According to Freire, education (well at least our system) is a huge cycle of memorizing and regurgitating useless information. I couldn’t agree more with the subject. As the world around us has changed in the past 100 years, education has pretty much stayed the same. I always had a feeling in school that what I was learning needed purpose. You can’t just learn for the sake of learning. You learn because you want to acquire that skill. Many people go to college and receive great higher education, but they are only there for the degree and the information that they learn from most other classes is useless. Most students I know don’t take Gen-Eds as seriously as other classes, because we have been taught that the degree matters more than the information. High school has been warped into a useless bunch of years to train you to conform to the normal, and college is just a means to an end. If you are taking a class on Spanish, you don t take it because you need more money, you take it because you want to learn Spanish. Now that our system has oversimplified the process and definition of “learning”, we will forever be taking classes for material gain, and not for the knowledge we actually need. It is a huge problem in the mental state of America. Our students get filled with extra knowledge they don’t need, and what they actually want to learn gets overlooked because they don’t need to learn it, they just need to have to get a good grade, and a piece of paper that says they know the information. America has lost its own merit. They call it higher education but the system hasn’t risen to meet its own standards yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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