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Criticism of formal education
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Recommendation to enhance learning
In the
first half in this essay John Halt criticizing formal education and says that
schools convert students natural intelligences curiosily, confidience, resource
refullness independence patiences and energy into passiveness, lazyness, dependences, indifferences, borden and low
self esletm. Halt fcerther says that the
schools discourages experimentation, creativity and originality.
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They teach students that learning in repeats from living and that
students cant be trusted to learn and are no good at it. The children from
school learn that the learning is a passive process.
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School neglect students need an interest and show no respect f4rom
individual differences
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They teach student that , “ to be wrong uncertain, confused is a
crime and as a result students start to dodge , bluff, fake, cheat.
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School don’t teach to interact with other people and to lives and
without paying attention to anything going around them.
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Schools are almost always ugly, cold (not interested) and in human.
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They encourage dishonesty,
--- and anxiety
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They provide, little
opportunity for students to learn about the real world.
Halt’s recommendation to
enhance reed learning and improve school.
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Abolish a modify compulsory school, attention.
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Take students into the community to learn about real world first
hand.
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Bring more of the real world into schools different professional
people to talk that they actually do.
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Encourage students to work together and learn from each other.
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Encourage students to learn to evaruate their own work and find
their mistake and correct them.
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Eliminate (avoid) grades exams and rank.
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Abolish the fixed, required curriculum.
