E.M. Foster states, “Spoon feeding teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon” (Foster). Our education has become this idea of spoon feeding. By definition education is the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. Students are being fed facts and information. Cramming the facts and dates into their mouths for further digestion. Students are being forced to learn what society, or the school board thinks is affective knowledge.
The worst part about it is not everyone learns the same way. The world has progressed but our school system hasn’t.
1.) Most schools and universities are overcrowded. Most of this overcrowding is due to school closings and having to merge. If school is compared
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Do you know how many kids can relate to that fish? Swimming upstream in class, and never growing to their full potential. Thinking they are stupid, believing they are useless. Scientist have proven that no two brains are the same, so why is every student being taught the same way? A standardized test, for example, is a test of a student’s knowledge on a topic. Not all students are good at taking that format of testing. It creates competition between districts, schools and students and takes away from the real goal, student success. Fredrik J Kelly, whom invented standardized testing says, “These tests are too crude to be used and should be abandoned” (Kelly). We want every student to understand the material given but that is being pushed aside and the focus is being put on who’s the best. Curriculums are made by policy makers, but most of haven’t taught a day in their lives. How are they supposed to know how a student learns best if they aren’t experiencing it firsthand? The same teacher is teaching students with different brains, different needs, different strengths and different dreams the same information. School is starting to be like prescribing the exact same medicine to every patent and telling them to make it work. Many people would get sick, yet this is exactly what we are doing in education. Feeding kids with different aptitudes and