Real Learning Doesn’t Start at School…

Real learning starts at home with your parents. 

It does not start at school in a Journalism class, nor English, Biology, Geology, etc…Real learning does not start in a classroom full of computers where we sit around and write about boring things that most students are not interested in or could care less about.

Before we start attending school we actually already know a lot, enough to separate right from wrong and black from white. We don’t learn everything we know at school. We don’t learn to potty at school or to talk, we learn all of this at home with our parents and family friends. About 99.9% of the teachers around the world believe that going to school is going to teach us how to live our lives but what they fail to realize is that it doesn’t happen that way.

For many different reasons not all of us are able to attend school; some of us have been raised in a place where attending school is not our first priority. My mom for example, she was raised much different then me, she did not finish school because she had to work to maintain her brothers and sisters. She didn’t have the privileges that I have. She had to wake up early every morning and get ready for another long day, selling different types of fruits and drinks just to make a living.

In another note, I took the time to interview one of my friends, her name is Olivia Diaz, I asked her if she thought that real learning takes place at school and her reply was “ I don’t believe learning about the real world takes place in any place at school, if anything it takes place at home, when you are old enough to differentiate good from bad.” I strongly agree with her because the world outside school is not the same as inside. It’s much different and harder, not to say much more expensive. Yes school is good and it teaches us the basic about different subjects and it helps us “get ready” for our careers but is not necessarily teaching us about the real world.

Real Learning has nothing to do with school; it has to do with past experiences and learning from them. The only thing school helps with is getting you prepared for a future job you might be interested in, maybe you are interested in being a math teacher or being a professional doctor. That’s when school comes in handy.  But as far as learning about the real world, you have to do that on your own, nobody tells you how hard is it to be on your own therefore many of us believe is easy but is actually not easy at all. All in all, real learning does not necessarily take place in a classroom.

By: Berta Acosta