Schools are said to be factories - factories that produces the next generation. If we continue to teach and educate our studebts with irrelevant ingormation through rote memorization, what kind of community and society to we intend to have in the guture? Many many many times we have been accussed of not making our students memorize. But is memorization really that important? The world is changing. More and more industries need human respurce that thinks and makes decisions over manual job ( routinary and non-thinking skills). If we put our priority on memprization, how in the world do you think will we be able to supply the industries and jobs of the future?
It just troubles me alot how after listening to amazing talks and seminars about education for the future and 21st century learning , I go back to Dagupan City where people expect their kids to just Memorize. And isnt it ironic that same people who complain about the "stupidity" of her employees demand memorization from schools??!!! Just last month, a mom had a problem with Bureau of Intenal Revenue (IRS), and she was saying that her income tax report was all wrong because her inventory head didnt do inventory properly, her human resource dud not do his job properly. She was complaining about their "stupidity" and how they cannot make euse decision. And that same mom now demands memorization. And so i want to go back to my premise. Its not memorization and rote learning that we need to prioritize in education, but on How our kuds utilize these information.