Learning should be fun

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I think that the way that schools present information and try to force feed information into the kids with out making it remotly fun or interesting and while bench marking every one by tests so the people who do better in the tests are placed above others.

In school you learn to obey. Not to question. This is what happens don't disagree don't try to understand just memorise it.

I think in the future if i ever have kids i would like to encourage other types of learning out school. Like for example let them play with batterys and motors and wires. I think that kind of stuff is a really fun way to learn about electricity. Also try and tell them bed time storys that are actual real history and make it in a fun and interactive way. Unlike the kind of teaching style you see currently where a leacturer drones out in a monotonos speach and every one is expected to stay focused.

I like the ideas of playing with the kids to count and play games relating to math and other things. Learning should be fun. Ever wonder why kids learn faster? because every things a game to them (execpt the crazy style of schooling we have). naturally you learn more about some thing when you find it interesting. And learning about some thing when some one is monologuing and you don't get to play is definately not a help.

So any one else trying to teach there kids to actually play with real stuff to learn how it works and learn about the world so they are not as ignorant as your average bear

*some* teachers actually teach this way...most unfortunately do not....a shame isn't it ?
i definitely would've learned a great deal more in school if activities had been hands on

I think that approach would work well for a lot of people. For me, it wouldn't have worked very well. I was physically clumsy for everything except writing. If I were doing an experiment, I would be the one writing up the results.