How To Prepare Students For The Future

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Our world is changing but is our education system connecting teachers to students?Centuries ago cars, devices, clothes, etc have changed! I ask myself this all the time, why hasn't our schools? Are we preparing students for the future or the past? Since the 1850’s we still sit in chairs and raise our hands in school, why? If we change now, our students would gain a better understanding, we can connect teachers to students, and we can prepare students for the future.

All students are different in the ways they learn. No matter if they're sisters, brothers, or even twins. No person has the same brain. Proven by scientists all over the world. Even though students in their classroom are different from each other, they get taught the exact same things with the exact techniques. The problem with that is maybe only 80% absorb all the information. For example, 65% of population are visual learners, 25% are auditory learners, and 5% are technical learners. Depending don the teacher only 80% or less take in all the information being taught. I believe we should mix up the techniques or separate students into groups that can understand what the teacher is teaching. For example, putting 20 visual learners with a teacher who will teach visually. Another example is, if a doctor prescribed the same medicine to a group of kids only some of the medicine would affect kids, but the other half would be tragic they'd still be sick, not all medicine

One teacher stands in front of average 30 kids. Who share different strengths different weaknesses and different personalities. They're different, that means they're not going to learn the same. So are we preparing students for past or future?
Singapore’s school days start at 7:50 AM and end at 1:15. Singapore is the smartest country in the world so far. They also start college around the 11th grade. What makes us different than