| A typical high school requires that each student take a | | | | extremely good at receiving average grades. The |
| number of english, science, history, math, and language | | | | process of turning this pile of bricks into a thriving |
| classes in order to graduate. There are usually far | | | | society of intellectuals and thinkers is a daunting task at |
| fewer, if any, art and creative pursuit requirements. | | | | best, but it is possible. Students must learn to enjoy |
| Unfortunately, the school system is stuck in the past. | | | | discovery and creation and this development begins |
| While it is important to learn from the past in order to | | | | with schools. |
| improve the future, the primary function of a school is | | | | Instead of heightening tensions provided by grades and |
| to prepare a student for the future. If a school does | | | | forcing students to conform to a certain student |
| not sufficiently prepare students for the tough reality | | | | template, encourage students to branch out. If in |
| that they will be hit with the moment they grasp their | | | | addition to requiring class credits in the core subjects, |
| diploma, then what is the school worth? Presently, the | | | | school systems required at least one creative class or |
| majority of schools are obsessed with grading their | | | | activity a year for students, the student body as a |
| students in any possible activity and trying to rank | | | | whole would improve slightly. |
| them in every possible category. | | | | Now, this change would be far from the final goal, but |
| This system of ranking and false achievement does | | | | this would be an enormous step in the right direction. |
| not prepare a student for the future. Actually, it hurts | | | | Just imagine if, instead of coming home and doing four |
| their future because it reduces students’ creativity | | | | hours of homework, students came home and worked |
| and ingenuity, which will be the most important | | | | on solving a difficult math problem, went outside and |
| characteristics for the future generation of adults and | | | | painted a painting of their back yard, and wrote a |
| leaders to possess. | | | | paper explaining the relationship between life and |
| The question is not whether to change the current | | | | death. Imagine if three students got together and |
| school system, but instead it is how and when to | | | | designed and constructed a windmill together that |
| change it. | | | | would create enough electricity to power their science |
| Our current youth are a generation of | | | | classroom. Imagine, if students could think. |
| screen-obsessed, creatively blind students who are | | | | |