Primary school education and preparation is failing to support and cultivate curiosity in students. K – 12 does a great job of transferring students within K-12 but is challenged by preparing students for college. Schools spoon feed student’s information and rely on student’s memory to recall the information for testing. American students score average on world-wide standardized math tests (below the Slovak Republic but ahead of Lithuania). Yet our education comes at a high price. American children do score higher in reading.
K-12 education is considered a chore by students and it is difficult for them to understand the reason to try hard for good grades.
Teachers rely on historical teaching methods that do not challenge student minds. Administrators get to where they are by not rocking the boat. That would create risk. It appears to be a growing problem, the stagnation of teaching techniques in the United States. Looking into foreign systems, it is apparent that the Finnish and Korean systems are leading the field in education. Students are given a different set of responsibilities when it comes to the way in which they relate to not only instruction but choosing learning applications.
Students are lost and challenged to find reasons to improve. They find school pointless and hard. Children seem to shut down when the approach is the passive way of learning. It forces children to learn in a way that does not use their own world of experiences inside the classroom. They are not met with the challenge of using these experiences and rather learning from the same text books that have a tradition of passive learning. Children become more and more uninterested in school and seek out other activities to make the chore of being in school worthwhile.
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