I absolutely love this article! His ideas about educating students on expression is brilliant. I find that there are so many brilliant students, but they have no idea how to express themselves. It is very common for the really brilliant presenters to use very boring power points with very difficult dialogue. If these people were taught how to express themselves, there would be more people understanding and gaining knowledge from their presentations. I also find it very common for lower level students to be very creative. I watch the students that don't do very well in class and their doodles on their notebooks are amazing. I spoke with one struggling student and he was telling me how he loved to write poetry and songs. He really struggled in a math class, but his poems were really amazing. If these students learned to apply expression to subjects such as math, they might be much more successful.
I agree that we need to teach students how to apply the skills they learn in school more rather than just how to reach one conclusion. Like he said, you do not want students to just learn geometry, you want them to learn to build a house. I also liked that he said that the education system was the base of everything. I have always believed this and there are not many people who do so it is refreshing to see someone not in the education field to make this statement. Overall, I really enjoyed this article and thought the ideas were really on point.
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