Blog One: Two Cultures

Two Cultures


Hello guys, my name is Caleb Wilson. This weeks material was very interesting, but one video stood out much more than the rest to me. It's ideologies and information made me truly believe in what I had previously thought after being through out grade school and even UCLA, but the video supported the idea with facts that I did not believe I was capable of acquiring myself. And what is funny is the reason I didn't think I was capable of supporting my ideas, is part of the concepts actually discussed in the video itself. The video "RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms" discussed our educational system and how it is hindering educational capabilities and creativity of our young generations. The current system used in schools is stationary, not evolving to the new era's changes. The school system is hindering our students capabilities do to the fact that it has influenced students to believe that their education and grades will dictate their success and future. Brilliant minds feel as if they are not brilliant because of letter grades. Creativity is being taken because school systems and teachings teach people that there is only one answer for a question, taking a way the aspect of creativity and difference as a whole. Instead of allowing our creative minds to be creative and capitalize on their natural abilities we are instead giving children who do not have the desire to sit through "boring" school components anesthetics such as ADHD medication to make them robotic in order to conform them to the norms of school systems. Not allowing them to use natural thinking but now more controlled systematic thinking. Brilliant and world changing minds such as Bill Gates and Henry Ford did not have the most prestigious and formal education, but still found a way to impact the world they live in. People's intellect should not be judged solely on letter grades. Everybody has a different way of thinking, interpreting, and learning, and that is something I believe our educational system must embrace and accept.





Work CIted
Caroline Miller Is the Editorial Director of the Child Mind Institute. "What We Know About the Long-Term
Effects of ADHD Medications." Child Mind Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 
Crouch, Chris. "Grades Do More Harm Than Good." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 01 Nov. 2013.
Suits. "10 Very Successful People Without A College Degree." BuzzFeed. N.p., 17 Jan. 2013.
SA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms. Perf. Ken Robinson. N.p., n.d. Web.
Teresa. Bad Grades. Digital image. The Blog of Teresa. N.p., n.d. Web.


Comments

  1. UnknownApril 12, 2017 at 10:19 PM

    I like how you went deeper on C.P Snow's idea that school teachers are the problem with the separation of science and arts. In elementary school through high school, students are forced to believe certain concepts and ideas taught by teachers in classes that students are forced to take. Students are then given grades by these teachers and if it is not what the teacher likes then they are given a bad grades that then lowers the confidence and creativity of students. College is different because although you are given a grade in most classes, some classes are pass or fail. Also in college, students take the classes they want and enjoy because not every student is the same and enjoys the same topics. Students brains work differently and are interested in different things which is what makes the world has so many professions and intelligent people.

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  2. UnknownApril 18, 2017 at 6:45 PM

    I agree 100% with your post. I have found myself feeling discouraged at times because my grades were seen as the sole standard and representation of my success both in high school and now, at UCLA. Although we have more freedom in college to pick the classes that interest us and expand our knowledge based on these courses and topics, I do feel that the constraints placed on people when they are younger and in grade school carries through to college; such that we may express an idea or go about completing an assignment for a professor in a certain manner and it may not be favorable to them, which in the long run affects our grades and our overall self esteem. As you said in your post, the overall schooling system limits the creativity and individuality of those who enroll in courses--whether they have enrolled by choice or are put into these classes to fulfill a requirement. Although people do have different interests and different minds, I still do feel that the education system needs more improvement in order to prevent the stifling of a student's creativity.

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