Seth Godin

 

    Seth Godin’s talking is quite fascinating for me  because he asks some important questions to consider carefully about education. The questions are ‘what is school for and what school used to be for’. He answers these questions  by examining  the process of education in the US. Before 50 years ago, the school was about teaching obedience. That is, there is a some certain pattern. For example, students had to do what the teachers says,  respect him and obey his/rules.

    İn addition to this,  with the emerge of capitalism, people  started to be seen as a part of machine and interchangeable parts of the machine. That is, if they don’t work very well, they can be changed.  The system also can be changed with the effect of capitalism, for example, ,in education, we started to see textbook which the speaker doesn’t believe these textbooks is working to teach something.  So we can say that these changing which is the effect of capitalism doesn’t work in education.

     When we looked at the turkish education before 50 years ago ,  we can also see that these   certain patterns in education. The  teacher is seen the director in class, therefore, you had to respect and obey his/her rules. İn addition, the student decision  was not important for family or teacher because the student became what the teacher or family want to be. İf your family want you to be a doctor, you had to be a doctor. However, when we look at today’s education system, new teacher doesn’t support the system which was used 50 years ago because they believe that interactive learning and the student decision is important.