Empowering Education-Shor

"Can education develop students as critical thinkers, skilled workers, and active citizens?"
 "You must arouse children's curiosity and make them think about school".
     I believe the answer to the first quote lies within the second one; in order to make students critical thinkers and skilled workers, schools need to make them use their brains with their opinions. I think it is a good idea to ask students why does the government force us to go to school. It gets children thinking and also teaches them why school is important. I believe if a children think of answers by themselves they would want to go to school more often and perhaps wouldn't hate it. This also gets them thinking and is a way for them to socialize which is an important part of schooling. By teaching children at a young age how to think for themselves this will benefit them in the long run for further schooling and careers. This related to the Anyon reading because middle class schools teach based on the right answer and how that answer was achieved.
     I know throughout my schooling teachers never cared for my reasoning behind anything or what I thought and when I got to college it was completely different. In college most professors ask students why they think of certain things and care about their opinions. For example, my Math 144 class is all about discussion and what we think. Instead of my teacher just teaching he lets us figure it out ourselves and then we discuss the correct answer together as a class. If someone comes up with a different answer my professor does not tell he/she is wrong but instead asks how and why we got that answer. Another class were opinion is important is this FNED class. At first, I was hesitant to say my opinion because I was not used to it but then as class continued I became more open. If I was taught at a young age that my opinion counts I would not be as scared to speak my opinion today.