In this essay John Holt makes the point clear that the current system of schooling for our children is bad for them. He thinks that the school systems across the country are limiting the creative learning power of the minds of the children by teaching them ways to fake the learning of things they are not interested in. Children learn more by exploring the world themselves and asking questions of adults when they can not come up with a solution on their own. When they are locked into brick buildings with nothing they are interested in, they do not learn. School should be one endless, educational fieldtrip, not dull, cold, white, institutionally decorated walls that do not stimulate the mind.
Even the things that the children are interested in are kept away from them such as other children. Many schools do not allow children to speak to one another during the school day or even at their lunch time. When in school, children are told by their “so-called” teachers, that they are, in effect, worthless. This of course is unless they “learn” everything they are “taught.” The children therefore come up with ways to cheat the system or learn only what they have to for a test and then t
Some people who struggled all the way through school find themselves excelling in prominent universities because they have found something that they enjoy and care about. It is much easier to attend classes that are liked than ones that put everyone in them to sleep on a daily basis. I think that society needs to be more open to making mistakes and learning from them than concentrating on perfectionism. Since the world is not a perfect place schools should not try to make their students believe that it should be. Schools need to take learning away from endless pages of meaningless words and pictures and move it into the real world, in real places, and with real people who have learned from their mistakes and are now very successful.
If school were enjoyable there would be no need for the laws that are in place to force children to go to school a certain number of days in a school year. They would just go because they wanted to. School would be fun and interesting. Kids would most likely be kept off the streets more than they are now because there would be something in it for them. They would not just be going to school because they were being forced by the government. As we all know, rul
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