Learning should be fun?

It is no secret that the state of affairs in the American educational system is on a steep slope of decline. Those who deny this are deluding themselves. People in America are stupid! That is not a spiteful remark on my part, it is a proven fact. The kids in the schools are losing all motivation to learn, they are slow, immature and easily persuaded by a consumer oriented media.

Whay is causing this? The US holds the strong opinion that it is the strongest nation on earth. It's illusions of unbreakable power gives it's citizens ego in places where it shouldn't be (let me say Babylon, Rome and Germany) and which is already leading to it's downfall. AMERICAN EDUCATION IS APPROACHING THAT OF THIRD WORLD NATIONS!!!!




Most kids in US schools don't see the point of going to school, they have better things to do with their life like watch TV, surf the web (guilty here) and play games. The teachers make no effort to intruige the students, their interest is to give the material and collect a paycheck at the end of the day. The subjects are foriegn and unrelated to the daily lives. "why should we care about the civil war? Racism is no longer an issue."
Science is still held as a "Geeky" subject, those that enjoy it suffer the guise of anti-socialism, although science has made all our lives easier. As a strong science advocate I find this mode of thinking strongly outdated. Albert Einstein is still celebrated as a popular figure. "what does it matter if we learn creation or evolution in schools? It's all the same"

So what is the solution? Some say learning should be fun. Kids should enjoy going to school and learning new things. Indeed this would help a lot, as kids will always gravitate towards what they enjoy doing. But first we must look at how things are being tought, motivating is only second step.
We must start off by refiging our long outdated take on education. Psychology sciences have proven time and again that the way we teach is not the way our brains are hardwired to learn. The typical take on study is to take a list of facts and memorize them.
Memorize these words! 'Steak', 'exclusive', 'biosincrocity' and 'deja vu'
You'll have to read them a few times to remember them for more then a minute. But now try this- 'orange', 'banana', 'grapefruit', 'cherry', 'apple' and 'watermelon'
I just gave you a longer list, but after reading the second list only once you would probably recall most of the items. Why is this?

Untill now educaters regarded our brain as a computer. You put in a set of comands and then any time later we can recall them in the same order they were put in. This is obviously not the case with humans. No normal person can remember everything in a chronological order, it would take a savant to remember the lists of things we try to remember in exactly the way we need to.
Our memories work more like maps. we go from one point to another, every memory leads to the next. In the first list I gave above you could not draw any map with the words, there was no relation between the words, thus you had to force them together. With the second list the map came naturally, all the words are names of fruit, thus memory was extremly easy.
Knowing this we can now revolutionize the education system! Math becomes a easy, history a game. All the other subjects should be tought accordingly, not as logical lists but as emotional and understandable maps.

Step one I said was revolution. The second step, and the importent one really, is motivation. We need to motivate the younger generation, and the media is not helping. We need to turn going to school into a lifetime experience, not a mandatory chore we took growing up. Instead of the future generation growing up to hate learning like we did they should like it, LOVE IT! Live it and understand it. Because you can never force someone to do something hey don't want to do, but you can make them want to do it.

And as a closing bonus, here is somemore footage that will show just how stupid some Americans really are: