Topic > Regurgitant and Digestive Approach to Education

Have you ever thought about what might happen when public schools decide to free students from the regurgitant approach to education? In America, teachers are expected to monitor student testing. Public school systems believe that students acquire knowledge through self-repetition, but information cannot be learned through testing strategy; Therefore, a digestive approach to education is the best plan to follow. The regurgitation approach to education teaches students to spit out information, while a digestion approach to education allows students to retain and understand information provided by teachers. On the one hand, the regurgitation approach to education teaches students to ignore analytical skills. When students regurgitate information, they memorize it and repeat it. The type of information students regurgitate on tests are historical facts, such as dates, places, and events. What motivates students to memorize the information they will be tested on is fear; before students have to take tests, they study for fear of failure. Through the process of repetition...