I completely agree with Baldwin’s statement because I believe there is always more to learn and he also advocates for free thinking. He believes that people especially students should be able to question every topic they are presented with in school and in the outside world. When Baldwin says “the world is larger” I think he means there is a lot more to learn and observe about the world around us than we are taught in school. He is trying to each people to question everything they learn and observe. He wants people to not conform to anyone’s ideas and to think to themselves.
Personally I feel that The Guardian article is correct, our modern day early education system mainly focuses on achieving high scores on year end tests and that diminishes a child’s curiosity. It prevents children from asking questions that they are interested in because their teachers will most likely say that their question does not pertain to the topic that the teacher is forced to teach. For me I feel that the education system did kill my curiosity because I never felt like asking my teachers questions because I felt I would be ridiculed for asking a question that did not relate to the topic and wasting time. Asking questions should be encouraged and being curious should not be shut down by our education system.
The digital world however still allows students to be curious because any question ,answer ,idea, and more are available just a few clicks away. With technology students are able to form and express their own ideas even if they don’t conform to what they were taught in school. We should start researching questions rather than answers so we can think for ourselves and form our own ideas and beliefs rather than copying someone else answers and ideas.
I completely agree with your second paragraph. As a high school graduate, all we cared about was the grades and not really understanding the topic. This is because we are forced to annotate not for ourselves, but for the school system, and in our case the DOE. At the end, as long as we got the grade we want we don’t care. I’ve heard sooo many teenagers be happy with a grade of 75 and say “I don’t care, as long as I pass.” and I just say wow. As long as people pass, they don’t care, which kills curiosity.
I completely agree with your second paragraph. As a high school graduate, all we cared about was the grades and not really understanding the topic. This is because we are forced to annotate not for ourselves, but for the school system, and in our case the DOE. At the end, as long as we got the grade we want we don’t care. I’ve heard sooo many teenagers be happy with a grade of 75 and say “I don’t care, as long as I pass.” and I just say wow. As long as people pass, they don’t care, which kills curiosity.
I like the idea you stated in your second paragraph because, back in high school all we cared about was receiving a passing grade and studying at night to pass a test we had the next day. It wasn’t always about learning something it always delt with the fact that we all wanted to pass the class and graduate on time. And I can relate with you not wanting to ask questions in class because I had this feeling in me that if I ask is either what I said would be seen wrongly or it wouldn’t made sense or it wouldn’t have nothing to deal with the topic we were talking about.