In this Ted Talk, Will Richardson talks about how schools are stopping the independence of classes, and making them all uniform. This stops students from learning as well. Instead of being a place for students to grow learning what they want, school is being turned into a test prep. Because of this, school becomes not only uninteresting, but it also stops the individual growth of students.
I agree, classes should be used to let students learn what they actually want and will use in life, instead of being the same exact thing that everyone else learns. Lets say a student wants to be an English teacher, how will calculus help him/her? Or if a student wants to be a Doctor, how will learning French help him/her if he/she is going to stay in America all his/her life?
My point is that schools should try to make students want to learn the subject, they shouldn't all be boring and the same. Or else kids just memorize the information for the test, and then forget it. Classes that involve the student, and that are interesting, make kids learn better. Plus, not all kids learn the same. What good would giving kids the information via the same method be if they all learn differently?
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