IGCSE/GCSE/O & A Level/IB/University Student Forum
Teachers and Students => Debates => Topic started by: tulsi182 on August 10, 2011, 02:54:43 pm
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In the coming century the whole education system is going to be totally transformed and changed because of computers. It will be stupid to teach children history, geography - unnecesarry, there is no need. All that can be done by computer; the child can carry computer. And my own observation is: the less you depend on memory, the more you become intelligent you become. That's why it happens that in the universities you will not find very intelligent people.
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The purpose behind teaching History, Geography and Civics is not only for the sake of storing knowledge for future generations. Knowledge is being stored in the form of books and records since ancient Egypt; the issue here, however, when learning dates and eminent personalities, or studying the country's topographical or related features is more about reverence and regard to the country.
It's not that twenty years back, people were incapable of reading books to know when Bill Clinton was born. I know that you speak in terms of accessibility, but in practice History and Geography are only important for those students who wish to become politicians/archeologists/geologists, who would undoubtedly need to memorize some of this knowledge--the rest of its value is out of tradition, loyalty and respect to our homelands. It is, hence, even with the advent of computers, a practice that students must study such subjects.
To the second part of your argument: where are intelligent people found, then?