Evolution will forever be a part of the planet Earth as long as it is still capable of holding life.  From the beginning of humans, we have developed and become more evolved to adapt to our ever-changing environment. From the stone age, weapons, tools, and communication have all changed and given us very easy ways to improve a person’s lifestyle. Each century you will always see differences in ways people have lived and there are many things out there that have improved immensely even since we could take pictures of them.

Cars, computers, televisions, and many other concepts and things are completely changed within even the last 50 years, but if you take historic pictures of a classroom they remain similar. Why is this? Why is it that when we can go from a Ford Model T into a Ford Taurus, but we all still raise our hands and learn concepts from a person writing on a board. The only thing that evolves from each classroom is the chalk turned to Expo and the projectors changed to Smart Boards, but we are still saved by a bell and a desk is where we lay our heads when a concept becomes too much.

Children have evolved in the past 200 years, but the way they are taught is completely the same.  Throughout our evolution, schools have become less and less effective, but changes aren’t being made.  There’s a strong belief that schools should be changed and concepts should be reevaluated in order to maximize the learning experience for our children and start encouraging success instead of just teaching it. Each child presents a different mind and I believe that the humans would be much more evolved if each child’s strengths were found and used rather than basing their general intelligence on a standardized test made for something that may not come easy.

If we were to focus on a child’s  specific strengths, then I believe that the world could become a more evolved and put together place. What if we started from a baseline child concept to match each child individually?