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Edited by II Smiggles II: 9/17/2015 1:27:09 PM
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The Education System Is Flawed but How can We Fix it?

It’s been proven not only by regular ordinary people all over the world, but also seasoned scientists that we, as humans, desire to learn. We crave to absorb new discoveries, ideas, and experiences. We are, by nature, consumers. We also know that school is less than a pleasant experience. You’re forced to learn things you don’t always care about. The largest argument for this by educational directors and funding is that you will never know what a child will grow up to be and what knowledge they’ll need. It’s better and safer to give them a starter pack of a little bit of everything. However this is reliant on the idea that those who are not legal adults are not mature and developed enough to have the foresight for their future. Despite that, they are given minimal teachings on what actually goes on outside the protective bubbles of schools and the life it comes with at that time. While it certainly is a good idea, in concept, to teach budding young adults a sprinkle of the basics it’s come to our attention, through decades of learning, that you don’t have to force anyone to be taught. Humans are fascinatingly malleable creatures. Not only by those around them but by their own hand. You can teach yourself, and likely have, topics you’ve never even heard of before by the smallest clipping of a clue to what it is. That is, if it interests you. We’re conditioned to believe we need a teacher. That we, by any means, have to be fed carefully in order to understand the mental tools we require to learn from more advanced teachers. Children and young adults are given far less credit than they deserve when it comes to what their minds can do. [b]Do you believe if you were allowed to learn instead of forced you would enjoy school more? Do you believe there are ways to improve and make the education system more beneficial? How would you change it? [/b]

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  • I would support smaller assignments, more regularly, rather than an assignment/exam worth 30% of your grade, make it 10% and have at least one every couple of weeks. Large exams worth high percentages never give a good example of a students performance. Secondly, at the end of 9th grade (about 15 years old), students are sent out to work for a year, actual work. Employers will be subsidised for taking these students on for 3-4 months, students are encouraged to try a variety of careers (say; accountant, plumber and nurse) to get a feel for what they might like to do. finally, students cannot go straight from High School to University, gap years are mandatory with students again encouraged to perform some form of national service (though not penalised for not doing it should they wish to find private employment), this could be Military, Emergency Services, Government Healthcare or Charity work. This would likely create more rounded students with a better grasp of working life, and what it means to study. Finally, i would pay teachers much better, making the career of teaching more lucrative and encourage current teachers to continually develop themselves and perhaps consider returning to university to study a Postgraduate or Masters course (schools would be given funding to pay for these teachers)x I would also move teachers between schools regularly, especially between under-performing and over performing schools to try and ensure negative cultures do not develop.

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