Is Education A Good Thing?

Education should not only be looked at as attending college and passing exams to succeed in school. Nevertheless, it should be seen as the complete development of one's personality, intellectual development, and moral evolution. The system tells everyone to learn the same material, even if the students are bored and even if they’re sleeping during class. In the article “Against School”, John Taylor Gatto states, “teachers didn’t seem to know much about their subject and clearly weren’t interested in learning” (Gatto). This shows the teachers and the students disconnect from the context because either it’s irrelevant or not being taught in inspiring ways. I believe an educated person should at least have some background knowledge for a job

Yet even with these realizations that delve into the deeper meaning of education, modern education is still calling for simple measurable outcomes and continues to be geared towards specific employment ideas. This model of education is blatantly inadequate though. Many students today will end up holding jobs not yet invented in fields not yet discovered, so the teaching of answers to today’s questions is utterly useless. Albert Einstein once said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” and this statement reigns true throughout time. To continue academic success, the education system needs to impart a mastery of one’s own mind that allows students to not only answer current questions but also to pose questions that will shape the future world.

Some people might like education, others might dread it and really don’t see a reason to continue learning about it. Today, for teachers and professors it’s easy to them to tell how the education they teach is effective for an individual student. As we know, education is being taught at school, home, and a little of both. For America today, most children attend preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school, and college. Depending on the pupil's career choice, it can take up to 20 or more years completing their schooling system, Usually, during the middle and or high school years in America, professors teach you valid things pupils will be using in life.

However, this creative spirit is quickly lost as students progress through their years in education, where independent thought is second to memorization and repetition. While vocabulary quizzes are common, this expansive vocabulary is rarely utilized in creative writing but rather regurgitated on the SAT examination. Instead of exploring the ways math could be used in various careers that students might pursue, math classes require memorization of trigonometric angles. In ethics class, instead of presenting one’s own views and providing support for these views, a student is expected to simply repeat what was said in class, whether the student agrees with these opinions or not. However, anyone can simply repeat back previously provided information and duplicate past processes. Education should be about finding creative new solutions to problems in the world today and encouraging individual thought that will change the world in the future. In order to improve the world, it is necessary to think of new solutions to problems. Creativity is necessary to come up with these solutions, and by stifling creative thought in education, educators are also stifling progress in the world. The goal of education is to prepare students for the rest of life, and educators are obligated to encourage creativity in order to achieve this

The overall idea that keeping all the children in an age group doing the same repetitive and tedious work(memorization) destroys independent and creative thinking. The government programs put in place to help improve our educational dilemma are proving to be more of a problem than a solution. Programs such as No Child Left Behind and Common Core, force student to conform to a specific way of thinking and approaching any problem the same way as their classmates. The creativity and ingenuity found in discovering new ways of solving a problem are the main driving force of innovation and invention. Compounded on top of this is an overall lack of knowledge in a more common sense area of education. These include the inability of several high school students being unable to use simple tools like a hammer or even more simply know how to use even a

Today’s education system has become focused on standardized intelligence testing and what works best for the majority. This system, although created to help the masses, is impersonal and only benefits a specific group of students who learn the best through testing. Those students who think creatively and use imagination are left behind. This is why intelligence tests are not accurate measurement of a child’s knowledge as it does not account for creativity and the child’s individual strengths. Changes need to be made within the school system. Instead of focusing on what is “correct” schools should be encouraging problem-solving through the process of making mistakes and failing. This challenges a student to learn about themselves and the world around them. When everything is already laid out for them it is easy to follow. There is no single way of thinking. By making a student have to think on their own it stimulates creativity and allows them to better connect concepts to real world situations.

One of those interviewed for the film 21-Up answered a question saying “no formal education can prepare anyone for life.” Looking at the Sennet reading, how does this apply in our globalized, bureaucratic world?

Through elementary years of education, students often find school boring and a waste of time. Students wait for the day when they graduate from high school, only then to go on to college. As I progressed through high school; however, I learned that my education was what I made of it. When I put forth a full effort, I received the most out of my education, which was more than just factual knowledge. Receiving an education has an array of benefits, but it is up to us to find out what those benefits are. Everyone has his or her own take on what they believe education is and should be. Parents could think of it as a day care facility until you get to high school, and then they might think of it as a place to earn a degree and soon move out. Grandparents might think of it as a place where you go to learn things that you aren’t going to need in life because they never did. Political leaders may think of it as an economical advantage over another country. The problem in America is that the majority of citizens believe our education system is corrupt and not benefiting students. Sometimes people look at our education system solely through the eyes of their children. Nine times out of ten, the child will say it is useless and a waste of time. America has a solid education system, and it is vital for a child’s development. There are many purposes of education; it is more than one thing, but many things that combine into what education really is.

