If you are in school, think about your classes. Are all or most of your classrooms set up in a typical "desks facing forward" type arrangement? The answer is most likely yes. This is because the education system has not changed much since 150 years ago. A video that I would like to share today is linked down below. After watching this, I felt very inspired to write this week's article. Please watch!!

I hope you are inspired like I was after first watching the video. Like I said in one of my previous articles, my dream is to become a teacher when I am older. I've always wanted to have a positive impact on the lives of the students that I will teach. After watching this video, I was even more inspired to help change the education system so that it will be better for the students.

In the video, the guy, whose name is Prince Ea, compares the cars and technologies of today and many years ago and shows that they have greatly changed since then. When he shows a picture of schools, however, the classrooms look exactly the same. Everything in the world has changed and developed for the better, except for the way students are taught. Still today, most classrooms are arranged so that all of the students are facing forward, looking at the teacher. I'm not saying the education system should change just because of the arrangement of the desks. This is just representing the hard curriculum and standardized tests that students are faced with in their everyday lives.

I believe a student's intelligence should not be based on test scores or their grades. But rather, how dedicated the student is in learning. I hope to change the system little by little when I become a teacher one day!