School is bad
for children
Jhon Halt
In this essay, the writer seems to be
against the idea of formal education about he is not in fever of abolishing the
school education, however he stands for the reformation of traditional teaching
system.
According
to him, schools are killing the curiousness of the students by imposing (forcing)
the final truth in their mind. When a child comes at school he comes with a lot
of expectation and frantically he returns home with the feeling of pessimism.
Besides, the writer argues that the schools change the students' natural
intelligence, curiosity, confidence, recourse fuliness independence, patience
and energy into pass, laziness, dependences indifference. Actually the child
has got immerse confidence about his potentiality but the teachers always
discourage him. The additional to this child, finds the classroom to be cooled
and ugly fabulously. There are other children but they are unable to
communicate with each other.
Most
of the schools separate the learning from the living. When they create the gap
between life and learning the children are confused. The classroom environment
is artificial and the teachers act almost like robots.
Usually
the students are taken as a blank sheet of paper and the teachers are free to
write on their mind. The teachers never trust the students and they never
appreciate their natural knowledge. As a result the children feel that he is
not worth of listening to.
The
teachers neglect the needs for the respects of individual difference. Every individual
has got different perspective snarl the teachers always try establish the final
perspective.
The
teachers teach the student that to make a mistake or to be confused is to
commit a crime and as a result the students start creating the teacher. The
writer claims that the schools are teaching him to be indifferent. The class
environment is just opposite to the way how a child lives his life in a natural
form. There is no doubt that there are other children in the classroom but all
of them are in silence. They all seem as if they have nothing to do with each
other's. As a result, the child takes his teachers to be inhuman.
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Reformation
According to the writer, there are
fundamental changes necessary for school education. The first and foremost
thing is that compulsory attendance should be abolished. He justifies that when
something is made compulsory it develops unwillingness from the students. It is
self-evident that forceful. Knowledge is useless at the time of crisis.
Curiosity is developed not to force but through freedom. Undoubtly, the critics
might counter argue, “If the children did not go to school where would they
go?” It does not necessarily mean that if the children are not compelled to go
to school, they will come out in the street. When the education system is made
free, the children will be more eager to go to school.
The
second reformation that the writer puts forward is that the students or the
children should be taught in a natural environment. In other words, the
teachers should bring the outer world into the school. For example, the
students should learn about the law not from the teacher but from the judging
himself.
The children should be allowed to
judge their works by themselves. It is better to encourage the student to learn
from each other rather than dictating what to the small kids learn more readily
from their teacher. They also point out the exams should be at list and he
fixed curriculum should also be abolished. His argument is that certain hours
examination cannot judge he ability of the students. Besides the fixed
curriculum units, should be given the unlimited potentiality of the students.
In
this way Jhon Halt stand for the reformation of the traditional system of
school education. In his opinion must of the schools are running natural
knowledge of the students and they are making them passive and dull.
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