The first chapter had a lot of interesting history and more modern ideas on how to better education in schools. The author talks about how even the simplest question from a young kid can have a very complicated. Even though the answers are complicated that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t tell them or encourage them to find the answer for themselves. The author then went on to talk about how we are teaching children to take tests not how to learn. He talked about how schools are to cautious on how and what we teach and that it is not surprising that school is boring to kids. The book says we need to get kids excited about learning and let them know why we teach them what we do and how it relates to the real world.
Five points that affect me.
1. Help kids relate what they learn in class to how they will use it in real life.
2. Help Kids understand Why they are leaning the things they learn.
3. Praise achievements.
4. Don’t label students, and treat them all on the same intellectual level.
5. Make sure students know how to use the available resources, and encourage the use of them not only for school but also to look into their own personal questions.
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