PLN #12

I read "You Know this is True" by Will Richardson, this article talks how students just memorize the material and completely forget it after their final test. There is no way to stop this process because students find the information irrelevant to new material they are current or going to learn. This maters to me because this is exactly what I do and probably every student does it even, straight "A" students and teachers just ignore that fact, they have never try to fix or overcome this problem. Do you realize that when a teacher ask us about information from last year we either take a long time to recall it or you don’t know the answer. Towards the bottom of the article is a comment that really grabs my attention," When did society decide that going to college was the only successful outcome of high school"(wmchamberlain 8-10-2010)? This comment really struck me; everyone says you need a college degree to be successful and to make a defiant amount of money in life. Sadly this is true because American society revolves around education; it changes your life for better or worse. "You Know this is True" matters to education because I would highly doubt that I will remember every piece of information I get in school, sometimes our brain just throws out the old and welcomes the new. This also happens with memories to, how many of you remember anything from kindergarten? In other words the more we learn the dumber we get. This matters to world because every world power is centered around education, but the poor countries are centered around hard work and sweat. Everyone is just creating a increasingly bigger social class difference between Countries not people. Maybe this is why America is falling back in Math and Science against other countries.