David Mitchell Being Bored Summary

David Mitchell has, in his argument, overlooked some vital points about the development of our high class education system. Being bored is a skill that needs to be learnt by students and people of all ages as it is extremely useful in all situations whether social or educational. However is it right that we teach this in a place that decides the future and what we are able to achieve. He is right to question the crackdown on boring teachers because these kinds of teachers are often the ones that know the most about their subject. Sacking them because of that may not have the right effect, however we must make every effort to try and engage students to allow them to have the best chance in life.

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David Mitchell talks about this being the wrong answer by formatting it in a way that makes it sound like a fact rather than his own opinion. This is a technique he uses to convince people to comply with his opinion. I disagree with him as I feel that this is the way to raise grades and the overall ability of students. We have to try and make lessons appealing to the learner, a way to make them learn and not battle it. At the moment in classes students try to fight learning by not doing work, talking and just having a negative attitude to school. This has to change before we can move forward, and I think that improving lessons is the way to do this, David Mitchell has criticised this but not made any alternative suggestions. He says that ‘If you don't listen at school, you're screwed. If you're at a school where no one does so you can't, you're screwed.’ However he continuously opposes the attempts to try and make it easier to learn at school. If we made the lessons more mentally stimulating then there wouldn’t be talking as everyone would be absorbed in the lesson, allowing all pupils to reach the maximum of their