Education is an interesting word, though I sincerely doubt that people stop learning when they stop their formal education. It's a shame that in todays society we think that an education is soemthing entertaining, not that it should be painful, but then again, life isn't like Sesame Street.
Better than a formal education is a well rounded eduaction on life, one that needs to be harvested by parents and society. The things I learned in college, besides those few things taught in classrooms, I couldn't have paid for somebody to teach me. The love of learning reflects the love of life, and anybody who wants to have a happy life better realize that the happiest people are those that are learning.
The problem is most of the time we are so focused on the test scores and the grades we get that we don't remember why they are there. Many times in life we look at the issues and try to find a cause and effect and we don't take in all of the fact but pass a pre judgement and go with that for the rest of our lives never knowing if we would have really studied it out we would have a completly different opinion. School shouldn't be about learning facts, it should be learning how to learn effectivly and learn for a lifetime. until that happens school is about pleasing a professor or teacher and not about learning something that will benefit you as someone who is in the workforce. This has been a philosophical moment brought to you by Robert de Ruyter.
America's Education system is basically a babysitting service while parents work all day. College is the only real education you'll find if you're looking to get in to some sort of career (like Engineering, Medicine, or Geology).
Its only a babysitting service is thats all you want to get out of it. I don't know about Utah's pulbic school system but if a student honestly wants to learn and put some damn energy into it then they can learn a thing or two. But, at the same time, if the kid wants to do enough just to get by.. then yes, it is very possible to sit in the back of the room and take a nap. Life lessons are often learned outside the classroom and these seem to be most valuible to people. But if you stop going to school at 8th grade then you'r life is going to be drastically different then if you were to graduate. Who wants to talk to an adult who has an 8th grade education? Maybe you can talk about the weather and how a certain sports team is doing but just about anything beyond that needs a educational background of some sorts. I'm not saying that you can't be smart unless you graduate high school and don't go to collge. But more likely then not, if you're a drop out then you aren't interested in learning.
Oh, and another thing; any student that wants to learn can easily do so in the walls of public schools (provided that all basic needs are being met outside of school). All of the public schools I attended were far from perfect, and I'm sure that they were overfilled, that the classes were too big, that the textbooks were several years old, and that not all of the teachers taught things the way they "ought" to. This being said, I would say I learned incredible amounts from techers that could perhaps be called second rate, and even more from those that were better, it's all in the mind of the student. If a student truly wants to learn, the student wouldn't even need school, but school is a powerful tool with vast resources to aid in the development of a productive member of society; one that tries to find quirks in the system to ficx, not just to complain about. Any student that wants to learn certainly has the resources to do so, but it's up to him/her to do so; and again, it's the responsiblilty of the parent to get that student
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i couldn't agree with you more. going to school for most of the day has done nothing for me but wear and stress me out...i feel like school is my main priority..and i feel that most of that time spent has been useless..i think everyday should revolve around our Lord..instead of our ability to gain knowledge and 'learn to live in the real world'..which alg. II isn't gonna help me live later..but only through real-life situations and learning experiences will i truly be able to live..and i find that Christ provides many opportunities to learn..and most of all ,to live.. Screw School. <3 Jenny
I agree...some things you just can't learn in a classroom; you've gotta experience them, learn how to analyze a situation, solve the problem, work w/ others of different backgrounds.
Hey...any chance I could take some of those pro-life hoodies off your hands? :-)
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Better than a formal education is a well rounded eduaction on life, one that needs to be harvested by parents and society. The things I learned in college, besides those few things taught in classrooms, I couldn't have paid for somebody to teach me. The love of learning reflects the love of life, and anybody who wants to have a happy life better realize that the happiest people are those that are learning.
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This has been a philosophical moment brought to you by Robert de Ruyter.
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Life lessons are often learned outside the classroom and these seem to be most valuible to people. But if you stop going to school at 8th grade then you'r life is going to be drastically different then if you were to graduate. Who wants to talk to an adult who has an 8th grade education? Maybe you can talk about the weather and how a certain sports team is doing but just about anything beyond that needs a educational background of some sorts. I'm not saying that you can't be smart unless you graduate high school and don't go to collge. But more likely then not, if you're a drop out then you aren't interested in learning.
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Screw School.
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Hey...any chance I could take some of those pro-life hoodies off your hands? :-)
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