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School is trash experience is everything?!

  

Today I took a closer look at some of the ideas from virtuosos when it comes to education, what I found got me more interested than I ever expected.

 

What really surprised me and what really got to me was the approach of John Dewey, whom I at first didn´t wanted to do because I thought that I already covered three other persons, but luckily, I did. For John Dewey experience is the centre piece and it really makes sense.

 

More than 300 years ago Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity all just because he experienced an apple falling down, but experience is also the key element that is keeping us learning and developing. I truly love this idea because my favourite subjects are physics, biology and chemistry and if I take closer look why I fancy those is because I developed the interest myself and got interested because I had a memorizing experience.

 

Teachers also appear in Dewey´s education system but in a different way. If I have a lesson with a teacher, the teachers stands in front of the blackboard tells us something and write something down and my class mates and I try to suck the information up like a sponge. Dewey thinks teachers are there to give guidance and initiate new ideas and perspectives.

 

I don´t know what you think but if our school system had these fundamentals school would even get more enjoyable and a freer environment would take over. What do think of the ideas from John Dewey? Let me know in the comments. 

 

-Tentin Quarantino

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