Read the newspaper today. In it was an article about education. Dutch government wants to make some changes: less fun at school, more work. More tests and results. They want to get in the top of achievements when it comes to education.
I sigh.
"More work, less fun". It seems to be the motto of everything these days. Work hard, earn money and forget about living your life. Enjoy it.
Did it really come down to all of this? That we have to work so hard, that we feel important, don't have to feel anything anymore? That we forget how to live life, how to actually enjoy it? It saddens me.
It also saddens me that we still don't accepts that not everyone is good at working with their head. Some people are artistic, creative and need to work with their hands, not their head. So many children in my class already struggle with the education as it is. What will happen to them when it's going to be about the mind even more? They have so much potential, yet at an early age they already feel like a failure because they don't meet the standards required.
And it feel so outdated to learn things just from books. Children these days often require a different level of education. Their attention span is short. They are easily bored. Why isn't anybody trying to really listen to the children? Why is it so goddamn important to just be the best at everything, no matter what?
The saddest line from the article was that a minister of education said "These days parents ask their children if they had fun at school instead of asking them if they learned anything that day". So...learning means no fun? And fun means you can't actually learn anything? What a sad, sad world we live in.
I sigh.
"More work, less fun". It seems to be the motto of everything these days. Work hard, earn money and forget about living your life. Enjoy it.
Did it really come down to all of this? That we have to work so hard, that we feel important, don't have to feel anything anymore? That we forget how to live life, how to actually enjoy it? It saddens me.
It also saddens me that we still don't accepts that not everyone is good at working with their head. Some people are artistic, creative and need to work with their hands, not their head. So many children in my class already struggle with the education as it is. What will happen to them when it's going to be about the mind even more? They have so much potential, yet at an early age they already feel like a failure because they don't meet the standards required.
And it feel so outdated to learn things just from books. Children these days often require a different level of education. Their attention span is short. They are easily bored. Why isn't anybody trying to really listen to the children? Why is it so goddamn important to just be the best at everything, no matter what?
The saddest line from the article was that a minister of education said "These days parents ask their children if they had fun at school instead of asking them if they learned anything that day". So...learning means no fun? And fun means you can't actually learn anything? What a sad, sad world we live in.
