Education is really important. One must be educated for approximately anything nowadays but what about our education system? Is it really working great? I don't know about education system of different countries but here where I live,it's really bad. Teachers themselves aren't educated well and they don't know basic things. Everything is decided on the basis of grades but not by the knowledge person has. In government schools here students comes in unhygienic conditions and they know nothing. Teachers themselves don't even know English when they are teaching in an English medium school. Corruption is also main reason here to ruin our education system. Its not your capability and intelligence that decides your admission in that university but the money you give. What are your thoughts about today's education and education system? Are you satisfied by it not? Do you have any suggestions?
I went to a Christian private school from Elementary to Highschool after a horrible 1/2-year stint at a public one. (Yes, half a year, I didn't last a full year in public education >n<) Privately funded schools are often seen as the better option, but they have their cons as well-or at least the ones I went to. The Elementary (which actually functioned as a Pre-school to 8th grade) was often lacking on things, such as playground equipment (it vastly improved after I graduated from the school, the younger me would be so upset), and lacking other classes beyond the necessary ones. Bullying was a big thing, and students who had parents that donated were 'protected', as in never punished even if a teacher saw them hit (yes, I-and other students- were HIT) people among other things. Highschool was better, but some rules were pretty strict and students, being rebellious teens, made it hard. :/ Education system in itself, never minding the small rant I did on private schools there, needs work! Although we were taught several things (math, reading, computers, ect) we weren't taught things everyone will need in the real world- such as how to calculate taxes, cooking, or home repair. Sure many can say 'the parents should teach that' but some kids don't have the pleasure of having parents that they can talk to, or have this information. Not to mention how it's all 'cookie-cutter' without any real bend for kids that learn differently/slower than others.
The majority of public schools are fine. Yes, they aren't top notch and private schools, especially the expensive ones, give you your money's worth BUT you can achieve stuff even if you go to a public school. Learning is about you. The external factors are trivial enough to the point where you can overshadow them.
In my opinion, mind you, it depends on 1: What state you live in if you're living in America, and 2: How big your school is. When I began in my schooling, i was in a pretty good school that was somewhat small and was with two townships. It was after I finished 4th grade in 2008 when I moved to where I live now, which was the next town over, just fifteen minutes away where I lived before. The school i graduated from was way better than my previous school, and was bigger as well. I was lucky because there's a big mall in the same township as my school and the School Taxes were not even high because of that. As I live in New York, I do believe that I was lucky on the education forefront. and yes, it was a public school. My mom had an, ahem, joyful experience of going to a private Catholic school, though she really didn't have a choice because she lived in the city and my great grandmother had a hand in it too.
I went to a Dutch public school, but that is kinda where all the comparisons stopped with normal public schools. I went t a Dalton-school, one that prided itself on student-selfawareness. We had a lot of freedom to do as we pleased and could get away with a whole lot of stuff that I am sure couldn't happen at any other school. For me it worked, I needed the freedom to work on what I needed help with and could just dump courses like English, which I am highly advanced at, on the wayside for a bit to focus on things like math and the sciences. Overal we do have a good standard of quality for the teachers and they really know their stuff, so that was never the problem. Knowing how to handle a bunch of teens that were used to be able to work at their own pace, wasn't for everyone.
