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LEGO Exposes The Biggest Flaw In Traditional Education
It does so quite subtly, but maybe we should pay attention. The solution can often be just a brick away…
The other night I was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and towards the end of season 5, there’s an episode where the Scooby Gang tries to teach Dawn some geometric concepts on how a triangle works. Buffy doesn’t quite see the value in creative teaching methods and orders her little sister to go home and do some “real studying”. Needless to say, as someone who learnt everything useful and interesting in my life outside the boundaries of traditional education, I took issue with her reaction. Why does it matter how you learn something? What is more important? The methodology or the outcome? The answers come from where answers always come to me — from LEGO.
For much of the world, it’s old news that traditional education leaves a lot to desire. Looking back at my history with schools and learning, paints a very similar picture. Traditional schools have largely failed me. As a kid and teenager I studied out of fear, and though I was a good student for the most part, I rarely if ever enjoyed the courses, even subjects I was really good at. It took another few years — in my early twenties — to discover the beauty of learning, and the internet helped in ways I…
