Education Systems And Individuality
Having tutored a few kids lately, it is painfully obvious we are not giving our children everything they need in order to fulfill them.
Can you imagine our future, our tomorrow? These children going to school today will provide for us tomorrow. Yet, they are not given everything they need in order to fulfill themselves and grow into integrated society citizens by choosing the professions they are best suited for. Instead, they are being forced into industry segments in order to answer corporation’s needs. It should be the other way around.
I think there are a few problems, mostly priorities not set straight. In a perfect catch 22 vicious cycle, we want a lot of engineers and technicians for tomorrow in order to produce more. However, by pushing too many kids in these directions, and sometimes many of them who would excel in other professions, we are forcing them into a path that is not theirs. They will not be happy and certainly will not a positive part of our society doing things where their hearts are not into it.
By spending more on military then on education we are sabotaging our own future to defend ourselves if need be. We need highly trained students who choose these industry segments to produce first, then we can better build defense mechanism, or at least a better balanced training to producing ratio.
As always, I feel it comes down to spending more on schools, less children per classes, better teacher training and mostly, let children chose what they are here on to do. In the meantime, what I see are 11 year olds who have no idea what a verb is and cannot even conjugate to be or to have in the present, simple past or simple future. That is a scary future… How about a coach in school for kids?
Posted: April 8th, 2008 under Education.