This is a small criticism aimed for those teachers that still continue to use memorization as a way of education. As a wannabe teacher I would like to say that no memorization is not an effective way of teaching. Memorization is the easy way out, as teachers we must make our students analyze and think about topics not blindly recite the definition or texts related to it. I believe this is the reason why more and more people around the world are increasingly becoming depoliticized, they don’t know how to analyze or look at different points of view.
Analysis is important for both the personal growth and the betterment of a person as a whole. We must infuse our students with the ability to form a proper judgment, the ability to think, to look at multiple points of view to properly function in this life. With memorization we only make them mindless robots, who say the same thing all over again like a parrot without thinking about it. This demolishes the ability to start proper discussion without resorting to cliches or known facts.
So what I want to say to educators all over the world, make your students think, make them analyze don’t turn them into educated zombies. Education is nothing if it doesnt develop a persons way of thinking, skills of analysis, and ability to make rational decisions. All of these go hand in hand but all of it start with proper education. This education should not be limited to university only, it must start from junior school, only then can we truly develop as a person, only then can we break our chains and be truly unique instead of an automaton with a brain. Every teachers goal should be to create fully functional people for the society not brainless, thoughtless machines that only think in a single way and only look at the world through horses glasses.