Why? Why? Why?

Why is the one word that comes out of the mouths of just about every educator from birth on to death because it is the driving force in our lives. We simply can not help our selves as a group of people we are driven to learn and to pass that knowledge on to anyone that will listen. It is the one word that drives modern day administrators up the walls. They are the type of people who wish nothing more then to give an order and have it followed to the letter without commit and yet they are trying their level best to herd and communicate with cats who call them selves educators.

It is no more in our nature to be controlled then it is for us to stop breathing air. We want to commit on everything and every subject we come into contact with and we have a view that just has to be expressed each and every time. We no more agree with each other then we do with the administration that tries to rule our kind. We do get along with lawyers because they appear to be just like us and the bonus is that they love to argue just as much as we do and never admit to being in the wrong. Maybe that is the reason Aristotle first started teaching on the steps of government because he knew that he would find lawmakers in those buildings and at some point they had to come out and deal with him and yet in the end it cost him his life.

Why can we not get lawmakers in the modern world to understand that the knowledge we pass on to our students is just as valuable as any tool made by humankind? Why can we not make them understand that in order to pass along knowledge that we must have the time to pursue knowledge our selves after all we are a creative lot of people? Why is it that we cannot make lawmakers understand that in order for people to learn that their educators must have the freedom to pass the knowledge alone in their own methods however peculiar or strange those methods may appear?

Cookie cutter education teaches people only how to be cookie cutter people who cannot learn or think for them selves. If lawmakers want to improve education in this country then they will challenge educators to find the best methods and the most effectives systems to educate our current generation of people and they will challenge educators to find ways to prove that their students are learning to the top of their abilities. Cookie cutter test will only produce cookie cutter results that will prove nothing in the long run. True learning only happens when an environment of creative freedom is produced that can promote the endeavor.