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Our world is constantly changing every year, minute and second. The human creations like technologies, methods, fashions, furnitures, etc. will constantly be shifting and improving. Making these creations less and less irrelevant and impractical as time progresses. The minds of humans are continually thinking of different ways of renovating and updating something that has already been created but improving it. With improvements, it helps keep the economy running and being in existence. Yet, not all has changed over the years and that is the educational materials used in schools. To be straightforward, the fact is materials learned in schools will become less and less applicable to the future, since everything is changing and developing fast. …show more content…

Which is not true, because, “the real intellectual world, the one that existed in the big world beyond school, is organized very much like the world of team sports, with rival texts, rival interpretations and evaluations of texts..” (Graff Pg 301). Students can be intelligent at school or not, but will our students be intelligent in the real world. The insignificant materials presented in schools will give no chance of helping students be intelligent in the outside world but only intelligent in a school setting. Which this should not be the case. In order to capture all the students, schools need to start refocusing on student’s interest, but proposing the students to view their interest “through academic eyes” at the same time (Graff Pg 303). In other words, opening up the opportunity to explore their interests or passions, but thinking in a critical and an analytical way. Which builds up critical mindset to help them be prosperous in different situations. In addition, with challenges coming and schools needing to broaden their academic materials to help them face the different challenges in …show more content…

The curriculums in schools should educate students to be knowledgeable about the world around them, and understand the materials in deeper level rather than the surface level. Such as in a class of economics, rather than learning about the concepts, instructors should find projects that reinforce students to put learned concepts into actions. During my senior year in high school, I took economics and our teacher gave us a project on budgeting like our food, activities, clothing, necessities, etc. for one week. I found this project truly applicable because I know in the near future, I will need to start budgeting my spendings soon. I assure those, that many of my classmates will disagree that this project was meaningless considering that these projects will bring relevance and importance to a student’s life. Assuming that some students never get exposed to how to budget at home, they might never learn it. So updating school materials become such a critical aspect to student’s learning, because of the impact it can bring onto a student’s life. Together the goal of schools is to fill in the missing gaps where parents cannot fill, such as teaching independence and life skills. These types of tools we learn in school will help student’s face the new challenges to

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