Children's school is changing very fast today. In the past, teachers k______ children sitting still for hours. They made them memorize d________ kinds of things. In other w______, the children had to go on repeating things until they knew them "by heart". Today, many teachers want to know if it isp______ to make children learn at all. They say you can often help them learn. They say you must let children and find out things for t________.
But for these children, school is a kind of prison. They are there only because theirp_______ make them go. They get out of the classroom as soon as the teacher lets theml_____. Many of them want to find work, but the law will not let them worku_____ they reach a certain a______. And so, they have to stay in school. Often they do not learn anything at all and h_____ every moment.