Chapter 6: If I Have All The Right Answers, Why Can’t I Think?
1. In
our education system, we are taught that there is only one right answer,
ultimately making students believe that all other answers are wrong. This has a
way of encouraging students to stop thinking after they’ve discovered what the
system says is the ‘right’ answer (and this crush their curiosity, dampening
their enthusiasm and stunting their creativity). In fact, they will also soon
be indoctrinated into believing that memorizing is the same as learning. It is
not, of course.
2. Then,
the long term utilization of this process not only causes boredom, it also
teaches them to be dependent on an outside authority figure to tell them the
‘right’ answers. Ultimately this deprives students of their full potential to
succeed in life.
3. One
of the saddest things about people who have to be right is that they cannot see
how more than one “right” answer might exist. It also prevents them from
looking beyond their “right” answer for other answers.
4. Our
educational system dictates to students rather than encouraging them to think
for themselves. It demands that they memorize what the system wants them to
know, instead of teaching them to learn how to solve their own problems or
develop their own inherent creativity.
5. The
good news is that each and every one of us has the power to turn around in our
own lives. And this turnaround begins by having the courage to unlearn the
lessons of the past, a process that begins by letting go of the lie that there
are only single right answers to anything.
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