Our Outdated Education System

We've been discussing the topic about education and whether our education system is really as effective as it was designed to be. But the truth is, it is outdated! I've read an essay earlier this morning and it stated that our education system has been around ever since the seventeenth century. The education system back then can not teach the proper content that we need in our advancing society today. As stated in other blog posts, we have always followed the practice of testing students with standardized test. Sure this system forces students to think critically however, the will forget the content they memorized for the test. And that's the thing: students are not learning they are memorizing. We have been under this system of learning and memorizing but not actually taking in the content and reflecting on it. If there is something that stood out to me from the weeks of reading education-topic articles, is that the arts (dancing, music, art) should be taught like mathematics metaphorically speaking. We are all different individuals who learn very differently from each other. If a certain activity, song, dance whatever it may be helps one learn better than that is something our board of education should consider. This will also embrace students' creativity and it will help them think creatively as well as innovatively. And that is very essential to our rapid advancing  society today.