So, I thought and thought about how to write this short little thing, hoping it would end up being okay, and apparently it was. So here it is, the proposal for my research paper:
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From
experts to comedians to common citizens, many people say that education is
somehow broken. Many people even have
concepts of how they would fix it, but normally those are crackpot ideas made
by people that don’t understand what is wrong.
Very few
people seem to understand at all what actually is truly wrong. Why do kids not want to go to school? Why is so much emphasis put on only finding only
one way to get one answer? These are
honestly all the wrong questions. The
correct question should probably go something like this: “Why are children so
creative when they are born, where do they lose this creativity, and why are
people not angry about it?”
Einstein
said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited
to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and understand.” If imagination is the key to a genius mind
such as Einstein’s, then why does public education go to such great lengths to
emphasize knowledge and to kill creativity?
Is that what public education truly does?
In my paper
I seek to prove that education does indeed go out of its way to kill creativity
and imagination, from the reluctant teachers to the policy makers. I will argue that this is the key reason why
our education system is broke, and once society understands this simple fact,
only then can we begin to come up with a ‘better way’ to educate our youth.
