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Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free

 

 

 

During my higher formal education, I met students with different views about learning:  that was, either read to understand or read to excel during examinations. The latter of these views is a result of a formal education system that requires students to acquire a vast amount of knowledge within a short time. Thus, the way students respond to these conditions tends to restrain their minds and spirits.

 

 

 

Firstly, formal education encourages rote memorization. Students are expected to learn certain topics and concepts within a short time range, and then are made to take examinations. Most times, students are not able to have thorough understanding of these topics, and thus in fear of examinations they take to memorization of lecture materials, and notes. Therefore, it is sometimes normal to ask students about topics they took a semester ago, and they find it difficult to recall even minute details. This is one of the minds restraining effect of formal education on students.

 

 

 

Furthermore, studies have shown that the formal education system is more rewarding to students that are more obedient to their teachers, and passively agree with everything the teacher says. Smart and creative kids who normally like to think out of the box are seen as rebels most of the time in the classrooms and they end up not doing well in the formal education system. For example, girls are rewarded in the educational system because they are socialized to sit still, play nice and wait to be recognized.

 

 

 

In addition, subjects like mathematics, English and the sciences are nowadays given more priority than poetry, music and art. The latter topics have been shown to make kids think creatively and critically from an early age; also, their minds are prepared and exposed to learn more about complex concepts. Furthermore, it can also improve their learning in other areas. For example, music can help a student concentrate when studying mathematics.

 

 

For me formal education has been helpful, I learnt how to read and write with formal education, it has given me the skill of thinking critically, but my argument is not that this educational system is flawed, it is that in some cases it has some failings that has affected some students adversely without them even knowing. 

 

 

Conclusively, the minds and spirits of students are restrained when they are not able to express themselves in the classroom, and when they have to strive to make good grades in examinations without them having an adequate understanding.

 

 

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sorry ignore this post i already posted it already.......sorry for the mix-up. my fault