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Over the centuries, education has changed based on the demands of the citizens during a specific time. As Americans become more informed (educated), their opinions, ideas, and thinking change. America’s expectations concerning public education have evolved as well. The demands that are placed on states, districts, and leadership are becoming more intense; yet, our culture still believes that public education is faltering.

Now may not be the time to remove this structure of education, but through progression and the acknowledgement of failing cogs in the system there will come a time when individual enlightenment and self motivation will reign over this system of force fed knowledge and the one size fits all, universal learning approach, because everyone is different and everyone has the right to find their own dreams. The public education system is unfair, wrong, and inefficient.

From the dawn of time, education has been the past's greatest utility in survival. Through learning, skills that have been passed down from the errors of others, communities were able to learn and grow with each other. Simple public education systems began to pop up to educate the youth and the curious, and ever since the first school systems began there has been room for improvement. The largest reforms of the educational system began at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Over the course of many years, several things have changed, including technology, science, and people; however, our culture and idea of education have not. Some of these problems include teachers that are not being as valued as they should be and students who are changing both physically and mentally, but are still not being supported by our education system. The education system itself is also problematic as well, but it can be fixed with a change in our culture. Teachers and students are the base of the education system, and by not helping them, the system is not helping itself. Students are gaining new emotions and viewpoints, but the education system has had a hard time keeping up, even teachers are changing but are still undervalued.

Martin Fowler (2011) states that “For a certification to be useful, it needs a correlation with competence in the thing that it certifies.” According to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards “While teacher licensure systems set the basic requirements to teach in each state, completion of National Board Certification signifies that teachers have voluntarily gone much further. NBCTs have developed and demonstrated the advanced knowledge, skills and practices required of an outstanding educator.” (NBPTS website.) The NBTS further states that “Research shows that students of NBCTs outperform their peers in other classrooms. In achieving certification, you demonstrate that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to advance student learning and achievement.

Education over the years has changed drastically. Between the push for schools in the time of colonial American and the school reform starting in 1830, schools began to drastically improve over time. Both of these events from different time periods positively impacted areas of education, changing our world for the better. These impacts can still be felt in school systems today across the country.

By seeing the system as this we see contribute to the problem. How many educators have come into the field wanting to implement great changes to the flawed classist system that exists? How many of those educators have become burnt out and left? How many have simply given up on change and accepted the system that they are part of? If the answer is one it is too many.

Where exactly is the future of education heading? Older generations could look fondly back to their school years. Their schools were a place where one could receive an education and feel safe. Sadly, this is not the case nowadays. Students still can receive the same knowledge as before, but the atmosphere has changed. Where one is not exactly certain on how safe their

As the workforce progressed with machines, schools kept producing adults with limited skill development. Not to say students did not want to develop irreplaceable skill but rather the confines of the curriculum and the way the teachers presented it was (and is) key to students lack of adaptation in the workforce. Education has started to respond by incorporating more

I believe that education extends far beyond the classroom walls, and involves many more people than students and teachers. People should be learning wherever they go, and should continue learning long after they’ve graduated from high school or college. Education isn’t something that can be quantified with tests or report cards, but is instead something that people carry with them. It’s a survival pack for life, and some people are better equipped in certain areas than in others. People with a solid education are prepared for nearly anything, as they will be able to provide for their own physical, emotional, and aesthetic needs.

Education has survived a lot of different situations and periods of time. It has undergone times of prejudice and racism, where only certain people had access to education. It has survived in times of neglect, when governmental budgets seemed to delegate money everywhere else but education. In general, education has survived many different situations and has come out vastly improved and better overall. With the ever-growing industry of technology, corporal punishment being prohibited, and increasing opportunities for more people, it is hard not to see the positive changes.

The education system has been a controversial issue among educators. Requirements of school do not let student choose what they want to study for their future. It’s a big issue to force student study specific curriculums, which don’t help them improve, and what they like to create something. Educators choose a general system for education to all students which based on general knowledge. Intelligent or genius students have to be in that system of education, which doesn’t let them improve their creativity. Educators attempt to change that system to make it better, but their changing was not that great to be an example for the world. Also, did that change qualify education system to compete other systems or not? In some examples and

In this time of rapid change and increasing attention to education it is important that professional educators and others take a fresh look at the question, "Who Should Plan the Curriculum?" Today, the educated man is the central resource of society. The supply of such men and women available to each nation is the real measure of its economic, political and military potential. We are now undergoing the educational revolution because educated people are the capital of industrial society. Every chemist, every doctor, every engineer creates opportunity and need for more men who can apply knowledge and concepts( Hass, 1961).

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela. Without education, there is simply no telling of what this world would be like. There wouldn’t be doctors, lawyers, businesses etc. Life and everything around us would be fatuous. Schools and education give us a plan in life and help guide us. Throughout the years education has changed tremendously. It had its improvements throughout the decades, and it also has had its falters as well. Education in America is an issue in this country and it definitely needs to be tweaked and improved. Education is what makes us people who we are and what we will be. Nelson Mandela had it right, there is no weapon more powerful than education.

Education has changed in some aspects of how it is expected to be taught. In the past, during the race to the moon, education was to be taught narrowly in math, science and language arts. The mindset was to expand the amount of knowledge as far as necessary to become an engineer. The children who were smart enough, or motivated enough to do well in these subjects would become engineers while the rest were to take up smaller jobs such as fast food employees. The scale of knowledge was not very broad. In today’s world curriculum is to expand the knowledge of these few subjects to things such as performing arts and history.