Raj Shamani - Build, Dont Talk

Imagination and emotion are the only two blessings human beings have, which the education system is killing from day one.

There are three types of learners: auditory, visual and kinaesthetic. Auditory learners learn through talking and listening, visual people learn through looking at things and reading things, and kinaesthetic people learn through experience. Every single person is partially kinaesthetic, because everyone learns best through experience. Ive given more speeches after getting inspired by a music album than I have by reading books.

The problem with traditional education is that we are taught what to learn, but we are not taught how to apply.

We are taught to read and study a subject, but the first step of an education system should be to help people discover themselves and the way they learn best. Nobody teaches us how to learn, though, and what is the best way we can learn.

Since day one, each one of us is a different human being. We are brought up differently, we have different senses, the way we perceive the world is different, we are born and brought up in a different kind of environment, we have different talents, skills and abilities.

You might learn from watching videos, I might learn by reading a book, somebody else might learn through experience, by actually doing things. An education system should be focused on helping us to explore what the right way to learn is for us, so that we know from the very beginning that this is the way I, as an individual, learn the best. But, currently, everybody is taught to learn the same thing in the same way. What if Im a video person? What if Im a kinaesthetic person? You are telling me to read, cram and then write what I remember. Reading is amazing, but what if somebody is not a reading person? The education system should be designed to help us explore our best learning form because only then can we accelerate our learning process and thrive. If you know you learn through reading books, then you can order twenty books, read them and get ahead. If I know I learn through watching videos, I can watch a hundred videos in a year and get ahead of the current 10+2 education system. If I know I learn best after talking to people, I can arrange meetings across the world and get ahead of the 10+2 system in just six months.

By the time we go to college and enter the brutal real world, a dynamic world where everything happens in a second, we would want to learn anything and everything in our lives and get ahead. But that is the time when we actually start to learn what our medium is.

Another issue I have with education in school is not the contentit is that we are not taught how to use that content. We are not taught to think, we are taught to memorize and write. Whatever we are taking in, without ever processing it, we have to take it out. They have made human beings a simple printer, not even an intelligent printer. We should be machines who can think and perceive things emotionally. Imagination and emotion are the only two blessings human beings have, which the education system is killing from day one. We are not taught to imagine, be curious, ask questions, think. We are not encouraged to challenge the status quo. If we are not taught and encouraged to do this, how will we ever learn how to challenge and take the human race forward? Thats why most people who are high achievers or high performers are not very well educated. They are obsessed with one thing, they are the best at the one thing that they do, but they are not well educated.