it seems that the only things that interest anyone living in a non-communist country are media, mainly advertisement. It is the reason why we choose what to do when we do it. advertisement tells you to buy this, go to this, see this, listen to that, watch this, don't do that! a band, product, ANYTHING can become successful with the strategy of advertising (this is ALMOST a guarantee)
so, tying this into our school systems, students are forced to learn material that leadership assumes they should already have an interest for. We assume that the product of math had already been sold to the students to be something they'd want to do.
In order to successfully catch the attention of the majority of the students in any given subject: sell it!. how many times have you heard, "i took this professor one semester and he made me love (insert subject here), now i'm majoring in it!" I've not only heard that from people, but it happened to me.
I just got this awesome job at CSULB where i'm an SI leader. i attend a class with 25 students, then i take them for another hour and a half and teach them how to learn the things they
are learning.. providing them with the skills/knowledge needed to understand the material. fantastic idea!
Not enough students figure out how to already love what you're doing. no motivation! why?? when has it EVER been cool to go to school? I mean really, going to school to be a chemical engineer, or a historian.. BORING..
why? because it's not advertised enough. nobody thinks it's cool because nobody says its cool YET... now i'm not saying to go around putting up advertisements for algebra or english. i'm saying that the root of the problem lies in the teachers. the teachers who are extremely excited about the subject they're teaching usually gets more of a response out of the students. why? because they were SELLING their products. unless the teacher hates their life and is in it for the money, i'm sure most of them have a strong passion for teaching, and as they should! these are the next generation in their hands!
but these teachers need to learn how to sell it. if you live in a capitalist society, you need to base the success of your product on how well it is sold. in order to sell your product, you need that backing of media.
teachers need to be monitored on their techniques on teaching the subject. they need to make sure they're presentation of the given subject is keeping the students' attention.
the rest of the students' life is surrounded by advertisement from the music they listen to, the books they read, the movies they watch, the tv shows they watch, the street they walk on with advertisements for the newest phone, the hottest bar, the sale at the shoe store.
advertisements for clothes, make-up, hairspray...
wait, think about something that ISN'T advertised that still get some sort of success... sidenote: word-of-mouth is still a form of advertising.
i'm still thinking and i cant think of one.
so you get all these kids that are constantly choosing what product they want or dont want, then you bring them into a school setting with mind-numbing boringness on numbers that dont apply to you, words you'll never use, dead guys who you dont care about (this is history, by the way), chemicals you'd be too scared to use anyway. all of these things you DONT want to buy, but you're forced to. that's not the american way! we always, constantly choose what we want or do not want to purchase.
don't give up, there's hope... change the teachers OR change their behavior toward the kids.
as a server at a restaurant, i have been TAUGHT how to sell our products. those who can successfully sell the food keeps their job. the others are not helping the success of the business.
relating this to teachers, teachers need to learn how to be a seller. they need to take their product (education) and sell the shit out of it. if not, nobody's going to care about it
i've had plenty of professors who changed my view of the world just by showing me how passionate he/she was about a subject. then i've had classes i thought i was going to enjoy, and the professor screws it up completely for me.
there is a huge problem there!! that should not be the case... throw out the decaying technique of educating the youth, and replace it with a whole new perception of teaching.
ok tbc (to be continued... it'll catch on)
i gotta do something with my life here!
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