An education is a vital part of the world. The need for schooling has been around since the earliest days of humanity. It is in the human’s basic programming to study and discover. Although the need for an education is obvious; the most effective practice of schooling is not. Countries around the world are constantly trying to decide what is the best method to instruct the new generations. How primary education is handled in the U.S. has ebbed and flowed along with every new discovery and change. Some new ideas include: more group based learning, helping kids to find many different answers, and testing plus feedback.
In the early days of school only a select few had access to an education. Within most societies, only those at the top of the social pyramid had access to a formal education. The majority of people occupied the bottom of the ranking. They did not read and were hardly able to speak. Philosophers and other scholars noticed that this was stopping human advancement so they began teaching the …show more content…
More students are attending college than ever before. In fact, the expectation for recent high-school graduates is that they go to college. Plenty of businesses will not even hire people without a degree. This is another area of the debate on education: is college really a necessity for everybody 's future? Charles Murray in his article “Are Too Many People Going to College?” suggests that it is not. He writes that saying ‘too many people are going to college’ is not the same as saying that the average student does not need to know about history, science, [etc.]...... They do need to know---and to know more than they are currently learning. So let’s teach it to them, but let’s not wait for college to do it” (225). Meaning, that is is fundamental to give a full education to every person but college is not the place to do teach such things. Educators should be offering a more sufficient education at the elementary
In the early days of school only a select few had access to an education. Within most societies, only those at the top of the social pyramid had access to a formal education. The majority of people occupied the bottom of the ranking. They did not read and were hardly able to speak. Philosophers and other scholars noticed that this was stopping human advancement so they began teaching the …show more content…
More students are attending college than ever before. In fact, the expectation for recent high-school graduates is that they go to college. Plenty of businesses will not even hire people without a degree. This is another area of the debate on education: is college really a necessity for everybody 's future? Charles Murray in his article “Are Too Many People Going to College?” suggests that it is not. He writes that saying ‘too many people are going to college’ is not the same as saying that the average student does not need to know about history, science, [etc.]...... They do need to know---and to know more than they are currently learning. So let’s teach it to them, but let’s not wait for college to do it” (225). Meaning, that is is fundamental to give a full education to every person but college is not the place to do teach such things. Educators should be offering a more sufficient education at the elementary