#3: Enlightenment

The age of Enlightenment was a time when people began to think scientifically. People began testing what was possible and what was impossible. People began believing what was proven instead of what was said. The biggest connection of the two videos and text is that not everyone is the same. In the video Changing Education Paradigms the narrator says something along the lines of "No two people are the same." when talking about the way we are taught in school. This is the same in every aspect of life. No one thinks the same, talks the same, learns the same. No two people have the exact same understanding of any one thing. People interpret everything differently. There may be a "general" understanding of something but that is the way we are taught to think, not the way our minds intentionally think. The age of Enlightenment is thought to be a period of time where people began to understand this more and more but we are proving that wrong with the way our education system is set up. Almost like a King (principal) and the workers of the castle (teachers) and the peasants (students), this is another thing thought to  be somewhat left behind during the age of Enlightenment and yet we are trying to teach our children this way.