Modern education is obsessed with rankings blights the lives of intelligent pupils – never more so than at exam time.
Education!!!
Are we realizing what,s wrong with us?
Do not study for gaining top marks,
study to understand.
# To Learn – to gain knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something.
Relationships among population growth, technological change and education are complex. The theory of quantity-quality trade-offs in numbers and education of children has limited applicability where immediate contributions of children to the household economy are urgent.
# To Study – to read, memorize facts, attend school, etc., in order to learn about a subject.
** This is why we can say “I studied but I did not learn anything.
Ask yourself the most important questions for understanding:
– What?
What was just described (in my own words)? What concepts is it connected to or based upon?
– Why?
Why am I being asked to learn this? Why is this idea being brought up at this point?
-- How?
How does this relate to what we learned earlier? How do I know its true? How does this work in the world I live in?
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Schools report that half their pupils are buying private tuition to help with exams. School sports, art and music are being slashed to make way for math and science “revision”. The signs of stress are blatant. One in 10 schoolchildren now has a “clinically diagnosed with mental illness”. Rates of teenage self-harm have risen dramatically in the last decade. Student suicide rates are soaring.
An increasing awareness of the socialization function of education, of the screening hypothesis, of the incomplete employment contract and of labor market segmentation is leading, it is argued, to a picture of the economic value of schooling which is simply miles removed from the old-fashioned belief that education enhances cognitive knowledge and that employers pay educated people more because they know more. The new way of looking at the economic value of schooling is illustrated by the example of youth training and work experience projects.
If children cannot recall what they were taught two months ago, how will they remember it for life
The conclusion is that turning schools into academies does not boost results. The teachers are slaves to targets and measurements, so they just teach the test. It is easier. The normal components of a rounded education go by the board.