EDUCATION SYSTEM: PERCEPTION CHANGER
I’m a millennial. I was born in the 21st century where technology is already a trend. I was 7 when I first got my keypad phone. They taught me how to manipulate it but they never told me how phones were made. Even though I didn’t know how cellular phones were created, it didn’t bother me on using my phone of today because I don’t need to know them, what I have to know is just how to manipulate it.
I don’t get why us, the students, have to learn the derivation of a math equation if they could just give us the formula and/or the shortcuts? Is it because they’re teaching us that you cannot just have something you want too quickly? Is it because we have to be amused by the intelligence of the person who made the equation?
I don’t get why us, the students, have to get good grades on all the major subjects, but is only great on at least one major subject. Why do we have to constantly be good at everything for us to be “successful” and get a “great future”? Is it because that the “great ones” are good at any academic field? Is it because the meaning of successful only defines as a person who has a good image on their grades?
In a family reunion or gathering, A relative would always ask me, “Anong course kukunin mo?” I would answer them with “Psychology po.” My respond is always the same and their critics were the same as well. “Bakit? mahina ka sa math?” “Walang future don” “Konti lang pera don”. It might be true but to tell you the truth I cannot fully understand it and even though I asked, no one gave me an answer that would change my perspective and fully understand what they meant.
Our parents would always say “Mag-aral kayo ng mabuti para marami kayong pera at maganda ang buhay niyo”. Isn’t it too mainstream that the mindset of the people about having a great education is getting into success where we could get a lot money and have a great life?
Why can’t it be “study hard so you can change the world” “study hard so you can leave a mark on the history” in this world full of “study hard to get a lot of money” “study hard to give a great future for your future family.”
Why can’t we live in a world where kids go to school because they want to go to school same way as they study about manipulating using the phone rather than actually learning how it was created.
There is more than one type of intelligence. There must be something that cant be measured by the academic intelligence alone. Yes, it can teach you academic like physics, algebra, trigonometry but it diminishes your creative intelligence. It teaches a student do a certain way, to go to a certain path in life like finish school, get a diploma, find a stable job and be “successful”, if you won’t do that you can’t be successful.
I, as a student, I can inspire and influence the youth. We can explore outside the school. We can make our own path to the narrow and limited path that education sets us upon.
“No one has ever changed the world by doing what the world tells us to do.”<