Aylon Samouha
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Of course school should be like this.
But if it's so obvious, why am I on this stage telling you about it?
And what does it cost us when most students never get to learn this way?
Transcend recently surveyed 70,000 students across the US.
Less than half said they love school.
Two-thirds said it's boring.
Less than 4% said they get a chance to explore and be in charge of their own learning.
And the older students get, the worse it gets.
Nearly three-quarters of third graders say they love school.
But by high school, barely a quarter say they do.
And the data is just telling us what every parent already knows.
You ask, how was school today?
And you hear one word, fine.
Fine.
But fine isn't fine.
It's the sound of potential quietly fading.
Here's the truth most of us don't say out loud.
School isn't broken.
It's doing exactly what it was designed to do over a century ago.
It was built for the factory age, to standardize, sort, and prepare young people for predictable jobs.