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Rote Learning in Schools

18 April 2014   03:53 Diperbarui: 23 Juni 2015   23:32 39
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Our brains don’t function as a warehouse of facts but for thinking and understanding the world. We learn from making mistakes and this also develops our brain into becoming better men and women.

But our current school system does not teach children to think. The current system will give knowledge and facts but not on how to use that knowledge. The current system will coerce students into memorizing that ‘information’. The current system punishes mistakes and praise those who make less mistakes (in a test the more mistakes you make the lower your grade).

Mistakes are needed in life. Without them we do not learn completely. I have an experience of breaking my refrigerator with a screw. Because of this expensive mistake, I have learned a great lesson and will give insight to others who are about to make the same mistake.

But what about in school? In the same terminology, schools teach you to not to use sharp items in the fridge but don’t tell you why. We are to learn things without questioning them. We are taught Pancasila but not taught why we have pancasila and not another ideology. We are taught that the sky is blue but not why the sky is blue.

A children’s young mind is full of questions that need answering. This is a natural occurring curiosity. But when that child asks a question, an older person will say the deadliest words in mankind; ‘Memang begitu.’

Sir Ken Robinson quoted in his book that common sense is the killer of creativity. Soon the child learns to hold in his questions and natural occurring curiosity until he gets older. He will start to think that everything was meant to be and should not be questioned. The child will rely his education deeply on schools. While schools themselves teach students to memorize instead of understand. The understanding will be later when you get to college and get a job. ‘But for now you must comply’.

Imagine the confusion placed on this child? Some might not get to college and some might not want to go to college because of boredom. Because what we learn doesn’t make any sense and doesn’t have meaning and isn’t fun because we can’t use it.

Memorize today, understand when you get old. That is our school system.

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