ON STUDYING PRE BLOG

1.) What are some ways that school encourages or discourages a person's desire to learn? What makes some objects in school exciting and stimulating and others boring?

Everyone is different when it comes to his/her learning style and what they are interested in learning. Ways that schools encourages a person’s desire to learn is teaching them new subjects and ways to gain knowledge. They teach subjects like mathematics, language and literature, art, and other topics that they view fit to teach a child. For a lack of better words, they “put down the foundation of learning,” so to speak. Now, when I say they, I mean teaching up until college.
They teach the basics of learning habits on basic concepts and subjects, but also stifle a person’s desire to learn by only teaching them these concepts. They really don’t allow much leeway in letting a “student*” research and learn what he/she wants to learn. They have a very basic, cookie cutter system that they force the student to follow. This can discourage a person’s desire to learn the specific things that he/she wishes to learn and will use. That being said, I think that it is important to learn the basics, but not to the extent where you have to learn everything by this system. Again, different people have different learning styles and systems, and the basic system that the schools teach them can impeach their creative way of learning and stifle their learning process.
School can make subjects interesting to learn mostly by having a good “teacher**.” All students can probably agree this because it is the teacher who informs you and “teaches” you what is required. If the teacher is able to teach you something in a way that you find enjoyable and interesting, then it will make it easier for you to learn the subject is. Even subjects that might seem boring, a good teacher can take any “bad” subject and make it interesting for the student.
What also help to make objects in school interesting are the student’s own personal interests. Again, each person is unique with his or her personal “objectives” that they want to achieve and topics they want to learn. When a student is engaged in a topic that seems interesting or intriguing to them, they tend to enjoy the class more and most likely do better academically in said class. One student likes one subject, another students prefers another subject. Most likely the subject will be something that the student thinks will help them later on in their near to mid future. Also, this doesn’t have to be a academic idea or class, it can be aspects like people and environments. A student will most likely feel more “at home” in his or her school if they set a nice and friendly environment, or he/she has friends there to talk to and be with.
Aspects that make school duller are the same as what can make them interesting. Teachers can make classes interesting, but can also teach in a way that can be so uninteresting, that the student hates going to said class because they are not engaged and being taught in the way they can learn “properly.” Student’s interests can also create whether or not some aspects seem boring. If a student is not interested at all in the subject she/he is learning or just doesn’t think that the topic relates to them at all, they won’t participate. This subject is seen in their eyes as boring and just busy work that they are doing to proceed through school.
I don’t really know how we (everyone) as a whole can help school become less boring and catch their interest. If we do find a way, it will take a generation to put it into action because it took several generations to create the system we have now.

*I use Student very loosely, and please note that all the other references to student should be written as: “student”
**All other teacher references should be written as: “teacher”