To Kill A Mockingbird Education System

The Education System Against Learning
The school system in America is flawed to the point in which it is now killing creativity, individuality, and ultimately the future of the students that the educational system has failed to teach. This crude system has been suppressing the great things that could be done through education and learning. This is because education and learning have become two different things. Even Mark Twain once said,”I never let my schooling get in the way of my learning” (qtd. in Prince Ea n. pag.). Although these words of the great American author are rash, they ring with a crushing truth, bringing to light the serious issues that the educational system in America is faced with, the educational system has failed.
Now The state has a certain curriculum that they require for schools, and most of these restricting rules or curriculum is created by people who have never taught a day in their life. This issue was brought up in Prince ea’s I'm suing the School System video, however the issue has been around even before the publishing of the book To Kill a Mockingbird: Young Scout whom the story was told through was discouraged and basically yelled at by her teacher for knowing how to read even before Scout’s first day of school. Being taught by her father, Atticus how to read from a young age, she was already a good reader. But because her teacher had learned new techniques of teaching from the state, Scout’s way of learning was wrong, simply because it was not taught to Scout by the teacher using the state’s methods.(Lee n. pag.). This curriculum is very flawed and outdated, even during the time To Kill a Mockingbird was written, and is restricting the potential for learning in the classroom and here’s why: according to teach.com there are four main types of learning Visual, Auditory, Reading and Writing, and Kinesthetic. Most students will fall into one of these categories. The significance of this is that only 10% of students learn the best through reading, writing and lectures, the most common teaching method used in the American classroom today. This leaves the other 90% of learners like “fish trying to climb trees”. Albert Einstein once said this about the common education system:”Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live it’s whole life believing that it is stupid”(qtd. in Prince Ea n. pag.). Most students today feel like the poor fish trying to climb a tree. Furthermore, there is another large reason why people feel stupid or are just turned off by school in general