LK-Abitur 2010-II, Topic 2: „School fails children by teaching them to parrot, not to think. Do you agree?“.
Aufsatz meines LK-Schülers Axel Ganzert.
Memorize Me
Does school prepare children for real life? What is required of a student to achieve good grades? It seems that the focus has shifted from being able to think on your own to being able to memorize a lot of information. This parroting might work in school but once confronted with new problems, students will have a much harder time handling them, because they were not taught how to think by themselves.
Children should be taught certain patterns to solve problems. This can be done by practicing similar things, giving them an approach to multiple tasks which cannot be achieved through simple memorization.
A lot of students have adopted a wrong way of learning. In most cases everything is revised the week before a test and the result of this is that things are not studied to be remembered, but rather to be reproduced. The problem is that everything is forgotten again in a matter of days and is therefore of virtually no use.
Finally most children are unfortunately motivated by grades and not the process of learning itself. They are rarely asked what they learned when they get home from a day of school. It’s usually only the grades that count. This gives the impression that it’s not at all important what one is interested in, only what has been achieved. The result is a vicious circle of demotivation.
School will always have to be revised and adapted so that children are able to use their acquired knowledge best in adulthood. There is probably no perfect solution, but teaching children to parrot and not to think is definitely the wrong approach.
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