Child’s Development and Play
Educators are taking away play and focusing on a more academic approach to school. This, however, limits the time where the children can learn things for themselves. The school systems are starting to use technology more and even teaching children to type instead of writing. Losing skills like writing in the classroom will not allow a child the opportunity to learn the art. It is also proven that when learning writing and forming the words letter by letter will help the children remember what is being taught better.
Children are most directly affected by the actions taken to limit or take away play time. By limiting their play it limits the creative time that a child gets. As a child, the main source of learning is plays. Everything a child does in play can bring up new observations or questions that help them learn about the world.
This problem is particularly big in the United States. In other countries, like Germany, they have instituted programs to get children outside and learning. In Germany, preschool has a lot of the time outside. They teach the kids archery and let them explore the forest. This gives the students time to learn and grow by themselves.
The time to take action is now! If we allow children to not have creative time we will lose an aspect of our culture in a matter of a few generations. Cursive has been taken out of school because it is considered unnecessary. The art of writing is extremely important! Writing will probably never go away completely, but if we are not teaching our students the value of art and writing it will be lost in future generations.
This is a very important issue that should gain a lot of focus. In the middle ages, after the age of Rome, the art lost a realism aspect to it. Rome had so much to give but the art digressed from that point on. Our future is a future of children regressing and losing some of these beautiful forms of art because they are not allowed the opportunity to grow through play. They do not have the ability to develop a creative mind which is already an attribute that is hard to find.
We can fix this. Maybe not change what is being taught in the classrooms but we have the opportunity to teach the children ourselves.
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