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Why Is School Disliked By Students?
Aptly titled "Why Don't Students like School?" the book by Daniel Willingham, a University of Virginia cognitive psychologist explains how the mind works, and what it means for the classroom.
"If you ask 100 high school students if they like to learn new things, almost all of them will tell you they like to learn. But if you ask those same students if they like school, many of them will tell you they don't," said Willingham.
He explained: "The mind is actually designed to avoid thinking. Thinking is a slow process; it's effortful and even uncertain. People naturally want to avoid that process, and instead rely on memory, the things we already know how to do and are successful at."
Using cooking as an example, he said: "If you want to make spaghetti sauce, you could go onto the Internet and search out new recipes. You could go through all your cookbooks. And if you are really into cooking, you might do exactly that. But most people will just make the sauce the way they always make it, because they already know how. And so it's a lot easier that way."
He claimed that one of the reasons why students don't like school is that they are forced to think, to accept new challenges, to learn new things, and therefore do the thing their mind most wants to avoid - thinking.
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