The Current Schooling System, part 2

At the same time schools offer only one way of learning and they try to fit in all these different children into one way of educating them. Students all follow the same lessons which are taught in the same way for everyone. They have become listeners and are barely doers anymore.  If we have to follow one guideline to success, how should we ever be able to develop ourselves, our talents, our confidence and our unique aspects?  Schools need to take responsibility for the colorless education they are giving the children because children have the right to discover and to develop themselves as an individual. This should be made possible by the schools.

It was after high school, when I first heard about ‘the new way of educating’ to improve the current schooling system. Different initiatives are trying to make schools a much more diverse and creative place and are trying to focus on the individual child and its unique qualities. So there was the answer on the questions I had in high school. It was possible! Education can be different, but I just was not in the right place.

More and more initiatives pop up that are in favor of change. For example, the schooling system should be more fixated on the individual child, its talents and its value to society. One of the change makers is Claire Boonstra.  Claire recently decided to switch careers. She worked in the technological app world but she wants to focus fully on the education world now. Her goal in education is to focus on children its value to society instead of pushing them in the way of the outlined path of working your way up in different levels of school and higher positions in businesses, or how Claire calls it: the status ladder. She wants to change education together with interested parties and influential people in education who think the same way. Furthermore, Sir Ken Robinson is an amazingly good international example of an expert who thinks schools should apply more creativity into their schooling programs. Sir Ken Robinson mentions the fact that children learn to accomplish things with their minds and learn to think logical, but not to make mistakes and come up with creative solutions themselves, simply because they are not trained this way.