Knowledge or Happiness?

Talking about teaching, it isn't as simple as some think about it. teachers are required to know more about their students, materials, and other things related.

What's the main aim of education? Is it to make our students know what we teach in the classroom? Should we ask them to master our subject, but our students aren't interested in? Must we force or push them to get standardised scores in our subjects? How is happiness of students when they learn something? How is their mental? How do we understand and facilitate what they want and need in our classroom? What should we do when our students think that what we teach isn't useful for them?

In the beginning of my teaching journey, I might focus on how well students master my subject. Then, I relaised that what I did might not be useful for students. Then, I try to teach about creativity of students in which students not only learn about the subjects but also activate or use them outside the classroom. Besides, I must enhance their creativity, and I must provide creative teaching and teaching for creativity. Am I sure that teaching for creativity belongs to any subjects at school? I'm certain about it. I try to make and do things to creatively teach and lead students to be more creative.

Does all of knowledge which students get lead them to develop critical thinking and problem-solving? Do we let our students sit on their chairs all day long and just answer what are written in their text books? Must they just read and discuss about a theory of laws or other things? Students may be bored of school. They go to school, enter the classroom, do the tasks given, and leave school. What do you think about the best purpose of education?

In the industry era, what are teachers' roles in the education relating to the global growth? Must we teach cross-curricular? Should we only focus on the subject we teach? Design thinking is important. Which one is better, calculating how strong the bridge can get the loads or design the bridge from around-us-materials with "simple" calculation and let students present it? OR both of them are important. But, what should we do when we aren't in the science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. We teach languages, social sciences, history, physical education, and so forth? Can the teachers take parts to educate children in the case of that? Yes, we can.Then, teachers must learn and update what is going on.

Other crucial parts of education are about attitude, behaviour, mindset, the way of thinking, and other things relating to honesty, discipline, and kindness. Who have responsibility to teach students about attitude? Which one is taught first, knowledge or attitude? Have we talked and thought more and more about attitude and point of views when we are in the education field?

We also concern with another thing: happiness. Do we care of our students' happiness? Do we let them learn in our class with feelings of worry, anxiety, pressure, and insecure? We keep doing what we act in the class with a reason that what we've done is the best way to educate them? Do we know their feelings?

We also have more questions to ourselves about education.
How do my students socialise and interact with others?
How do our students use what they learn in the class?
How is their motivation to attend our class?
How much information do they get?
How useful are our lessons?