Growing up, most of us know what we are going to be. Whether it be a dancer, a rocket scientist, or a police officer, we have an idea of what path we want our life to travel. As children these ideas have a wider variety because we are told that we can be anything we want. If this is true, then why should kids who want to be dancers and kids who want to be rocket scientists go through the exact same education system for 12 years (at least)? This brings up a large, controversial, problem within the education system, which deals with uniqueness among students and how they are treated as a mass, rather than as individuals. School is designed to prepare you for a successful life, but treats the students as if they will all end up the same. This
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Without school, we wouldn’t have rocket scientists, or engineers, or teachers for the schools. I’m solely focused on the originalities of different students and how they are treated. Each student is taught using the same educational pyramid, where math and science stand at the top as the most important, and art and music sit at the bottom. Most schools, kindergarten through high school, use this pyramid because, as Sir Ken Robinson said in his famous Ted Talk speech, “the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors.” Some may argue, but the fact is, he is right. We educate students as if they are the replacements of those who are teaching them. We don’t teach students based on their interests, or their motivations, we teach them what the current teachers are educated on, as if the goal of school is to pass down the same information from generation to generation. Why should one planning to become an engineer have to learn the history of Europe? Why should an artist have to know the chemical equation for boric acid? Those in charge tell students to strive to be what they want to be, but educate them as if they don’t have a choice. This makes the school system seem extremely bipolar when it comes to what they see as a successful and educated
Without school, we wouldn’t have rocket scientists, or engineers, or teachers for the schools. I’m solely focused on the originalities of different students and how they are treated. Each student is taught using the same educational pyramid, where math and science stand at the top as the most important, and art and music sit at the bottom. Most schools, kindergarten through high school, use this pyramid because, as Sir Ken Robinson said in his famous Ted Talk speech, “the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors.” Some may argue, but the fact is, he is right. We educate students as if they are the replacements of those who are teaching them. We don’t teach students based on their interests, or their motivations, we teach them what the current teachers are educated on, as if the goal of school is to pass down the same information from generation to generation. Why should one planning to become an engineer have to learn the history of Europe? Why should an artist have to know the chemical equation for boric acid? Those in charge tell students to strive to be what they want to be, but educate them as if they don’t have a choice. This makes the school system seem extremely bipolar when it comes to what they see as a successful and educated