Power Of Education In Education

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

Having education doesn 't automatically make you intelligent, nor does it measure your competency. However, in today 's society, having a degree is very important for getting a good job and making money, but it does not mean that earning a degree makes you knowledgeable. In the article Importance of Education states, “Education plays a vital role in your success in the personal growth. The more you have knowledge the more you grow” (Importance of Education). If schools are supposed to help are personal growth through school. Then why do so many student lose interest in finding who they want to become or question why they are here in the first place. In the documentary movie War on Kids, Morgan Emrich a public school teacher states, “they’re taught to hate reading by being forced to read stuff that they don 't want to. It 's really rare for a kid in school to be able to choose a book that they want to read and read it” (War on Kids). As students we get force to learn what is require in order to go from one grade to another. We also get tested to see the school academic level or need to pass a standardized test in order to graduate.

Rather than creating a world filled with the most creative and independent thinkers, the crippling educational system that has been implemented by society over the years focuses on producing ‘mindless consumers and employees’. According to an article written by John Taylor Gatto, Against School, the flaws in a modern ‘compulsory’ school system that have dramatic effects on the student body and faculty. The passing blame between teacher and student are said to be results of the decreased salaries and mindless lesson plans leading to busywork for hours. The author states that as a society “ We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women.” (Gatto,5) The devastating decline in the quality of our educational system has encouraged this upcoming generation to not think at all for themselves or the effects their actions may have on others.

Generally, there has been agreement that we as a civilized society educate young people for a single reason: to enlighten. According to James Baldwin, an influential writer and figure during the mid-twentieth century, education is the ability to “create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions... to decide for himself whether or not there is a God in heaven or not” (Baldwin 124). Public education in America grew out of the vision that everyone deserved the right to be educated and have the ability to contribute to society. However, the beginning of the industrial revolution drove potential students out of the classroom and into the factories and farms in great numbers. By the mid-1800s the philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the need for change and suggested that the purpose of education should be to nurture the natural genius that resides deep in the uneducated souls of adolescents. The search for that individual genius became a trial. Students felt the unshakable need to find their niche and succeed as they’ve been told they would have to in order to thrive in a materialistic society where all that matters is how much money a person can make. The conflict begins when students begin to believe that all they’re being taught is the value of money rather than personal growth.

Society has taught us all that in order for us to succeed in life or to someday amount to anything we must have an education first. This world is operated by so many educated and smart people but would they agree that school is the reason as to why they’ve become so successful? Throughout the years we acquire how to peruse, calculate and write but these are not the only essentials in life. As John Taylor Gatto once said, “Once you understand the logic behind modern schooling, its tricks and traps are fairly easy to avoid….. teach your own to think critically and independently” (Gatto 38). In other words, our current school systems are not teaching us as individuals but as categories. As we are tested and divided due to scores on test which pick and choose where we rank within the system. In my opinion, education should enable students to work together but also build up their own interests, empathy and the path towards knowledge of auspicious activity.

The fact is, that there is so much more than just one type of intelligence. While school make you more academically intelligent, it can teach you physics, algebra, calculus, etc… It is diminishing the students creative intelligence. It is teaching them to think a certain way, to go down a certain path in life, go to high school, get a degree, find a stable job, and if you don't do that, you won't be successful. And if that is true, how would for example Donald J Trump be president of the United States of America today? How did he a businessman with no political experience, become president?

Many high school students graduate with the idea and the pressure to attend college to obtain a degree in a field of their choosing in order to land a job that will earn them enough money to make them successful. Statistically 70% of student that enters college never finish. Why do so many not finish college? What is the point of getting an education? What is an education? Education by the government funded and endorsed schools are centers of learning devoted to intellectual mental stimulus. The self-centered or student-center of government run schools may teach politically correctness, but leave the students with very little to hope for as the feeling of self-gratification runs out and they are left with nothing but an empty house full of pointless and trivial materialistic products of the here and now. Many young adults find themselves facing life’s obstacle with improper tools to complete college or succeed. Government run schools teach children the basic fundamentals of English(reading and writing), mathematics, science, and the occasional liberal arts, but what about the moral and ethical values, such as discipline and integrity? Where is the educated man or woman who is a self-controlled thinker that can decipher the differences between truth and falsie? How to train the student to think? How to look beyond themselves? Through Classical Education students are being educated in the core subjects, but in also in the art of the Trivium and Quadrivium which not

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Albert Einstein saw it. Everyone else should too. There’s something wrong with schools today. Students are taught to listen, not to learn. They’re given assignments that they don’t find interesting, they’re told to write papers on topics they have no interest in, and they’re asked to take tests on material they couldn’t care less about. Students are failing classes, and dropping out of school. Instead of the schools being built to accommodate new students and new methods of teaching, students are “built” to accommodate the school’s old ways of teaching. In order to properly educate and inspire creativity in students, there must education that is tailored to meet the needs of every student individually.

