I'm skeptical about education.
Since Ken Robinson's talk on TED on "schools killing creativity," I've start to distrust educational institutions.
Most of what is taught is uninspiring jargon from schools that promote box-thinking, memory based learning and mid-night cramming. All of which is forgotten after one month after leaving school.
Upon entering the real world, you'll probably spend more time unlearning and readapting, than you would actually spend putting your education to use.
Unfortunately we cant do without it.
And until we find some a new, more inspiring way of learning, we will just have to make better what we have. This school in Brazil has found an interesting way of doing it:
Brazilian School Kids Have Been Learning English By Correcting Celebrities’ Grammar On Twitter
Since Ken Robinson's talk on TED on "schools killing creativity," I've start to distrust educational institutions.
Most of what is taught is uninspiring jargon from schools that promote box-thinking, memory based learning and mid-night cramming. All of which is forgotten after one month after leaving school.
Upon entering the real world, you'll probably spend more time unlearning and readapting, than you would actually spend putting your education to use.
Unfortunately we cant do without it.
And until we find some a new, more inspiring way of learning, we will just have to make better what we have. This school in Brazil has found an interesting way of doing it:
Brazilian School Kids Have Been Learning English By Correcting Celebrities’ Grammar On Twitter
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