My theory on Education
 

The more I learn the more I realize that what is truly at the bottom of our troubles in this country is our educational system. You can't make good decisions later in life if you don't have a solid education.
I also think that there are several things that should be taught in schools that are not. Things like critical thinking, risk assessment and logical thinking. These are skills that a person needs to get through their lives! With out them you could say that people only live half the life they could have had.

It's a shame that all schools are not created equally. I talk to people now about high school and it seems like they were from another planet. I went to a suburban school where all my friends went to the "big city" school. We had better teachers, buildings, academic achievement, and fewer drop outs. Of course it all comes down to my little suburb was willing to pump far more money into the school than the "big city".
Now, not to sounds like my 11 year old, but thats not fair!
It's not that your are turning out a bunch of potato heads (maybe not all kids are potato heads but an alarming percentage are) but you are also unleashing a whole new generation of adults who don't know left from right. Seriously...
So is it just me?

Of course our education system sucks, it's run by morons!

Then again, did you have any finance classes? No, save that for college because obviously kids in hs don't have money and they never will...

"I never let school interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

They should force you to learn a trade before graduating.

stop focusing on bullshit math, the jews, science you will never use,

teach kids real life skills, if you need extra math or science you will learn it in college.

this way you at least leave school with SOMETHING that you can fall back on.

Stop focusing on science? Your kidding me right? It's that kind of thinking that has allowed us to fall so far behind when it comes to scientific advancements. There is a reason that there is (or is supposed to be) required classes. If you have no knowledge of basic science how in the hell can you make a thoughtful decision regarding things like stem cell research?

there is only a handful of gifted students who are going to be using science for stem cell research. have special programs for those students.

what the hell are the majority of the students going to do with advanced biology? nothing, dropout, work at mcdonalds, sell drugs or live on welfare. great solutions. you see i live in a REAL WORLD.

here you talk about equality in schools then you expect schools to somehow to be teaching kids in the ghetto stem cell research? come on now, i love how some of you people live in a fairytale world how we have the resources to make everyone doctors, guess what it is not happening.

i love how you totally missed my point and quoted a single piece.

For one I never said teach them stem cell research. I said they need the basic science classes they are supposed to be teaching so they have at least a basic understanding of what's really going on with things like stem cell research and cloning.
I got your point about teaching a trade and I don't disagree with it. What I have a problem is that your post came off as if you think that kids shouldn't bother to learn advanced math or sciences. That I think is a shame. If those classes aren't taught in schools where will our scientists come from, some other country??
My whole point is that the schools should be equal. I should be able to get the same education in Beverly Hills that they do in a ghetto. Education isn't a right in the country, its a requirement. If you want to talk about how you fund it, fine cut some of the fat off the defense budget that ought to pay for it.

i never said dont teach it i said cut the bullshit out of it, teach the basics and teach it compared to real life, i dont remember a textbook ever teaching me anything after probably grade 7.

learn it in university or set up advanced courses for gifted students,
teaching them basic textbook crap also holds back students who are gifted.

i dont live in america but education is a problem everywhere. i personally see the trades option as best, education is supposed to be about giving people options for the future, teaching me something that 95% of students will also not use is not going to do that.

i know sooo many people who left high school without learning a single thing and that includes my friends who are finished university.

The only important thing that education gives us is that simple-white-paper called diploma that makes us look educated when facing other people when getting a job.

So true that teachings varies from region to region. It always depends on the teacher's values. Though they may have the same curriculum as the schools use to, it always boils down to how teachers teach it to their students. :)

The education system sucks, no doubt about it but at the same time there are more people with secondary education than ever before. Just a couple generations ago it was rare to go beyond high school, many never even completed high school.

Education begins with getting the student interested in being educated, imho.

Learning things is a mental and perhaps even spiritual journey of the student. It's supposed to transcend mundane vocational tasks and give the individual a heightened sense of enlightenment... which can be applied to any number of tasks in life.

If the student isn't receiving it in such a fashion, the experience is lessened, I think.

One of the most educational things you can read about education.

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Il...ing/intro.html

How about teaching how to cook your own healthy meals and how to balance a checkbook.

If you think "creating equal schools" will help you miss the point entirely.

The STUDENTS are what is not equal, the facility has little to do with it.

You people really should take the time and read some REAL THEORY on the subject.

http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Il...ing/chap2.html

I am for homeschooling and do not support public education etc...