My entire life I have clawed through school, through the same multiple-choice exams, through the same standardized tests, through the same blue and green scantrons. Every essay started the same way, every answer had a right or wrong answer, and the room for educated discussion was slim. I’ve now reached the point in my education where I could fill out a Scantron™ in my sleep. My brain is wracked when I try to start an essay with anything other than three sentences and a thesis. As a hopeful journalist, I had to rewrite my brain matter in order to write in a more journalistic sense. Now I am an avid and enthusiastic writer but under the constraints of standardized education, I found it tedious and unenjoyable. When my options opened my writing flourished and my current passion bloomed, and I felt more actualized as an individual.
How Modern Education Fails
How Modern Education Fails
How Modern Education Fails
My entire life I have clawed through school, through the same multiple-choice exams, through the same standardized tests, through the same blue and green scantrons. Every essay started the same way, every answer had a right or wrong answer, and the room for educated discussion was slim. I’ve now reached the point in my education where I could fill out a Scantron™ in my sleep. My brain is wracked when I try to start an essay with anything other than three sentences and a thesis. As a hopeful journalist, I had to rewrite my brain matter in order to write in a more journalistic sense. Now I am an avid and enthusiastic writer but under the constraints of standardized education, I found it tedious and unenjoyable. When my options opened my writing flourished and my current passion bloomed, and I felt more actualized as an individual.