e case though, because it is known that school is boring. School is thought of as an institution where people go and take tests that are in turn graded and justified with an alphabetical hierarchy that determines who is smart/who is dumb, and who can get a good job/ who can't get a good job. One of the biggest problems with the educational system is that it only uses the left side of the brain. Things like reading, writing and arithmetic are all subjects dominated by the left side. The only subjects that can reach the right side of the brain are some art classes and music classes. In Drawing on the Right side or the Brain, expert and award winning author Betty Edwards writes “Even today, though educators are increasingly concerned with the importance of intuitive and creative thought, school systems in general are still structures in the left-hemisphere mode.” Teaching is sequenced: students progress through grades one, two, three, etc., in a linear direction. The main subjects students study are verbal and numerical: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Time schedules are followed. Seats are in rows. Students converge on answers. Teachers give out grades. Not only is this all very mechanical, but it ignores the virtues of the right hemisphere. Student may be a genius because they are dreamers, are good with complex idea combinations, are intuitive and are capable of leaps of insight. But these qualities are never explored in school. So this genius student may be failing in the linear left hemisphere mode and then develop emotional harmful thoughts of failure since they don’t realize their given potential since all they see is failing grades. The left hemisphere of the brain is just half of the brain so why is it the only half being explored in school? This failure to confront the other hemisphere causes weakening in the right hemisphere since the right hemisphere isn’t being exercised. In an age ...
