when we had limited know how and resources to fill our empty minds? How can we as parents tackle such situation so that we don't put undue pressure on our kids to perform well? How can we change so that we can help our kids to be proactive and not just preys to examination? Ignoring the school structure is also not a possible solution as our kids have to survive the curriculum and peer pressure. But we don't want them to get entangled in the maze of rat race and forget their in born talents. The only thought that comes as of now in my mind is when the bridge comes, we will cross it.
-a worried parent
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