One can instantly think of many problems and bad things about education - in fact, anyone who is reading this now will most likely have been through an education system of some kind, and I'm sure we all have at least a few negative memories of schooling and I'm sure we all have problems with the way that things were done. All of the problems that you can think of, I'm also sure, are important, but none of them are as important as this:
When we are young, we have curiosity about things. It is impossible not to be curious. We want to touch everything, taste everything, smell everything and hear all of the noises anything can make. It doesn't matter what country you live in, or what language you speak - everyone is born curious.
The problem with the Education System is that students have so much of this curiosity taken away from them. Take England as an example. The students are usually very happy in the "Nursery" (pre-school) and "Primary School" stages, but when they reach "Secondary Education" (high school), the children start having to prepare for their General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams.
The pupils will stay up all night, cramming their brains with lots of useless facts and figures and with concepts that were never explained well enough to them for them to truly appreciate how it works, or what it does or what it means in the real world. This means that students often go through a transition phase, where they go from enjoying many subjects and learning about them, to not really enjoying the subjects much anymore. The main problem is not that they don't enjoy the subjects (this is still, of course, very important), but that they loose all willingness to want to learn new things in these realms, because all learning means to them is more revising late at night for tests - something nobody wants. Because they have lost this willingness to learn, they have lost their curiosity about subjects - in fact, they end up not wanting to be curious.
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