The Passion Project II Response

Organic learning is a tender topic in America today. Although children in America should be learning in an environment evolved around their learning style that is not the case. Our education system is based on a philosophy that our children should be learning from a linear curriculum. Not everyone learns the same way, some people learn visually or hands on, and some learn just through inhaling information from books. Our school systems are ran like a factory in certain ways.  Big companies have goals to create linear products for the cheapest price. Our education system bases our pass or fail scale on a linear statewide exam. Every student across the country gets the same information they were hand fed by their underpaid and unmotivated educators. Teachers are almost like factory line workers making sure we’re all assembled correctly and have the knowledge to gain access to college. "It's not a factory; it's not an institution; its not a public service; it's a community." ( Jeff Duncan-Andrade) This quote made me thing alot about our education system. The men and women educating our children usually have no community connections to them. They are purely their for a paycheck. A classroom should be a place of great discussions where everyone is learning, including the instructor. Class discussions open the minds of many. I feel it to be very Beneficial to talk about my thoughts out loud with my peers and get their opinion. We need to understand that our minds are an amazing tool. When we discuss our ideas with other people we get to see things in more than one way. Too many people go through life with a singular mind set, but that is not healthy. 

   Why cant we be taught useful skills coming through our education system? During elementary and Jr high, i understand learning the basics and how everything works in the world. But when we get into high school we need to start being more blunt with our teachings. Why not send kids out into the real world with skills they can actually use like critical thinking. Why not prepare us for what lies ahead? Not everyone is going to give back to the community the way school teaches us. In America today our companies are outsourcing work to other countries for cheaper labor and materials. With the job market crashing and our education system skimming along doing the bare minimum on teaching us life skills. College is not for everyone, and that is perfectly okay. America is built on lower class america and the jobs that come with it. Not everyone will become a neurosurgeon or chemist. Once our education system utilizes our creativity and not our memorization skills, it will run much smoother.