The day we took our first breath we were taught how to smile, laugh, walk and talk. Education is a big role in our everyday lives. Everything we know and do in our daily lives is from what we have been taught or learned to do. Responsibility, our Ethics, what career path we decide to dive into. Could you imagine what life would be like if our parents never pushed us to go to school? I am very fortunate to have a mother that is always pushing me to become a better version of myself. To shoot for the stars. To believe in myself, and to always get back up when being knocked down. Education is the key to life. You learn something new in everything you do. Whether it’s surfing the internet or getting your first job. If you don’t look to learn something then you’re going to end up going to a website you shouldn’t be on or getting fired from your job. If you just expect to skate through life rather than learn something from every lesson life throws at you. You’re not going to learn anything at all. What are you going to tell your future children? How will you afford to put a roof over their heads? Or food on the table? The bottom line is that if you want to exceed in life you need to push for a better Education.

I believe school is exceedingly important. In Mark Mathabane’s story Kaffir Boy it states, “I want you to go to school, because I believe that an education is the key you need to open up a new world and a new life for yourself, a world and life different from that of either your father’s or mine,” (78). This quotation is important to me because, I believe an education is key and you can change your whole life by having an education. An education will help you learn necessary skills for life. Such as, learning to build relationships. Building relationships is significant for any job. Many businesses will get referrals from happy customers that they have developed a relationship with.

Getting an education from a school for some reason is considered the ‘key’ to success. The key to our life goals and dream jobs, but why? We are letting a letter grade determine if we are smart or unintelligent regardless of any other acquired talent. Ralph Emerson states in “The Education” text, “the power of performance is worth more than knowledge.” This quote is extremely powerful because it can relate to a child. From day one, children are taught what to think and what they ‘need’ to learn. They are being brainwashed by these schools that should be called factories. Schools kill any sense of creativity and reasoning because kids and teenagers are so overpowered with a fear of failing and letting a letter grade decide what kind of student they are. Failing throws a label on our forehead and lowers self confidence all because test scores are so highly looked upon and all that people care about. Sooner or later, we are going to all be considered robots if we continue sitting on the conveyor belt in a factory. This path is leading us in an opposite way of

When I was younger, education was integrated into every part of my life. Even as I’m taking college classes now, school is still a priority. Today, society tells us that being well-educated is necessary. If you want to be successful and if you want to matter, you have to be well-educated. Society has used tools such as IQ tests, standardized tests in multiple levels of education, and set learning standards. However, education goes beyond statistics and rulings. A basic, universal truth of humanity is that everyone is different. However, society has such a skewered view of education that their demand is of a specific kind. Although the definition of being "well-educated" is dictated by tools such as test scores, society should look at a person 's overall intellectual evidence before judging their level of education.

Education is a necessity in this generation that is constantly changing behaviorally and academically. The answer to the question; whether education is a necessity or a benefit, education is required for most jobs and without an education; there is a slim chance at finding a job and making a living. Much debate is brought about different races and ethnic backgrounds that are attending college and their success in the workplace, how did one achieve such success with their background? Was their job handed to them because of the color of their skin?

1. Education has various implications. Given the fact that it provides a communication channel through which information is accumulated and knowledge is shared among members of a smaller or larger community, education is benefic for some and destructive for others. For instance, students and the young educated generation have started some of the most important revolutions in the history of human kind. One example in this sense is the Tiananmen Square Student Rebellion or the Arab Spring. In such cases, education has enabled the young generation to look beyond everyday realities and opened their eyes to new political and social perspectives. Education can be destructive especially if education is used as a means of propaganda. One example in this sense is the way in which the communist forces used education in schools and universities to determine a transformation of the ruling power into an idolatry figure or adapt history reports and perspectives to such an extent that it would serve the Party's objectives and own accounts of history and realities.

Imagine that one day someone asked you, “What is one of the most important things to have in one’s life.” Some people might say that it is to have a family, or to have money, or maybe even to have friends. While those may be key things to have to maintain a happy life they are not considered the most essential components to have in life. In all actuality though it has been said that the single most important thing to have in life is an education. The thing about getting an education is that it costs money, and one of the main ways to pay for a higher education in the United States is to take out student loans. Although student loans can be helpful in getting an education they can also be very burdening. Even as student debt is being seen as harmful to several individuals, there are people in the world that are benefitting from the acquiring of this unique type of debt.