Sep 24, 2011 2:33:18 PM cite

School dont teach us from our own opinions because the system has not been revolutionized change re-orged since the Industrial revolution were children were put into schools to prepare for going to work in the factories for the government, to use our opinions would create para-dime shift and move the bases of power away from those in control to the individual, It has been said by Bandier defined Self-efficacy as “the exercise of human agency through people’s beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their actions” (Preface) the system of our economy doesn't want our opinions it will change the desied effects and we would create new way for learning and act on solving poverty, war and lack of access to resources, The new colonialism is DEBT.

by karicrl

Sep 13, 2011 6:13:45 PM cite

Perhaps this responsibility, like so many others, falls to the parents who have brought children in to the world. Unfortunately, so many parents relinquish their responsibilities to schools, then wonder what happened to their kids.

by MtnGirl

Jul 27, 2011 9:56:19 PM cite

education first. the natural curiosity of your mind will lead you in all sorts of directions. but if your brain lacks good processing skills to organize, assimilate and question what you see what you learn then how can opinions have weight. look at the basic education. Math, Science, Literature (ie, reading and following lines of logic via the written word) without the skills we attain from course work can our uneducated opinions have any merit? We know everyone has opinions and everyone has a process of coming by said opinion but i don't think we can teach the process simply by having educators question our answers. We need to have the desire to question our beliefs. and one of the few things that can inspire us to do so (other then a life changing event) is a solid education. now lets say you do have a life changing event that forces you on your ass and makes you question everything around you, rattles your belief structure loose. so you sit and you think and you think and you find new ways of living, new ways to exist based on new beliefs and opinions, yet you lack the education to form good questions, to have reasoning skills to shape and mold your newly formed opinions. Did anything really change?

by rastavector

Jul 4, 2011 6:50:35 PM cite

The discipline "religion" should teach the major religions in the world and its cultural value. Most schools in my country (Brazil) teach according to the values of the Catholic Church, because it is prevalent here. There is no absolute truth, so should not teach only one religion. Schools should put first tolerance and respect the diversity.

by aline4away

Jun 13, 2011 5:01:18 PM cite

At my school they want us to do in our german lessons ( I'm from Germany ) . They ask things like : What do you think about wearing a school uniform ?... Then we learn to formulate our opnion , write them down and we get a mark for our text but no one really realizes what we were saying. ... They teach us to form our own opinion but they also often show us that they don't want to hear them .

by Lis

May 31, 2011 7:05:43 PM cite

I was lucky; my high school actually did teach me to formulate my own opinions. For example, my history teacher refused to give us answers; instead, he would probe us with endless questions until we came up with something on our own. Ditto for English and philosophy. We were given the facts, but from many perspectives so that we could first assess the knowledge that was already out there, then told to evaluate, taking all these views into consideration. I think at this point, some schools are changing by moving past "these are the facts; memorize them" to "these are the facts; what do they mean?"

by jade.d

Mar 27, 2011 8:23:35 PM cite

I remember asking the same question my senior year of high school. My college level history course had become nothing more than a series of bullet points, and tests were pure fact memorization evaluations. This is in stark contrast to my 8th grade social studies course; where I was lucky enough to have a passionate teacher who didn't care about giving us every fact about every battle that occured within World War II, but instead, was asking us deep ethical questions of the war, and the holocaust... To this day, I still believe that the school system has it wrong, and that instead of providing material that can easily test academic rigor; that they should be challenging students to question the world around them, and instead of having 'history' courses, we should be providing multi-disciplinary courses that cover history, contemporary issues, and philosophical implications. However, after seeing the life directions that the majority of my high school peers have taken, ones of basic vocation, I can now at least see why they taught the things they did. It's because all levels of schooling up to high school are not meant to be places to challenge the world, but an institution that is suppose to make students 'functional' enough to be able to sustain a living of some sort in the real world. This definition of functional has been provided by the education boards; that the subjects that have been taught for centuries, are what the modern child needs to learn. All we can do, is hope that those students really want to form opinions, can hold out long enough to get to college.

by Vanse571

Mar 15, 2011 8:42:32 PM cite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&feature=related

by andreicatalin

Dec 17, 2010 4:40:31 PM cite

is it because they hold no academic significance? I have the opinion that this is a question that schools should be naturally concerned with before implementing their teaching in their schools

by MatthewSenopole