We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom To Think Analysis

Education became one of the most controversial topics, nowadays, because of it is importance. People around the world are debating on the best way to teach students. Some of them say that student should be memorizing every line of every book, while others argues that students should be given some basic information. After that they should be taught how to think freely, and come up with their own ideas. The two writers Sydney J. Harris and Kie Ho discussed this topics sharing the same opinion in “What True Education Should Do,” and “We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think.” They believe that students should have the ability to be creative, and should be given enough space to think and share their ideas.
Sydney J. Harris argues that student always complain of not having time to learn the subject by really understanding the concepts and implications because they have a lot of topics to cover in a very short period, so they just memorize the information for the sake of passing the exam. Harris believes that student should be given the opportunity to show their knowledge, and to truly learn the subject. For example, if the student should study ten chapters of biology for his exam. He would be focusing on memorizing more than he is learning about the chapters, so if he is studying to be a doctor, and he should know the function of every

He favors the American style of education because in his country teachers make student memorize unnecessary information, while his son is learning how to be creative, and how to think freely. As he tries to justify his reasons for advocating the American educational system he says “Would We, however, prefer to stuff the developing little heads of our children with hundreds of geometry problems, the names of rivers in Brazil and 50 lines from The Canterbury Tales?” (Ho p.