Memory sustainability and learning capabilities are always unique among each and every single student. Each student is like a certain unique species of the animal race. For an example, take the fish as a representation. Each and every species of fish are unique in their own appearances, habitats, and behaviors. It would be unthinkable to give all species of fishes the exact same food, habitat, and the same hospitality. If you have ever kept a goldfish as a home pet, then you wouldn't keep and take care of a piranha the same way you would with a goldfish. What one animal can do is not always simple or even possible among other animals. Human society and the mind of humans are much more advanced and complex than the smartest animal's mind or their society. What a certain animal race might have as a natural instinct is different from humans', because human beings are extremely diverse; they eat different things, they live in different places, and their characteristics are unique because each person is affected by their own surrounding culture and how they were raised.
It's common sense, right? Not so with most schools. In a way, most schools are not creative or encouraging enough. It comes with the bold fact that the majority of teachers have been doing their jobs for a long time. By this time, they are worn out by their work and their students. Their enthusiasm and creativity may be dulled or perhaps even dead, because doing anything for so long gets repetitive and turns you into a machine. What teachers clearly need is a 1 to 5 years vacation of living life without teaching, in order to pursue exciting projects and talents dependent on their particular subject in expertise, or maybe even whatever they find to enjoy outside of the teacher life. The reason for this is so that when they go back to teaching, their enthusiasm and creativity will be renewed, and they will be inspired to try to do the same projects with their students. If any mentally working employed person has ever deserved a vacation, it's a teacher. Clearly, being a teacher is more difficult than being a student. Their pay is not among the highest paying jobs, and their work takes more time than students' homework will ever take. They have to create the homework, check all the students' assignments, sometimes suggesting or correcting, then finally, they have to grade and put the final grades into the grade books. Students don't have the risk of losing their jobs if they don't do a great job, and it is almost virtually impossible to get terrible grades as a final, without teachers reaching out and attempting to help students. Whether the teachers do a fulfilling job or not depends on the school and the teacher. With helping students, some teachers are more personal, and some are more pushing. Despite the different methods teachers use, all teachers are obligated to help or personally tutor their students, or at least contact parents a notice. Although teachers may have already established that bad grades are the students' fault of impractical strategy, such as not studying, not doing homework, or not paying attention to lectures, they sometimes ignore the students that may be limited or the students that have weak points in particular subjects because of how they were raised, trained, etc.
School assignments should be more hands-on, interactive with real life objects and lessons. Students should choose certain assignments that could fit their personal skills, talents, and interests outside of school. That way students are more personalized, and every single homework assignment doesn't look like the same, endless white papers with black ink. The main reason why grades may not define intelligence is because students are at different levels or are interested in different things. The subjects taken at school are limited, and students are not able to choose different subjects outside of the main subjects. Bad grades can also mean that students are not interested in whatever they are required to learn, simply because they are learning something more productive, entertaining, and enjoyable outside of school rather than inside of school. They are interested and perhaps extremely good at what they do, that at school their focus is on different materials and ideas different from what they are originally supposed to learn. I believe it is extremely important for teachers to allow assignments to be personalized and customized, to collide with whatever they might be interested in at home, so it produces more enjoyment and interest. I don't need to take a survey to prove that students find assignments less interesting when those assignments don't cooperate with anything they enjoy. Yes, eventually students who do go to college do have more options on what to study and learn, but college may be expensive and not affordable for some students. I also believe it would be a smart strategy to train students in subjects that they would want to work on in college, so that they are prepared and experienced for the future instead of wasting more time and money in college than they need to.
