Friday, May 7, 2010
Dumbing Down our children
Recently we have discussed how in this day in age we are dumbing down our children. Congratulating them for just mediocre work, when a lot of children cannot read, write, or add. I believe that if we put more pressure on our rising students to be better that we would see great results. With more discipline to strive for better grades I feel as if we could push most kids and the effort is there that they will develop way beyond their potential. If schools try and push students to the moon we may not reach our destination, but may land on a star. Thats how I think the children will turn out if we stop dumbing them down and start pushing them past their potential.
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I agree that they need to be pushed to do better once they are old enough. I do believe that in certain instances that "lying" to young children can help them out. For example, when I was in the first grade, I was horrible at math. My Mom would make me do my homework every night and she would tell me that I was so good at math. By doing this, my mother was not rewarding me for what I was doing, but she was helping instill the motivation for school work that I would later need.
ReplyDeleteI believe that we need to kind of go back to the old ways of teaching before the big movement of worrying about the the students self-esteem. It seemed as soon as we hit that movement our education system started falling behind other countries. If we do push our students to "land on the moon" there should be a lot more improvement in grades and intelligence. We live in a dog eat dog world where the other person does not care about your feelings so why should the teachers
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