Children should be taught how to think, not what

Children is our future. And our future most of their time in the schools, which, let's be honest, is very far from ideal. Will Stanton, a well-known activist, wondered how to change the existing system of education, so that children are no longer passive listeners and become a true explorer ...

Today, the education system largely inspires children to ideas rather than teaching them. In fact, this has happened before, with over a long enough time. Teachers convince young minds to accept the authority as truth, rather than truth as the authority. Teachers tell students instead talk with them.

Teachers become translators of information. They just mindlessly repeat what had once learned from their teachers, and do not process information, including that which has passed by unnoticed by the critics. Children are not the owners of their own learning. Instead, their minds are used for storage of containers.

Factory education model with emphasis on academic and economic elitism working stream produces obedient to system promotes alignment of each step along the way.

We are not seen as a complex, creative, inquisitive personalities, instead - as a part of one big machine.

The education system filters out the research part of our nature, the purpose - to prevent the opposition to the system. The system does not need thinkers. She did not want people who are asking questions. She needs people who are easily manipulated and controlled in such a way that all power was concentrated in the hands of the elite.

There are those who believe that critical thinking can not be taught in school. Socrates, if he were alive, most likely, would have laughed contemptuously when he heard such a statement. The same Socrates, who said: "I can not teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

If we want to solve the problem of education in the school system, we will have to learn to ask questions, and do not offer ready-made answers.

True knowledge can only be obtained in the course of the study. Children should be encouraged to seek answers on their own. As for teachers, they need to provide children with the tools and resources they need to study subjects and making their own discoveries. A well-formulated question can inspire more than the countless number of prepared answers. In every aspect of our educational research it is important to establish an open dialogue with the students, to encourage healthy debate and allow children to make their own conclusions.

The importance of the teaching of philosophy in schools is underestimated. In a world where most people work, if running on a wheel with blinders on the eyes, we must occasionally overestimate their perspective and look at the whole picture.

Philosophy makes us think, makes asking makes behold. Without these skills, humanity will continue to operate on autopilot, allowing those in power to suppress, oppress and enslave us in all respects.

We must learn to think anew.