This is Not Okay! We are NOT OKAY!!!

It is not the teacher’s responsibility for the student to learn. It is the student’s. The teacher’s responsibility should be to provide the student with the tools for them to learn for themselves and to encourage them throughout the learning process. Learning and teaching are two completely different things and that is [one place] where our school system fails us. Learning involves work ethic and endurance and independence, whereas teaching involves memorization and regurgitation of facts, teaching is a “show-and-tell” of sorts. Learning produces character as much, if not more than it produces facts. Learning fills a student with wonder, whether they are learning about literature or art or science or sports, it brings passion. Apathy in the classroom is in part due to the lack of learning: students are content to just pass a test and have absolutely no initiative to further explore the subject or to apply it.