Summary Practice- Matthew Gonzalez

Part 1: MLA Citation

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

Part 2: Summary

In the passage “Schools Are Killing Curiosity” In this Op Ed by Wendy Berliner she tells that schools are killing young children’s curiosity. In this article she goes into detail about the school system and the failure to allow the kids to be creative and have curiosity. In the article they talk that research done

In the passage “Schools Are Killing Curiosity” In this Op Ed by Wendy Berliner she tells that schools are killing young children’s curiosity. In this article she goes into detail about the school system and the failure to allow the kids to be creative and have curiosity. In the article they talk about some research from the University of Michigan CS Mott Children’s Hospital and the Center for Human Growth and Development. And that they investigated curiosity in 6,200 children as part of a newer study. Some of the results that they found was that curious children actually do better in academics. Which is weird that it also mentions that as children get older they start to ask less and less questions. The author gives an example that teachers are focusing more on the behavior and attention rather than the curiosity that the children have. We see that even the teachers shut down questions later on. “In one lesson she observed, a ninth grader raised her hand to ask if there were any places in the world where no one made art. The teacher stopped her mid-sentence with, “Zoe, no questions now, please; it’s time for learning.” Ultimately, this paper highlights the importance of a reshaping in how we see schooling, one that puts an emphasis on curiosity and pushes children to be become more creative and curious kids