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Children should be taught how to think, not what
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Children - our future. And our future most of their time in the schools, which, let's be honest, very far from ideala.Uill Stanton, activist, writer and blogger, wondered how to change the existing system of education to the children ceased to be passive listeners and become a real explorer . The site publishes this article, agreeing it with every word.
Today, the education system largely inspires children to ideas rather than teaching them. In fact, this has happened before, with for quite some time. Teachers urge young minds to accept the authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. Teachers tell students, instead of talking to them.
Teachers become translators of information. They just mindlessly repeating what had once learned from his teachers and did not process information, including the one that passed unnoticed by the critics. Children are not the masters of their own learning. Instead, their minds are used as storage containers.
The factory model of education, with a focus on academic and economic elitism flow produces obedient operating system, encouraging the coordination of each step along the way.
We are not seen as a complex, creative, inquisitive personalities, instead - as a part of one big mechanism.
The education system filters out the research part of our nature, the purpose - to prevent the opposition to the system. The system does not need thinkers. She did not want people who are asking questions. It needs people who are easy to manipulate and control so that all power was concentrated in the hands of the elite.
There are those who believe that critical thinking can not be taught in school. Socrates, whether he was alive, most likely, would have laughed contemptuously when he heard this statement. The same Socrates who said: "I can not teach anybody anything, I can only make them think».
If we want to solve the problem of education in the school system, we have to learn to ask questions, not to offer ready-made answers.
True knowledge can only be obtained during the study. Children should be encouraged to seek answers on their own. As for teachers, they need to provide children with the tools and resources they need to study subjects and making their own discoveries. A well-formulated question can inspire more than countless harvested answers. In every aspect of our educational research it is important to establish an open dialogue with students, encourage healthy debate and to allow children to make their own conclusions.
The importance of the teaching of philosophy in schools is underestimated. In a world where most people work as if in a cage running with blinders on the eyes, we must occasionally overestimate their perspective and look at the whole picture.
Philosophy makes us think, makes asking makes behold. Without these skills, humanity will continue to operate on autopilot, allowing those in power to suppress, oppress and enslave us in all respects.
We have to learn to think again.
via lifehacker.ru/2015/10/08/teaching-children-how-to-think/
Today, the education system largely inspires children to ideas rather than teaching them. In fact, this has happened before, with for quite some time. Teachers urge young minds to accept the authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. Teachers tell students, instead of talking to them.
Teachers become translators of information. They just mindlessly repeating what had once learned from his teachers and did not process information, including the one that passed unnoticed by the critics. Children are not the masters of their own learning. Instead, their minds are used as storage containers.
The factory model of education, with a focus on academic and economic elitism flow produces obedient operating system, encouraging the coordination of each step along the way.
We are not seen as a complex, creative, inquisitive personalities, instead - as a part of one big mechanism.
The education system filters out the research part of our nature, the purpose - to prevent the opposition to the system. The system does not need thinkers. She did not want people who are asking questions. It needs people who are easy to manipulate and control so that all power was concentrated in the hands of the elite.
There are those who believe that critical thinking can not be taught in school. Socrates, whether he was alive, most likely, would have laughed contemptuously when he heard this statement. The same Socrates who said: "I can not teach anybody anything, I can only make them think».
If we want to solve the problem of education in the school system, we have to learn to ask questions, not to offer ready-made answers.
True knowledge can only be obtained during the study. Children should be encouraged to seek answers on their own. As for teachers, they need to provide children with the tools and resources they need to study subjects and making their own discoveries. A well-formulated question can inspire more than countless harvested answers. In every aspect of our educational research it is important to establish an open dialogue with students, encourage healthy debate and to allow children to make their own conclusions.
The importance of the teaching of philosophy in schools is underestimated. In a world where most people work as if in a cage running with blinders on the eyes, we must occasionally overestimate their perspective and look at the whole picture.
Philosophy makes us think, makes asking makes behold. Without these skills, humanity will continue to operate on autopilot, allowing those in power to suppress, oppress and enslave us in all respects.
We have to learn to think again.
via lifehacker.ru/2015/10/08/teaching-children-how-to-think/
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