In the Recycling The gift, there were many concepts and ideas about life and education that I strongly agreed with. The first point that really stuck out to me was when, "Jeff Duncan- Andrade explained that "...schooling is a processing of institutionalizing people to prepare them enter into society and never shake things up; education is the process by which by which people learn first, to understand themselves, their own value, their own historical place in the world. But if you try to fit them as widgets in a current economic sets need, it's ridiculous." I believe school does not encourage students enough, I believe through out the years I have been attending High school, education does not focus on what's best for the students, instead they focus on meeting the criteria. I think education should also teach students how to be comfortable with themselves and how to feel safe. From the years of five until eighteen most of our time has been in school, and I believe the school does not reach out and just let students know that we all matter. Instead students pick up bad habits, for instants the lessons we learn in school is not appealing, that instead of understanding what's being taught we're just memorizing until we no longer need it.
In the middle of the film Kate O'Neil said, "Education in some ways prepares you not for a creative fulfilled life, but to be able to sit in an office or in a cubicle 8 hours a day." I agree with what Kate's opinion on education, because we basically go to school to get in a job that we're not really happy with. Or we go to school to get a job that pays for all the school loans we owe. I believe that education does not teach students on how to find a job that they're passionate about, instead people have jobs they do not actually enjoy we just endure it. We go to school to learn about how to do a certain job and begin to live the same life everyday, almost like a robot.
In the film, Carmen Johnson says "One of the challenges with education is that it does seem like there are these two paths that you can go: you can either be robot or be a human... And there is also the chance that the institution itself doesn't really support human" Throughout my years in High school teachers and counselors pushed students that we need to go to college and college is a key to a successful life. If United States education pushes us to go to college why does the cost of education ridiculously expensive? Many people who completed college and have a career are not happy, because they are working their butts off to pay their six figure schools loans. I think education plays a big role in humans lives, and if it does not change, our future is at risk.
