New Book

In class now we're starting to read this book called, One Size does not Fit All. Right now we have to answer some questions based off the introduction and the preface. The reason he wrote the book was because he doesn't like the current school system. He said how the school he went to zapped his creativity out of him. He was a great student in the school but he figured there were better schools, outside of New York where he lived. When he was 15 he went to India and to do research because he "always believed that the Indian school system was far superior to America's system, because students were tested more, received more homework, and were in school many more days than American students."

He went there to interview the students and after going over what he found he put that thought of the Indian system being better in his back pocket so to speak. He talked about how the world is changing and a lot of labor and service jobs could eventually be eliminated, for many reasons, whether it gets programmed in a computer or there's no need for that particular worker, when the boss can tell someone else what to do for a less amount of money. He said how since day one we're taught how to follow directions and not to think for ourselves. He talked about how the world has changed but school hasn't.  Regarding the way the work world works he said "All the rules are gone. We have failed to convey the severity of the situation to our children. We have lied directly to their faces." He out right said "School is not working."That since the work industry is demanding more why shouldn't we teach it?  He said that students don't have a voice and he wants this book to be the start of the revolution. That's his reason behind writing this book, to show the world schooling through the eyes of a student. He wants to speak for those without a voice, so hopefully at some point the system can change.

In my personal opinion even though I haven't read the full book I think its good. I think it has a good message to convey. Sometimes as humans we are scared to face the truth so we turn the other way. Instead of making the needed changes we sweep the dirt under the rug. He's right, school isn't working, if traditional schooling was so good there wouldn't be so many people with a high school education, or a college education without jobs. The fact is when you're mainly taught facts and forced to memorized them only to later be tested by it, how does that measure intelligence? It doesn't, it shows how much you can memorize. I can't wait to read the rest of this book, I'm very intrigued by it and want to see what further details it goes into.