It is articles like this one (what we were assigned to read) that inspire me to pursue a career in education. I wonder about the person I would be today if I had such opportunities as authorizing my own education in high school. I wonder how much more motivated I would have been to learn if my teachers had been supportive of such a venture as the Independent Project.
It seems so obvious that new and creative ideas are necessary when it comes to helping young students succeed. We are all students are we not? We are all teachers too. Why must our society maintain such a rigid and outdated system of education when it clearly inhibits our desire to learn both inside and outside of the school system?
Not only is it vital that we instill a love of learning and inquiry in our young, it is imperative that we maintain this value of education throughout their formative years so that learning is never seen as a mandate that finally concludes after twelve years. The culture that surrounds the educational system today needs to reinvent itself along the lines of "Let Kids Rule the School" if we are ever to see continued progress in our development as a society.
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