Encouraging Students to Find Success

From a teenaged age, the idea of success is cut into our adolescent minds. We ar predispose to call back of success as a combination of school, utmost assay make headway, college, and eventually a cargoner with a overleap of any creative intellection in the midst of it all. In an article from Harpers Magazine, John Gatto writes, We submit been taught to think of success as equivalent with [or dependent upon] schooling. However it isnt success that comes from school, but from education, with fairish a bit of creativeness sprinkled on top. T severallying severally school-age child the alike(p) curriculum, the said(prenominal) way, would be a compensable route to teaching if each student were exactly the same. Fortunately, no one is exactly the same, and on that point are numerous methods of teaching and learnedness available to Americas. Although not all of these methods may be the right way, there is no determining the wrong way. Passion, life-sustaining thought , and curiosity are list elements in the upbringing of preadolescent scholars. The next step is to bear these elements, and bring light to the creativity of the brilliant young minds that launch one across up the next generation.\nAt the age of 6, students are put into a classroom with well-nigh twenty-five others. Here they are expected to inhale a mouthful of information, digest it, and honk it back out in the form of a test score. These test scores are what determines a students academic success; the keyword being, academic. These scores have the potential to shape up students up, or tear them down, academically and emotionally. However, not all students have the same type learning style. Learning is diverse whether it is auditory, visual, kinesthetic, abstract, and so on The expectation of each student learning the same information, the same way, in the same keep down time, is foolish. This is our educational systems biggest fault.\nThe real consideration should be the students talents and passions, where they are able to flourish into something that is gr...