When it comes to education, people always have different opinions. When I was young, I needed to memorize a lot of things, such as the year of a historical event, or the meaning of a special phrase in an article. Recently I read an article talking about recent technologies. Technology has advanced a lot in the past few decades, and it changed so fast. One thing the article mentioned is google. It's just a company's name, but it has influenced people's daily life so much. The word, google, even became a verb in the dictionary. Right now we google online when we get questions. As a researcher, I have used google as a way to get all the information I want.
One thing the article reminded me is that today the education in Taiwan is still very traditional. Students memorize a lot of things in textbooks. However, I don't think it a good way anymore. Students should change their way to let themselves get educated. Or I should say that the teachers should change their way to educate our children. But, I think that no teacher is going to take a risk to do that since the whole society have not prepared themselves for the new education method. The way I think is that students shouldn't spend a lot of time memorizing a lot of useless things. Maybe they are not so useless, but a lot of things I have learned before have never been used for a long time. I think our children should develop their ability to find the answers they want through new technologies, such as google. I know that our teachers can not make this decision to force them under risks. But our government can do that. It's really the time to change the way we used to use. Don't the government see the world has changed a lot.
Today Taiwan is not the same as before. The amount of our new born children has decreased a lot for years. Besides the thriving China and other emerging market countries have put us under competition. Thus, we shouldn't follow the way we used for a labor intensive society. We need to change our educational method in order to strengthen the abilities of our next generation. By the way, I am not saying the ability to memorize knowledge is not important. Also, I don't mean that students shouldn't memorize anything. Instead, I think they should memorize some basic knowledge for their studying.
One thing the article reminded me is that today the education in Taiwan is still very traditional. Students memorize a lot of things in textbooks. However, I don't think it a good way anymore. Students should change their way to let themselves get educated. Or I should say that the teachers should change their way to educate our children. But, I think that no teacher is going to take a risk to do that since the whole society have not prepared themselves for the new education method. The way I think is that students shouldn't spend a lot of time memorizing a lot of useless things. Maybe they are not so useless, but a lot of things I have learned before have never been used for a long time. I think our children should develop their ability to find the answers they want through new technologies, such as google. I know that our teachers can not make this decision to force them under risks. But our government can do that. It's really the time to change the way we used to use. Don't the government see the world has changed a lot.
Today Taiwan is not the same as before. The amount of our new born children has decreased a lot for years. Besides the thriving China and other emerging market countries have put us under competition. Thus, we shouldn't follow the way we used for a labor intensive society. We need to change our educational method in order to strengthen the abilities of our next generation. By the way, I am not saying the ability to memorize knowledge is not important. Also, I don't mean that students shouldn't memorize anything. Instead, I think they should memorize some basic knowledge for their studying.
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