The Importance Of Education In Education

Memorize, test, forget, and repeat are standard procedures for many students. With this structure, students do not have the opportunity to truly learn and process the information they are taught. Students cannot develop interests in varied subjects, which leads to there only being limited options for them in the future. The education system takes the focus off of the students’ futures and puts it on required courses and test scores. As a result, students are not given the opportunity to grow as people and develop interests in subjects other than math and reading. Schools only focus on a required curriculum, which diminishes students’ curiosity and does not allow them to explore subjects that they are interested in; therefore, schools do not produce well-rounded, educated citizens.

The third tenet is that school should have education that helps develop critical consciousness in their students, so that they are able to question social inequalities in the future. This includes exposing minority students to current discriminations through education, so that they can grow up and critique social inequalities, or by protecting themselves if they are minority students. To do this, teacher can engage students in social justice work, such as going to soup kitchens or helping the poor, so that they can gain personal experiences in dealing with social injustices (Morrison 442). One successful way of doing this is through allowing social issues to drive math instruction, so that students get to not only learn math calculation, but be exposed to social issues as well (Morrison 442). This is also supported in another reading, “And that’s just how it starts”: Teaching Mathematics and Developing Student Agency,” where Gutstein proved the success in using Math questions in developing cultural consciousness by exposing them to real-world mathematical projects. One of the projects involved students in understanding gentrification, by questioning students whether the developer should receive the city permission for paving a tiny park (Gutstein 428). In addition, students literally went downtown, to measure the distance of the park to downtown. At the end of Gutstein’s curriculum in Rivera, several of his students talked about the success of the programs, and how they

Education seems to be the only socially acceptable way to lower the world’s endlessly growing population. Other methods, such as financial incentives, have been debated but without any real seriousness to come up with working programs that won’t take advantage of people. Although it is important to see that these methods as opportunities to educate are becoming harder to come by. Education is only obtainable in places where there is some level of affluence and an established governmental foundation proficient of enforcing such a program. Ironically, the regions that are meant to be targeted are usually in a state that is inaccessible, impoverished, and economically fragile. So, since education is limited, and can only reach so far, other methods must be taken into consideration. An individual example of this would be to tax families that have more than two children. A business example would be to receive incentives such as tax cuts for installing solar panels on buildings.

Society has defined a single method that will potentially enable people to land a high paying job they may enjoy. This method consists of students going to a university straight out of high school. Ken Robinson has essentially claimed that the “misconception of education in high schools have taken a turn towards a mechanical process instead of a human system.” (Robinson) In this case, it provides the opportunity for a more diverse system that incorporates a broad and flexible curriculum. High schools must turn creativity in a standardization instead of an option. This would allow people to awaken their personal creativity skills and apply them to jobs and everyday life once out of school. This will benefit high schools because the dropout rate may decrease since students are developing skills through creative work being done. The Neoliberal Arts claimed that education is changing and it’s not for the better, “College is seldom about thinking and learning anymore.” (Neoliberal) This may be because career focus is based on money over learning, which some colleges strive more towards. The Neoliberal Arts article also mentioned STEM education and whether or not it is following its responsibilities. It seems this particular education is only focusing on the Technology/Engineering aspect and not the Math/Science. This can be related to the 60% dropout rating that Ken Robinson’s TED TALK stated since math and science classroom may not be emphasized as much as it needs to be.

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“When we think about what it is to be ‘connected,’ we think about memory. We think about history. We think about storytelling. All of these words that we hear—‘literacy,’ ‘inclusion,’ ‘diversity’—those are all words for connection . We need that sense of connection. We need to live in a global sense.” This is one of many important quotes from personal hero Miriam Wright Edelman. Founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund and an advocate for all children and their families regardless of race or culture, Marian Wright Edelman, goes on to say, “we must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.” (Siegel, 1995) Transforming movement has been taking place in the area of professional education or development, however, honoring the learning from our educational system through the anthropological lens creates the best environment possible for school cultures and in turn, our society.

Schools are not Teaching what is Necessary for Students to Succeed Outside of the Classroom

Whether you are the wealthy, poor, or middle class, consider the many things that you have acquired in your lifetime. For example, accomplishments that can be attributed to you, money in your bank account, your home, your career, but most importantly your family and especially your children. Deciding to have these children brings a great responsibility to make multiple choices and decisions throughout their young lives, but deciding the basis of their educational journey is one of the most important. In today’s society, the choice of public school and homeschool is a major decision; but is one better than the other? Furthermore, what are the desirable and undesirable aspects of each of these?

George Mombiot pulls few punches when talking about the modern educational system and its pitfalls. In Monbiot’s eyes it is a “defying dehumanising system” (2017, para 7) that inevitably leads to the end of creativity and natural, child-like curiosities; both are things Monbiot believes should be focused on and encouraged, a point that many people agree with, but few have acted on. There are schools and individuals making significant strides in changing the way curriculum is administered, but a large-scale implementation seems like a long way off. Bigger issues remain regarding the fundamentals of our current system that need to be addressed before we try and move on from it. We can not simply abandon the basics in favour of specialized education; we need to find a balance.

