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제 12 호 The Grand Prize of 41th English Essay Contest, "Untact Lectures:Now It's Time to Break Eggs & Move on to a Bigger World"

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Kicker: The Grand Prize of 41th English Essay Contest


Untact Lectures: Now It's Time to Break Eggs and Move on to a Bigger World


by So-young Youn,

Korean Language Education student 


  Do you remember your life 15 years ago? I didn't have a smart phone as well as a cell phone. So when I drew imaginary paintings on Science Day, I always imagined myself taking classes at home on my tablet. What about you? Have you ever imagined a future like this? In fact, at that time, I didn't really want to be able to have an untact lecture, but I just vaguely thought that there might be a future like this. How about comparing this imagination to now? It's not about the future anymore. Now, it has become a very natural appearance of today. In fact, this imagination was only for a young child who knew nothing about education. I mean a little kid who didn't want to get up early in the morning and go to school. It was inevitable due to COVID-19, but now the children are taking school classes on tablets at their homes.

  Educationally, this is very unfortunate. We are facing several crises with untact lectures. The first is the lack of direct experience. In the school field, we can experience many things. Just thinking about our school days, we did various experiments in the science room and experienced ecology through field trips. On the other hand, all experiences in untact lectures are inevitably indirect and limited. Of course, untact lectures have the advantage of having no time and space restrictions. However, experience through virtual reality is inevitably inferior to direct experience. The second is that it is difficult for children to learn the value of the community. After the untact lecture, the stress of many middle and high school students decreased compared to offline lectures. Since they don't go to school, the stress they had at school was reduced. But if the stress at school is solved by not going to school, can it be seen as a real solution? Various conflicts arise in the school field, such as relationships with friends, relationships with teachers, and class problems. It's probably too natural in a space where people are together. In the process of resolving conflicts, children can learn to treat people and understand community life. It is impossible in untact lectures where only indirect communication is possible. The last one is disconnection from society. Children who don't learn to be considerate of others and don't understand community life will gradually get used to this situation. Children who only think about themselves, are comfortable working alone, and are accustomed to handling everything untact. In the end, this society will be bound to be cut off. 

  COVID-19 seems to have caused these educational problems, but in fact, this is the chronic problem of our 'Korean education' intensified due to COVID-19. At this rate, even if COVID-19 stabilizes and we can live a normal life, there is a high possibility that the aforementioned problems will not be solved. So what should we do? It's time to think about it together. Perhaps the answer can be found in communication. School is a space where children learn various values of life and establish their own values. But when we think of the school education we went through, we can see that this is not the case. Rather, our school education is encouraging competition among children. Now this society is no different from games where only winners can survive. In fact, the logic of a capitalist society is frighteningly simple. It's hard for individuals to change their social structure. To survive, we have no choice but to compete with others. It's a very unfortunate thing. However, it is not right for school education to stand by and even encourage children's competition. The more that happens, the more schools should teach children how to understand, care for, and live together. Now children should be able to think for themselves. Why do we humans live? Why do we live in a society where we have no choice but to compete? Is this the right competition? What can we do for a fair society where everyone can be happy? What should I do? We should stop injecting the value of vested interests into children and help them have a world they dream of on their own. A small bird breaks an egg and comes out. I hope our children, adults, Korean education, and Korean society can now break through eggs to build a better education system/society.