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Reflective Essay On Modern Education System

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On Modern Education
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The modern education system has become a sterile, crystallised standard. In The Green Book, the infamous Muammar Al Qaddafi goes as far as to say, “state-controlled education...is a method of supressing freedom”. Nevertheless, in spite of this exaggerated and idealistic statement, a grain of truth may still prevail.

Obligatory frontal teaching - a system which comprises a teacher that delivers a lesson to a series of students in a classroom setting - is the most popular way of teaching in education institutions. Despite being widespread, this system is not to be placed on moral high ground, id est the definitive system of academia and erudition, a fact most sheeple seem to believe. Ergo, first …show more content…

Moreover, pedantic academic curriculums are sterile and pre-determined. When I was studying music at a local school1, I knew everything in the syllabus before I had even started the semester. To make things worse, my teacher was an incompetent schmuck who had no knowledge beyond the pre-digested curriculum. Thus, due to the aforementioned sterility of the pre-determined curriculum, my thirst for musical knowledge had been repressed ad baculum and my interest was not piqued. In frontal teaching, the academic establishment should survey and reprimand educators (a la Orwell’s 1984 if needs be) unless they are flexible, knowledgeable, entertaining, disciplined and surprising. Otherwise, frontal teaching will not work. Teachers ought to be multi-faceted: educators, entertainters as well as law-enforcement …show more content…

Yes, they can play the piano very well, but they have limited knowledge of music and basic citizenship. At the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, I met this Chinese girl who in spite of looking 8 years old, was just 2 years younger than me. Nevertheless, I told her that she’s a technically equipped pianist so as to subsequently develop a conversation on Chinese governance (a subject which eruditely piques my interest). After some pianistic technobabble, I asked her what she thinks of China’s “communism” (ie. authoritarianism). In spite of being relatively fluent in English (whilst also successfully playing Granados’ Allegro de Concert), she does not know what socio-political, semiotic system she’s in the midst of. Suddently, akin to a mentally enslaved conformist moron, she then ended the conversation by saying, “ I like China’s governence”. This is what I do not want to see in citizens. If their is one maxim I believe in is that which is concerned with the importance of change and the questioning common

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