<p>I am interning at a high school this semester as part of my MS Ed TESOL program, and what strikes me most about the student experience, as opposed to a typical adult work place, is the constant change over which the student has no control.</p>
<p>At the end of each period, they stop whatever it is they were doing, pick up their stuff, and walk for five minutes to a new location where they are asked to do something all but entirely unrelated to whatever it was they were up to just five minutes before. Each class is a separate intellectual (and often physical) entity. If they started to understand a concept in period one on Monday, by the time they get to period one on Tuesday chances are that that understanding has been squashed into a corner by a whole bunch of new stuff. </p>
<p>Why society has come to believe that this is a good way for people to learn, is truly beyond me.</p>