Stop Stealing Dreams

I want to teach.

I've struggled through college looking at a variety of majors and future jobs because I want to teach but I the system is bad.  So I searched for an alternative instead.

There isn't an alternative.  I love people, I love learning.  When I learn something I feel... better.  Can you think of the feeling of being so interested in something that time flies by? I want to help students experience that.  But after my EDU 1010, intro to teaching, class I realized that I don't like the way school works.  I've spent the last four years in college courses and I've learned a lot about people and how we learn and there's this continual pounding thought that comes up in almost every course:

We're doing it wrong.

Many of the thoughts I've had are included in the below links:

http://www.squidoo.com/stop-stealing-dreams

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf

"In order to efficiently jam as much testable data into a generation of kids, we
push to make those children compliant, competitive zombies".


I can't tell you how many times I take a test and think, "what is the point?".  I'm jumping through these hoops that ultimately aren't helping and I'm getting so tired of it.  Why?  It's getting harder and harder to take classes and tests that are taking time and energy and money and are not helping me reach my goal.  Even the classes that I do care about, the ones about content that is relevant and interesting, become dreadful when instead of applying information, I'm once again studying statistics that 1) Are less interesting and useful than the other material, and 2) I will never have to pull from memory.  Standardized testing does not help us learn and it does not measure learning.

More to come.