“I will not let my school interfere with my education.” This line is famously known by the classic american literature author, Mark Twain. Isn’t it ironic? Clearly, schools are meant to teach children education, right? Even Albert Einstein, german scientist and a well developed symbol of a “genius” was a poor student. He disliked school, and just as he was planning to find a way to leave (at the age of 16) without hurting his chances for entering the university, his teacher expelled him because his bad attitude was affecting his classmates (Encyclopedia of World Biography). So why have so many brilliant people fallen behind or have a strong dislike for the standard brick and mortar school? It is because our school system still practices old industrial-style traditions rather than changing to keep up with the modern world. Our school systems today emphasise and misdirect irrelevent knowledge, practise outdated rules and learning techniques, fail to feed the full potential of students; neglecting to truly prepare students for their careers and the real world.

Education, is without a doubt, one of the most important necessity of life that everyone should be able to acquire. But what good do you get from an education that suppresses your abilities and talent for a letter grade? What good can you get from an education that doesn’t give you the chance to bloom into your prime and to pollinate your success to your posterities? Our education system, unsurprisingly, is a broken one. It was a system that was constructed over hundreds of years ago for a different age and a different societal construct. Our aged system needs to be dismantled and reconstructed into a whole new way that best fits this modern society and is caught up with our science. Fixing this system requires being reshaped into an engaging

Ever since I was young, I was told that education is the path to success. My father always told me that education will open more doors for me in the future and that I shouldn’t give up. Growing up as a student with English as my second language has been difficult in my educational life, although I comprehend the language sometimes there are some words that I am not yet familiar with, education has given me the ability to understand English.  My sponsor of interpreters club has told us, that being bilingual is a gift that we must take advantage of.

The American school system is absolutely broken. A product of terrible teachers and administrators, horrible districts, and our country’s inability to fix the inherent flaws of the system. We sit back as the youth of our proud nation spend their days in the factory we call “school.” Factory because schools are not designed to teach our children. These factories throw knowledge at the kids left and right. There are so many bits and pieces of information being hurled around at once. With the vast expanse of knowledge entering the minds of young people during the day, one would assume the child would rise to become “educated.” But the problem is, schooling by itself creates no intelligent people. Schools are designed to produce good members of

The world today is globally competitive and education is at the center of it all. John F. Kennedy, a former U.S. President, once stated, “A child miseducated is a child lost.” The importance of education has been hammered and embedded into our minds from the first day of school. We are constantly told education is the key to life. This is because education is “the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life (Dictionary.com).” Therefore, if a child is not educated at all or simply improperly educated than he or she has very little skill in judgment, wisdom, and reasoning. Without these skills it is difficult to be intellectually mature. In a society that is constantly changing and expanding there is much competition. In order to be a participant of change, children must be educated or they just simply become the watchers and not doers. The entire nation cannot all be watchers or the nation will fall. In order to be a successful accomplishing nation, it is crucial we are educated on different subjects of life or we

The question of should girls and boys be taught separately is a question that is constantly being discussed and the answer is no, they shouldn't. An obvious reason for coed teaching would be the lack of gender equality in America already, separating girls and boys would just be back-tracking all the hard work that both men and women have for worked for to have equality between genders. Another reason would be if schools taught males separate from females, the learning would be unbalanced, an article called “Should boys and girls be taught separately in our schools?” written by former teacher and a researcher at education think tank LKMco Ellie Mulcahy, states that “In 2016, 76% of psychology and 73% of English A-level entries came from girls. On the flip side, more than nine in 10 young people taking computing A-level are boys.” Students should be provided the same education to produce a more unbiased society.

for me as I was exceedingly curious about how the natural world worked. Even though I