11/02/2024
Learning should be fun. But I rarely felt joy in traditional school settings. Many feel this way.
High schoolers spend most of their school days feeling tired, stressed and bored. For many of us, school has been characterized by dull lectures, painstaking memorization and testing. We’re told to sit still, stay quiet and keep our eyes forward.
Perhaps most disappointingly, we forget everything we memorized almost immediately after vomiting it onto a scantron. And while forgetting is natural, the mind-numbing nature of traditional teaching certainly doesn’t help.
We sit for long periods. We don’t interact with each other and we learn in colorless rooms under fluorescent lights.
Eric Robertson, a professor at the University of Utah Honors College, said this “just doesn’t match up to how our brains evolved.”
It is time to remedy our outdated and dissatisfying education system. We need an education that encourages deep understanding and creativity. Instructors must dare to free themselves and their students from strictly traditional teaching and start exploring different avenues.
📌 Read more from Opinion Writer Emma Smith at https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2024/10/21/opinion-bring-life-to-learning/
✍: Emma Smith | The Daily Utah Chronicle
📸: Marco Lozzi | The Daily Utah Chronicle