America is the land of opportunity, it is the land of the free, however is America really the land of opportunity when It comes to education? Are we getting the true education that we all deserve? Are the teachers willing to help us to succeed in life? Are we as students ready to receive all that Is being taught to us? Education is being defined as the grasping of information and putting it into action throughout our life. In society today, people often think that America accomplishes what we call true education today. Throughout the duration of the time I have spent in America, I examined many children that did not turn out the way they should, I suppose it is not their fault, maybe it is the school system in America that turned them
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The countries that have the best educational system are the most developed countries in the world: The USA, and more developing countries have low progress in their educational system-Nigeria. According to Francine Prose “I know why the caged bird cannot read” she believed that the Unites States are losing what they should focus on with students when she specified that “In fact less and less attention is being paid to what has been written let alone how”(Prose 177). When I was in middle school - i was in 7th grade- we were always given a book to read, I did not want to ever read those books because my teachers would talk a lot about what the book is being didactic about, I wanted the teacher to talk about how the author wrote the book; the steps that he or she took in writing the book. I never got that from any from my teacher and that built me into never wanting to read any assigned book. I later noticed in Nigeria that before we would read a book the teacher would firstly talk about the importance of the book, they would also talk about how we need to think about the way the author is writing. I however don’t think that that is the only problem that the American school system is facing today, another problem is that students in America “despise dead writers”(Prose 181). Being in America for almost 7 years I have learned to hate old writers, why is this? You may ask. After I found …show more content…
America and other countries in the world have various types of schooling system based on their culture and the mentality the country grew in. I had had the opportunity to experience both systems and I think, based on my culture that the American system is the best system ever. Although they both have the negative and positive aspects, but the American education serves the goals of what we call “true education” because they have many opportunities and resources to ensure that we all succeed. Other countries also have a positive part; they teach their students to respect their teacher. However all of this that I have been talking about also depends on the students themselves, they have their education in their hands. They have the power to pay attention in class to succeed and to have the “freedom”(Wallace 235).t live in the “real world”(Kyoko 204), on the other side they can chose not to listen and learn and finish their education
The countries that have the best educational system are the most developed countries in the world: The USA, and more developing countries have low progress in their educational system-Nigeria. According to Francine Prose “I know why the caged bird cannot read” she believed that the Unites States are losing what they should focus on with students when she specified that “In fact less and less attention is being paid to what has been written let alone how”(Prose 177). When I was in middle school - i was in 7th grade- we were always given a book to read, I did not want to ever read those books because my teachers would talk a lot about what the book is being didactic about, I wanted the teacher to talk about how the author wrote the book; the steps that he or she took in writing the book. I never got that from any from my teacher and that built me into never wanting to read any assigned book. I later noticed in Nigeria that before we would read a book the teacher would firstly talk about the importance of the book, they would also talk about how we need to think about the way the author is writing. I however don’t think that that is the only problem that the American school system is facing today, another problem is that students in America “despise dead writers”(Prose 181). Being in America for almost 7 years I have learned to hate old writers, why is this? You may ask. After I found …show more content…
America and other countries in the world have various types of schooling system based on their culture and the mentality the country grew in. I had had the opportunity to experience both systems and I think, based on my culture that the American system is the best system ever. Although they both have the negative and positive aspects, but the American education serves the goals of what we call “true education” because they have many opportunities and resources to ensure that we all succeed. Other countries also have a positive part; they teach their students to respect their teacher. However all of this that I have been talking about also depends on the students themselves, they have their education in their hands. They have the power to pay attention in class to succeed and to have the “freedom”(Wallace 235).t live in the “real world”(Kyoko 204), on the other side they can chose not to listen and learn and finish their education