Student Voice

9/10/2017

Let's hear from the youth about how education has failed to meet their needs and aspirations. Why are they supportive of reform?

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Ari Geary-Teeter

9/11/2017 11:30:37 am

As a student, thinker, and someone who strives to create a more sustainable and equitable future, the current methods of educating our people and preparing them to become leaders, dreamers, and doers cannot stand. For too long we have accepted an unjust and outdated education machine that works for the few and not for the many. Even in Europe, where advancements in education have far surpassed those in the U.S., there is still a lot of work to be done. How can we be satisfied with our education systems while, according to Gallup polling samples from 2011 and 2012, 63 percent of people worldwide are “not engaged” in their jobs? How can we ignore the realities of climate change, mental health, and changing demographics without giving the citizens of the world sufficient means of dealing with these modern calamities? How can we afford to confuse and stress our students with decontextualized nonsense and draconian evaluation techniques?

I for one am excited by the possibilities of Actualized Learning, as I believe it may provide a framework for a wide variety of potential solutions to personal, societal, and environmental problems. This is not the time to blindly follow ideas that have worked in the past, and it’s an even worse moment to conform to educational systems that have been failing for decades. Now is the time to aggressively try new ideas, see what works the best, and scrap the rest.

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