Are Human Brains Fit For The Current Education System? The question has long bothered me—are human brains well enough suited for the current information flow through our society? It is most clear to me how many people struggle with seemingly basic things, like school and homework.

Where most would complain about the school system being imperfect when struggling, I took a different approach to the problem. I asked myself: What if it’s not the school system that’s the problem, but us? 

The last time the human brain experienced any major changes was well over thirty-five thousand years ago. And at first, it might seem like not a great deal has changed in society since then. However, upon deeper inspection, humans were only hunter-gatherers and still migrated upon the climate and available food at that time, meaning that the human brain has not had any major change since before we even settled in villages or cities.

Since then, humanity has invented many incredible things and explored the universe in ways people couldn’t even imagine a few hundred years ago, let alone thousands. This leads back to the previous point—because human brains haven’t had a major change since before villages were invented, it is only reasonable that some humans can struggle with what seems to be simple information and processes, such as school. 

You may ask “But in what ways is the human brain not good enough?” To that, I have a few things to mention. The first thing, and probably the most important one, is the fact that humans are made to only think about themselves. You might think this is not true, and try to mention how you do things for others, like doing favors and giving aid.

However, I truly believe that those actions all stem from the fact that you know you will feel good after helping someone, therefore you help. People don’t usually consider others before themselves, and that leads to multiple problems in the education system. It leads to things like distractions, decisions that will poorly affect the experience of others, and similar problems that a person can make without caring about the people around them. But most importantly, if a person decides they don’t need to know something, they won’t learn it. This reveals how a basic mindset can change the course of someone’s grade book.

The second answer somewhat stems from the first one, and it is the basic desire to be heard and seen. Some might think “Oh no, I’m an introvert, I don’t want to be seen or heard.” But why did you say that? Why would you try and tell me that? It is so that your preferences can be seen and heard.

This feeling dwells in all of us, and can also lead to experiences that poorly affect others or even yourself. I believe that if we weren’t as dependent on this primitive feeling, we would see much less of a phenomenon known as “High school drama” and other factors that lead to disciplinary actions which ultimately make it harder to learn anything and succeed.

 In reality, there are many more examples of similar flaws in our brains that will take forever to get over, so I must be brisk and end my opinions here. But next time you witness anyone doing anything at school, and I mean anything, think about what I said and try to see it for yourself.