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Thursday, October 8, 2009

The Most Efficient Way of Education in My Eyes -- Responding to AGAINST SCHOOL

In the text, the author mentioned that a lot of kids regard public education as stupid and useless while they prefer to do something "real." However, it seems that they never consider about how can they do anything "real" if they don't even have the basic knowledge of the work they want to do. Currently, plenty of people have misunderstand the purpose of a teacher. From my point of view, a teacher is there to teach kids the theories of different subjects and some experience of doing works in real life, not directly lead them into the "real" work.
Against my opinion, some people may argue that the most efficient way of studying is to really do something rather than just sit down and listen to other people, because the experience of failure will teach students not to make the same mistake again. To some extent, I can't deny that this is true, but on the other hand, too much failure may destroy students' confidence which is quite a negative effect on their future.
Overall, it is absolutely wrong to say that public education is useless. Instead, we may consider that the education system nowadays is somehow not reasonable, which needed to be improved by adding some opportunity of practise doing the real work. In this case of combination both theory education and real experience, kids will feel more interesting when they study because they can have chance to attempt what they have learnt in the boring theory class.

1 comment:

  1. I agree that we do need to get kids in hands on experiance situations, and out of the class room. We as a society have let slide, boring out dated information in school systems. Not to say the boring information is not just as necessary, simply that, the need to retain information is so important that allowing it to be 'another days' lesson is a waste. We need a way to engage students as well as properly educate them. A process that has not, and may never be perfected.

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