"Education is suffering from narration sickness."
I think this quote is very true in the classroom environment because every teacher lectures the class about a topic. In every subject the teacher has a monologue on the topic of the day leaving very little discussion or argument for the students, it gets banal. It's as if there isn't any other way to teach a class because in all grades a lecture is the main form of education. Only when you begin to take college courses the teacher changes the traditional monologue to independent studies.
"The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means."
When teachers constantly drill information into a students mind, the student only memorizes the information. They don't really put the information into their longterm memory because they just have to memorize it till the test or quiz passes. After the test the student forgets the information because it was only in their short term memory because they didn't actually learn and comprehend the subject to put it in their long term. This happens with any subject the student doesn't put time in to study.
"The teacher chooses the program content, and the student (who were not consulted) adapt to it;"
The student never gets to decide what books they would like to read or what topics they'd like to learn in a class. The teacher or now government decides for the student what they have to learn. I believe the student should have the freedom of deciding what topics and subjects they want to learn that year, because when you're learning about something you're interested in it isn't boring. When a subject catches your interest and attention the information goes into your long term and will be with you for the rest of your life. If students were able to choose their subjects, the failing rate would decrease and the graduation rate would increase.
"Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning."
Life is not just about communication, their is so much more to life than that. Their's art, sports, hobbies, and much more that can fulfill you and you can become passionate about. Communication is necessary for interacting with society but communication doesn't hold life meaning. Something that you're passionate about that makes you want to wake up every morning is what holds meaning in life. Human life can hold meaning with out communication because before languages and art people hunted and gathered and lived for other reasons.
"He loves control, and in the act of controlling he kills life"
Life is something that no one can control, fate is a part of life that humans try to interfere with to make things go their way. But no matter what humans cannot predict or control what life has to offer next. If you try to control life, you are killing your own life. It's not free, it's not unpredictable, it's not natural, it's control and humanized. Nothing about trying to fully controlling life is natural you're trying to rewrite your destiny and redirect fate which can hurt you in the end.
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