Pre-K. Grade school. High school. By the time most of us get to college, we can barely remember a time when we were not students, not in school, not bound by the four walls of a classroom.
Are students excited to go to school? Possibly, they are not. It's worth talking about what we expect from our schools in terms of what and how they teach and what and how students learn. Educational institutions, in the words of Paulo Freire, create students who are "containers" and teachers who are "depositors." By the time they get to college, students have been molded into "passive entities" of received knowledge. Nowhere is this more apparent than for the student who writer and critic Richard Rodriquez describes as a "scholarship boy" who finds himself trying to reconcile the two vastly different worlds of home and school. In his written recollection of his own experience, he describes these environments as being at "cultural extremes...opposed." Yet, schools, for the most part, teach every student in the same way. For this blog, I'd like to hear from students about how the ways you’ve been taught have affected the way that you learn. What should, and could, schools do better than what they're doing now?
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