“Claire

School learning.

I think a learning environment doesn’t depend on wether your equipment, classroom, school, teachers is the best/most expensive. I think it depends on how you learn the best. I reckon I learn better when I experience it myself. Looking at textbooks, reading things out loud in class doesn’t make me want to learn it more. You need to have some sort of passion to what you are learning, even if it’s maths. Like, in maths, instead of just solving equations etc. why not use it in everyday life? Try and teach it in a way where we would actually use it. I always hear the question: “why are we learning this? What is this meant to help us with?” It’s true. I don’t know why we have to learn it, does the teacher either?
Maybe it’s just me and people learn better by just learning it and not getting complicated by why they need it and such.
Example:
My VSS teacher (VSS is sensational sixties, a history class) is always telling us the reason why he teaches us history. “To never repeat the mistakes that were made” and I believe this makes me interested and want to learn what mistakes were made, what things saved the world, why/how we are here today.

Why does everyone find school boring? Maybe it’s because it’s how they learn it that’s boring. If we made learning more fun, maybe more kids will be coming to school and finishing it all the way through.

Most kids take school for granted, probably because they don’t see why they need the education. 

Claire.