A lesson on teaching

It is undeniable the reality that students walk about schools with grim annoyance and distaste towards the education they receive. They stroll about with backpacks heavy with textbooks burdening their shoulders and moans of dissatisfaction when asked to pull out certain papers. Of course, the issue becomes even more prevalent when the uninterested student outnumbers the interested one by a long shot. Actually, the numbers aren't even close. It is quite a rarity to find a student who genuinely loves their education and is fond of the teaching they receive.

I think it is agreed upon that education is one of the most critical endowments a person will acquire, it is given during a person's most vulnerable and malleable times- their childhood. It is often these first few years that determine the remainder of that person's life. 

Now of course, with education being in the state it is, it will be hard to make any changes at all and to request change is obviously implausible and absurd. It will be both a burden to the teachers and cost the students a great deal of pain to work towards a better educational format. Some may even argue that the pain and boredom students experience in school will better their character- they will learn the important lessons of resilience and patience. 

So perhaps the effort required for teachers to teach is far beyond reach. The truth is a teacher can only do so much, especially with pays as low as they are today, a teacher can't be expected to do much more than read from a textbook. 

As a result, "this prodigious number of children"(Swift) who despise school truly just lack the discipline that was prevalent in previous generations. It certainly cannot be the educational department's fault that these students can't even stand a few hours in a classroom when previous generations had laborious hours doing much harder work in the fields. 

I suggest that we right now are in a not so happy medium. We are in a state where teacher's are not giving enough attention to completely nurture every child, since teachers only have such limited time, and also giving enough so that student's do not learn their independence. I might even propose that the solution is obvious- teacher's should back off and allow students to learn for themselves. Why should a teacher read off a textbook while a student can read it himself, and learn the ability to read while he's at it. A teacher does his best job when he does not teach at all. After all, humans are very capable of learning entirely without the guidance of others. This might heal the damage that such years of care has caused upon our youthful self-reliance and interest in education.