In "The Lost Tools of Learning", Dorothy Sayers says that mankind has lost the ability to learn; I couldn't agree more with her. For generations, we have been the product of people who have been, in a way, "force fed"information. This has been our way of so called "learning" to gain knowledge. The way we as children are being taught is at a very mature level, but we are more concerned with other things at such a young age. If we were taught to think for ourselves, we would probably be more successful in the ways of life.
By having a syllabus that is based on the ways of Middle Ages education, it would be very beneficial to our youth because they emphasized on grammar, sentence structure, and dialect. These are crucial things to have in an education because these things allow us to defend ourselves, help us analyze problems and use our knowledge in logic. With a proper education, we can all benefit from it in the long run. The thing is we need to be taught how to think for ourselves instead of just having someone think for us.
Religion is a very controversial subject to be incorporated in our modern day education. Back then, it helped decide discipline and what was right from wrong. Now, most educators don't even mention the word in school systems. To be educated without it is very harmful to the development of one's ethics. If people could in-force the teaching of religion in schools, this could be a massive change in the way we view our school systems. Also this could change the way children are being taught, instead of having someone tell us what to think, we can finally think for ourselves; something that hasn't been taught in centuries. If man doesn't start think for themselves, we might as well be wasting our time in everything we do because that is not the way to be successful.
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