Summary Practice- Sindy J.

Part 1 MLA Citation: 

Berliner, Wendy. “‘Schools Are Killing Curiosity’: Why We Need to Stop Telling Children to Shut up and Learn.” The Guardian, 28 Jan. 2020. The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/28/schools-killing-curiosity-learn.

Part 2 Summary:

The article “‘Schools Are Killing Curiosity’: Why We Need to Stop Telling Children to Shut up and Learn”, by Wendy Berliner tells us that the key for kids to do better academically is for teachers to stop limiting the kids curiosity. Wendy Berliner mentions how kids learn from teachers to not ask questions when they want too. According to the researchers from the University of Michigan CS Mott Children’s Hospital and the Center for Human Growth the younger children who are curious and ask question did better academically than the ones who don’t. Teachers are focusing more on their performances and behavior, so they tend to discourage the kids from asking a lot of questions during class. As the kids got older, they became less curious and wouldn’t ask questions for the whole class period because teachers tend to tell them to stop. Wendy Berliner concludes that curiosity shouldn’t be seen as a negative thing, instead teachers should encourage and help increase it as it has proven to show that kids do better academically if they are more curious.