Going to universities has become a paved path for many high school graduated, and more students attend universities than ever before. In today’s education system, students memorize mechanically what instructors tell them, however, the lack of independence thinking skill is not what truth the education should be. While schools develop students to become thinkers, it is important to have a guideline in course syllabuses because some class materials may be harmful.
Universities are places to train students to become “thinkers” to come out with new ideas through educating them, but students should be educated in a safe environment. The reason for studying is to innovate new ideas, and universities are places to educate “future designers”. One hundred years ago, the Wright Brother invented the first single airplane; today, engineers invent the biggest airplane, A380, that carries more than 500 people; one hundred years later, inventors will invent a passenger spaceship for space travels. In the past, people studied because they learned knowledge and applied those knowledge to create new things that improved our society. However, studying in today does not have the same meaning as before because lots of students just remember the content in textbooks without understanding the meaning. A Journalist Sydney J. Harris describes the current phenomenon of education on his journal, “What True Education Should Do”, and he writes “ When most people think of the word “education,” they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing.” (What True Education Should Do, Sydney J. Harris, Line 1-2). If learning is to memorize everything in textbooks, machines can replace human’s brains and do the jobs for us. Let’s consider a question. There is a math problem, and we can either learn the math skills or we can use a calculator to solve the problem. Why people do not just learn to use the calculator? It is because the calculator only follows the command that we, human, put in it, and it cannot generate the equation by itself. In life, we face different problems that are not covered in textbooks, and we do not always have a guideline to follow. When the Wright Brother started out an idea of building the airplane, they did not have a manual book to follow, but they used their physical knowledges, observation, and experiences. Truth education in universities should train students to become a problem solvers rather a mechanic memorizer because there is not a textbook outside. Learning is not just memorizing the content of textbook, but it is a process of understanding theories and create new things. Harris points out an idea of teaching is to inspire one’s creativity in his journal “But genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not inserting stuffings of information into a person, but rather electing knowledge from him; it is the drawing out of what is in the mind” (What True Education Should Do, Sydney J. Harris, Line 3-5). …show more content…
There is time when classes’ materials include sensational topics that affect students’ mental health, and some students’ traumatic memories might be hooked up when those sensitive topics go over in classes. It should be a safe action for colleges to adopt a “trigger warmer” policy to warm students in classes’ syllabus what course materials might be covered. In fact, trigger warming has already gained supporters, and these schools use the policy to ensure their students are educated in a safe environment. “University of California - Santa Barbara has passed a resolution that professors should indicate in syllabi when emotionally or physically stressful material would be presented in class” (Brianne Richson, “College should Adopt Trigger Warnings”, Page 98 , Line 3-5). University of California - Santa Barbara, UCSB, as one of the best universities in the nation provides a high quality of education, and it adopts the “trigger warming” policy to protect students to learn in a safe environment. In fact, this policy has a huge benefit for students. One of my friends who is a victim of assault assault, and she attends UCSB. When she took a social politic class, her professor passed out a syllabus that outlines every topic which would be covered in the course. There was a lecture that covered a topic about sexual crime victim, and she decided not to attend that lecture because it would hook up her traumatic
Universities are places to train students to become “thinkers” to come out with new ideas through educating them, but students should be educated in a safe environment. The reason for studying is to innovate new ideas, and universities are places to educate “future designers”. One hundred years ago, the Wright Brother invented the first single airplane; today, engineers invent the biggest airplane, A380, that carries more than 500 people; one hundred years later, inventors will invent a passenger spaceship for space travels. In the past, people studied because they learned knowledge and applied those knowledge to create new things that improved our society. However, studying in today does not have the same meaning as before because lots of students just remember the content in textbooks without understanding the meaning. A Journalist Sydney J. Harris describes the current phenomenon of education on his journal, “What True Education Should Do”, and he writes “ When most people think of the word “education,” they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing.” (What True Education Should Do, Sydney J. Harris, Line 1-2). If learning is to memorize everything in textbooks, machines can replace human’s brains and do the jobs for us. Let’s consider a question. There is a math problem, and we can either learn the math skills or we can use a calculator to solve the problem. Why people do not just learn to use the calculator? It is because the calculator only follows the command that we, human, put in it, and it cannot generate the equation by itself. In life, we face different problems that are not covered in textbooks, and we do not always have a guideline to follow. When the Wright Brother started out an idea of building the airplane, they did not have a manual book to follow, but they used their physical knowledges, observation, and experiences. Truth education in universities should train students to become a problem solvers rather a mechanic memorizer because there is not a textbook outside. Learning is not just memorizing the content of textbook, but it is a process of understanding theories and create new things. Harris points out an idea of teaching is to inspire one’s creativity in his journal “But genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not inserting stuffings of information into a person, but rather electing knowledge from him; it is the drawing out of what is in the mind” (What True Education Should Do, Sydney J. Harris, Line 3-5). …show more content…
There is time when classes’ materials include sensational topics that affect students’ mental health, and some students’ traumatic memories might be hooked up when those sensitive topics go over in classes. It should be a safe action for colleges to adopt a “trigger warmer” policy to warm students in classes’ syllabus what course materials might be covered. In fact, trigger warming has already gained supporters, and these schools use the policy to ensure their students are educated in a safe environment. “University of California - Santa Barbara has passed a resolution that professors should indicate in syllabi when emotionally or physically stressful material would be presented in class” (Brianne Richson, “College should Adopt Trigger Warnings”, Page 98 , Line 3-5). University of California - Santa Barbara, UCSB, as one of the best universities in the nation provides a high quality of education, and it adopts the “trigger warming” policy to protect students to learn in a safe environment. In fact, this policy has a huge benefit for students. One of my friends who is a victim of assault assault, and she attends UCSB. When she took a social politic class, her professor passed out a syllabus that outlines every topic which would be covered in the course. There was a lecture that covered a topic about sexual crime victim, and she decided not to attend that lecture because it would hook up her traumatic