I used to work with children with IDD, doing in home school building. I think that children with learning disabilities can be mainstreamed with standard classes and should not be at certain times of their schooling process. I feel it is a great idea to have separate classes and allow the child with a IDD additional consideration, such as due date modifications and extra time on test. I feel it is important to give children growing up what they need in order succeed in the world, and giving that child extra time to grasp and learn information can work out for the best. I strongly feel, the only time that children with a learning disability should be mainstreamed with a standard class, if they are showing tremendous progress in remedial classes and displays that they can uphold the same responsibilities as the other children in the standard class. It is not a smart thing to just mainstream these two types of classes together, because it runs the risk of creating other issues in their lives and academic failures, it needs to be a smooth transition from one type of learning to the next.

56% which averages out about to 42,168,580 people of the world's population that are bilingual know the language English, however, out of that percentage, only 15% of them spoke English as their first language (Nemeth, 2017). Most of those people didn’t learn a language at the younger age when it’s a lot more simple as your brain was still developing. However, still today they don’t have bilingual in your average younger aged classroom when it can be used as a learning tool. One of the solutions that can help fix this is to start teaching the most common languages at the younger age. To do this though you would have to also add in the requirement of having teachers at the younger group level be bilingual. This can take time though, so in the meantime to put things in motion signs and materials can start to be used to help introduce different languages to children. Another is that lots of countries today are becoming more advanced in the language department at the younger age and eventually United States citizens are going to fall behind. There is the reasons that dispute this, as with the changing of the curriculum, you also need to have parents on board with it as well. The reason they might be is that of the price for certain things. Mostly today children that have a type of language lesson in their life have parents that are either paying for a more expensive school or videos and tools to use at home. Meaning adding it to everyday life does run into the possibility of

George Washington stated, “The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail” (Educational Quotes from our Founding Fathers, Tilus). Most schools have an education mission statement that usually talk about a goal of preparing students for a mix of lifeline success, citizenship, college, and careers. Although many schools have great education, as a whole, schools are failing to teach kids character by failing to teach morality. Instead, the American education system bases the education off standardized testing. There must be a revolution in education from moral relativism to Judeo-Christian values in order for the next generation to receive the full benefit of education.

First class of the day is genetics at 8:00 am, still waking up, I sit in my chair and listen as the professor drones on and on about DNA and other things I wont remember after class today. After two hours of genetics I have five minutes to run from one class to another. Now I sit in my chair, in a different class, and listen to another professor lecture for another two hours. My hand begins to cramp up from all the note taking, and I feel even more tired than I did at 8:00 am. My day isn't over yet, I still have to try and keep my eyes from closing as my math teacher goes on about shapes or multiplication or something math related. A full day of school down and I am left with more questions than answers. I feel like I know less now, than I did when I came to school this morning.

Classrooms today are diverse and multicultural, and children bring different forms of Englishes into the classroom, such as Spanglish, Chinglish, or Singlish (Crystal, 2013). Therefore, many students are bilingual, whereby they speak their birth language at home and Standard English at school (Ewing, Callow & Rushton, 2016). Most often, aboriginal children from remote communities learn Aboriginal English at home and have a range of experiences based on cultural and family believes (Loanne & Muir, 2017). Furthermore, bi-directional relationships and past experiences such as culture, family, geographic or socio-economic status (SES) all influence students' learning and development (Ewing, 2013; Gardner, 2017d; O'Donnell et al., 2016). Therefore, teachers need to use a two-way learning approach in the classroom to link all students' cultural heritage and home language to literacy. Equally, curriculum needs to be culturally cohesive to help bridge the learning gap amongst the students (Ewing, 2013; Thomson, 2002). Furthermore, the classroom Discourse needs to make students feel they belong, which helps build students' self-confidence, self-efficiency, and self-identity (Green, 2006; Malaguzzi, 1993). Teachers must ensure language used, class tasks and textual resources are relevant and diverse to meet the diverse range of learners in the class. For example, teachers introducing a wide variety of texts, magazines, images with a variety of dialects and sociolects help make

“Give me a minute,” that is all it takes to save a person’s life. Annually, stress kills approximately 110 million people, which is equivalent to seven deaths every two seconds. In a manner of seconds we could save plentiful lives. Compare to other countries, the United States stand in the medium to high range of stress and only stands 20th place out of 35 industrialized countries for education. Countries like Finland, Japan, and South Korea stand in the top rank of the world for their education and still continue to improve exponentially, while the United States isn’t trying as hard enough. The reasons behind it is the tremendous amount of homework, the pressure of standardized testing and the requirements they have abide to. This undesirable education system hinders the students with stress and affects their test score, which causes the United States to be in 20th place. The students desire for an education that will benefit them and changing in criteria such as limited standardized testing, lessen the tremendous amount of homework and changing the schedule.