Another Education is Happening

Response 4 

            Remember when you were young and there was a school field trip?  It didn’t matter where you were going, but you anticipated the day with much excitement to go into the community and learn something valuable.  That is what this article is all about.

            To form education through real life experiences in the real world, would give kids a real fundamental outlook on life and how it works.  To many of us were made to sit at a desk and listen to lecture after lecture and read boring text books, while having no clue what was going on outside of our schools’ institution. 

            Even simple things like cleaning the highways’, or roads would give children the sense of what littering is, rather than just being told, “Don’t throw that on the ground its littering”.  To a child this makes no sense, what is littering?  So what, what does littering have to do with me?  Or going to watch a production line of some sort, would give them a whole new outlook on how things were made, the people and machines that were involved to make these things. 

            I agree that we do need to spend some time in the classroom for writing or mathematics, however if much time was spent in the community we would have things to write about, and better understand math.

            To allow children to maintain the streets, plant gardens, recycle waste, refurbish buildings, etc., would give them a desire to be more environmentally sounds too.  The gardens would give them a respect for their vegetables, which we all know kids don’t have as of now.

            Is all this testing the government wants from their school kids really productive when these same kids have no idea what it means outside of their schools’ institution.  I also think if there were more “school field trips” planned, kids would want to go to school to learn.  Parents and teachers would have a much easier time dealing with the so-called ADHD, and other learning issues that are related to steady boredom.  Through the years the government has talked about increasing the length of school to go until five o’clock at night and on Saturdays.  I believe this would be easy to accomplish if kids enjoyed school, were out in society learning about real life and their community.

            There is so much we don’t know when we leave our parents house and finish high school.  I don’t know about others, but for myself I was completely lost on what I was suppose to do.  There was little support for me from people around me.  I was told, “you should have learned all that at school”, we’ll “no I didn’t”.  I’m now 31 years old, and still learning about things that would have been very handy had I learned in school.

            I understand there is a conflict between what the school thinks we should learn from our parents and what our parents think we should learn from school.  When are we going to pull together and operate as a community instead of segregated groups?