School is bad for children
Jhon Halt
In this essay, the writer seems to be against the idea of formal education about he is not in fever of abolishing the school education, however he stands for the reformation of traditional teaching system.
According to him, schools are killing the curiousness of the students by imposing (forcing) the final truth in their mind. When a child comes at school he comes with a lot of expectation and frantically he returns home with the feeling of pessimism. Besides, the writer argues that the schools change the students' natural intelligence, curiosity, confidence, recourse fuliness independence, patience and energy into pass, laziness, dependences indifference. Actually the child has got immerse confidence about his potentiality but the teachers always discourage him. The additional to this child, finds the classroom to be cooled and ugly fabulously. There are other children but they are unable to communicate with each other.
Most of the schools separate the learning from the living. When they create the gap between life and learning the children are confused. The classroom environment is artificial and the teachers act almost like robots.
Usually the students are taken as a blank sheet of paper and the teachers are free to write on their mind. The teachers never trust the students and they never appreciate their natural knowledge. As a result the children feel that he is not worth of listening to.
The teachers neglect the needs for the respects of individual difference. Every individual has got different perspective snarl the teachers always try establish the final perspective.
The teachers teach the student that to make a mistake or to be confused is to commit a crime and as a result the students start creating the teacher. The writer claims that the schools are teaching him to be indifferent. The class environment is just opposite to the way how a child lives his life in a natural form. There is no doubt that there are other children in the classroom but all of them are in silence. They all seem as if they have nothing to do with each other's. As a result, the child takes his teachers to be inhuman.
- Reformation
According to the writer, there are fundamental changes necessary for school education. The first and foremost thing is that compulsory attendance should be abolished. He justifies that when something is made compulsory it develops unwillingness from the students. It is self-evident that forceful. Knowledge is useless at the time of crisis. Curiosity is developed not to force but through freedom. Undoubtly, the critics might counter argue, “If the children did not go to school where would they go?” It does not necessarily mean that if the children are not compelled to go to school, they will come out in the street. When the education system is made free, the children will be more eager to go to school.
The second reformation that the writer puts forward is that the students or the children should be taught in a natural environment. In other words, the teachers should bring the outer world into the school. For example, the students should learn about the law not from the teacher but from the judging himself.
The children should be allowed to judge their works by themselves. It is better to encourage the student to learn from each other rather than dictating what to the small kids learn more readily from their teacher. They also point out the exams should be at list and he fixed curriculum should also be abolished. His argument is that certain hours examination cannot judge he ability of the students. Besides the fixed curriculum units, should be given the unlimited potentiality of the students.
In this way Jhon Halt stand for the reformation of the traditional system of school education. In his opinion must of the schools are running natural knowledge of the students and they are making them passive and dull.
