”Schools are killing curiosity ; why we need to stop telling children to shut up and learn” by Wendy Berliner’s main idea is that schools are taking away learning opportunities for children by shutting down their curiosity. Throughout the passage the author uses many examples and sources to back up her theory. The author goes into detail and explains that curious children perform best and we shouldn’t stop children from being curious. The author made sure that anything she said backed onto her central idea meaning that the author continued to give us reasoning and sources that would lead back to her idea. For example “when teachers teach young children not to ask questions, it’s not surprising that high-performing students studied by American researchers in 2013 were found to be less curious because they saw curiosity as a risk to results”. This sentence occurs in the middle of the passage meaning the author continued with the same idea of killing curiosity isn’t the best for children. Throughout the passage the author explains to us how curiosity can affect children’s learning and why it’s important. She also gives examples of children being curious and getting shut down. She tells us a lot about other schools and what a curious child looks like.
