STUDYING

1. What are some ways schools encourage or discourage a person's desire to learn? What makes some objects in school exciting and stimulating and others boring.

I’m not going to lie, there are many other activities I would rather be doing than going to school five days a week. I could be playing volleyball, traveling the world, spending time with my family, hanging out with my friends, and doing many other fun things besides going to school, but this defeats the purpose of the question. What are some ways schools encourage or discourage a person’s desire to learn?
In my opinion children and teens think school is boring because it is school. There is nothing more to it, kids tend to be antsy and always want to be doing other things besides school. The way I look at schools encouraging or discouraging a person’s desire to learn is the little phrase, “yin and yang”; along with the good comes the bad.
Schools try to give children the option of what classes they want to take. These classes are called electives. The teachers want the kids to be excited about coming to school and they figure by giving kids the freedom and letting them chose what classes they want to take, it would hopefully make learning more fun and enjoyable for both the student and the teacher. This is the “yin” part to this question.
To the children the “required classes and the “yang.” I attend University High School and I am a sophomore. The classes that are required for all sophomores at UHS to take are math, a world language, chemistry, Ancient Greece, and great books. With these classes, teachers are not trying to make their students the world’s smartest person; they are trying to expose the students to real life. As society changes, so will some of the classes. These classes are not about fun; they are classes that teach you what you need to know for later on in life. After all, who knows, you might not like chemistry now, but mid-way through the semester, you might want to be a chemist and become the next Niels Bohr.
The next question is what makes some objects in school exciting and stimulating and others boring? There are many different ways to look at this question. Every child has different way of learning. When a child is taught in the way something makes sense to them, learning is fun. It is not fun because they were told it was, it is fun because it everything makes sense. Another way to look at this is why do students have fun when they are learning? When I have fun while learning it is because of the teacher. This means that they don’t sit in front of the class lecturing you in a monotone voice, they are outgoing, vivacious, and fun.
Going to school and studying for classes is not the most fun thing to do, but when you have the right teacher, things seem to fall into place.