Educations Importance
Education is one of the most important things in the world, but the reasons why learning is so important today is un-clear. Every modern country has a state run education system, which carries children in to their mid to late teens. The systems around the world are all quite similar, focusing on writing, math and reading, with other courses often being a second language and art. Though the systems are alike people from country to country and from town to town differ on the reasons why education is needed. Opinions range from a place to baby-sit the kids, to a needed key in the pursuit of a successful life and job.
The simple un-clarity of today’s school systems is sad. An institution with so many employees and customers (students) should have a mission statement that screamed it’s meaning and lead students on a path to where they need to go. Should students be able to recite the periodic table or simply know what it is? Should students know all the presidents or know where to find out about them? These questions need to be detailed before we can ever expect for the students to achieve well. I believe schools are meant as simply places to give people a start in life, have them all reading, knowing simple mathematics, history and science. Schools to the 8th grade should be molds, everyone should be taught the same things, maybe not in the same way, but they should walk out knowing the same basics. High school however shouldn’t be for one and all; they should lead children in different directions according to the way they learn, their goals and their means. Gardner mentions that educators “…have not appreciated the strength of the initial conceptions…” and I agree, but it is impossible unless we had one on one schooling. Everyone has different conceptions of school and of learning, but we need to focus on those in high school when the knowledge base is set.
Education needs to be focused on a simple goal in the early years, to set a universal base of knowledge and in the later years to focus on individual’s strengths. Not everyone will walk out knowing concrete knowledge but they should all walk out of school with the ability to think, reason and operate in today’s world. Schools of universal knowledge are simply asking to fail, no one can know everything, but everyone should know that everything is out there.
Educations Importance
Education is one of the most important things in the world, but the reasons why learning is so important today is un-clear. Every modern country has a state run education system, which carries children in to their mid to late teens. The systems around the world are all quite similar, focusing on writing, math and reading, with other courses often being a second language and art. Though the systems are alike people from country to country and from town to town differ on the reasons why education is needed. Opinions range from a place to baby-sit the kids, to a needed key in the pursuit of a successful life and job.
The simple un-clarity of today’s school systems is sad. An institution with so many employees and customers (students) should have a mission statement that screamed it’s meaning and lead students on a path to where they need to go. Should students be able to recite the periodic table or simply know what it is? Should students know all the presidents or know where to find out about them? These questions need to be detailed before we can ever expect for the students to achieve well. I believe schools are meant as simply places to give people a start in life, have them all reading, knowing simple mathematics, history and science. Schools to the 8th grade should be molds, everyone should be taught the same things, maybe not in the same way, but they should walk out knowing the same basics. High school however shouldn’t be for one and all; they should lead children in different directions according to the way they learn, their goals and their means. Gardner mentions that educators “…have not appreciated the strength of the initial conceptions…” and I agree, but it is impossible unless we had one on one schooling. Everyone has different conceptions of school and of learning, but we need to focus on those in high school when the knowledge base is set.
Education needs to be focused on a simple goal in the early years, to set a universal base of knowledge and in the later years to focus on individual’s strengths. Not everyone will walk out knowing concrete knowledge but they should all walk out of school with the ability to think, reason and operate in today’s world. Schools of universal knowledge are simply asking to fail, no one can know everything, but everyone should know that everything is out there.
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