What is Worth Learning?
"Real learning is necessary." This was a phrase in my blackout poem that has stuck with me. What is real learning? Is it memorizing fast facts or being able to spell a difficult word without a stutter or even meeting required word counts on papers? To put it simply, that cannot be it. There has to be more to it than that. Learning means developing skills, independence of thinking with initiative for enquiry, responsibility, self-management and social skills as parts of the design of the curriculum. The purpose of school is to prepare students for life beyond school. Real learning is similar to sleeping... let me explain. You don't just "fall" asleep, you go through a process of sleeping- stages. If you were constantly interrupted throughout the night, you wake up the next morning unrefreshed and unsatisfied with the sleep you got. Real learning requires stages as well, and those stages cannot be skipped over. We should be moving away from an understanding of so...
