I remember the poppies; I remember them with clarity, how they would swish and sway to the melodious tune of doves , humming as they spread out across the land to hunt, play, and live. I remember the grass, how it would unleash a refreshing, earthy scent which I couldn’t help but bend down to smell. I remember sitting at my desk, trying to solve the algebra equations my math teacher had assigned me, but I could not focus because of the sublime sunset. Gazing off to the vast, endless horizon was one of the peculiar hobbies I had, which I still keep to this day, but it felt weird. It felt weird because the horizon had changed; it had become desolate and melancholy, covered in ashes and the blood our remaining soldiers had left for us to see—a reminder that although they tried their best, we were defenseless without them. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to frolic in the meadows near my home for what the rest of my days offered. I wanted to get a degree in filmmaking and become a ...
School is supposed to be a place of learning, critical thinking, and joy, where young minds can enhance their abilities to read and write and develop a sense of independence—preparing them for the real world. But nowadays, if you go and ask any regular child, “Hey, do you like school?” I can assure you, the majority of children will say no without hesitation. Here is the question lingering in all our minds: why do children hate school? It’s actually much deeper than just laziness or unwillingness to study. Natural Curiosity Children are born curious; it’s a survival instinct. They can spend hours figuring out why ants move in lines or why the sky is blue. The system is supposed to support that and use these questions as an advantage to help them learn, but instead, it tends to squash their free-spirited questions into little boxes. By the time those boxes are opened, it’s far too late—they’ve lost their will and curiosity, falling into the molds the system wanted them to fall ...