Role of Education in todays world?

Question

THIS IS FOR AN ELOCUTION

Answer 1

Whether most educators want to admit it or not, the primary
role of education in the United States is *STILL* to socialize.
That is, it is the first real step out of the home for most kids
and remains where you learn social cues, how to ask people
out for dates and what not to do in the bathroom.

After that, it is responsible for passing on fundamental skills such
as basic math, reading and writing. That is, you learn to do
those things in school. School makes you do them, and makes
you repeat them and constantly re-enforces them.

After that, things get dicey. It is true that school will show you,
say, chemistry - but by the time you hit the working world where
chemistry is in use, the concepts turn out to be much murkier
than they are in high school. Rather, you are learning HOW
to learn. You are learning the terminology, the thought
processes behind how things were determined and how
disciplines inter-relate.

In a vanilla reading course, you'll be exposed to some of
the great works and be asked to expound on various
themes, not so much so that you know what the theme
of a particular book was, but to develop a critical mind to
be able to determine themes for yourself.

That is, by the time you hit high school, you really aren't
memorizing what they are teaching you, but rather using
the hoops they make you jump through to develop the
skills for critical thinking in whatever discipline you jump into.

In college, you BEGIN to actually do the stuff you might
do in the working world, but usually it is still emphasis on
developing models about how to think about problems.

Post graduate programs, especially as they connect to
research, actually deal with the real world in an academic
fashion, directly applying academic modeling to it. For
instance, in medical school ... you actually touch a human
body and make suggestions on how to improve health problems.

So...

Socialize
Impart fundamental skills (reading, writing, arithmetic)
Produce workable mental models for future use at work
Then MAYBE give you direct practical knowledge

There are, of course, some exceptions. Schools teach
shop and home economic classes which directly impart
useful skills. However, they give you just a taste.

There are entire academic institutions to give you direct
skills (e.g. technical colleges) - but given suitable back
ground in modeling, the actual skills are pretty easy to
pick up on-the-job. That is, a higher education generally
makes it possible to pick up the skills taught in technical schools
in days rather than months.

For instance, a basic knowledge of physics will make it
far easier to become an electrician (that is, it will take less
time acting as an apprentice) than learning it as a wrote skill.

There is a cost, however, to higher education... An MD
can expect to spend 17 years pre-graduate, 4 years
post graduate and then another 4 to 5 years apprenticing
(aka interning/residency). That's right: It takes 25 years
of education to produce a doctor.

The world has had mid-wifes now, for thousands of years
who have more practical knowledge about birthing children
than your intern obstetrician. A midwife's education will
have come as an apprenticeship to another midwife and
be extremely to-the-point. She'll know how - she may even
have seen more variation than a doctor will have, but she
won't know why and she won't be able to predict outside
of her direct experience.

Answer 2

Now see. if I didn't watch Star Trek I never would have known elocution... but I do know thanks to Locutus of Borg (when the Borg captured Jean Luc Picard). I looked it up back then. Can the education system do as well? I doubt it. Today's education is hung up on "feelings" and not actually teaching. 2+2=5 How does that make you feel? Because the answer is wrong we cannot critisize Johnny for his error, it would hurt his self esteem. Get back to the three Rs. Reading, 'riting and 'rithmatic.
Have a great day!!!

Answer 3

... yah, what's an elocution?
and education in the world... to my family and me, it's everything... literally everything. And if you go out into the world with only a highschool diploma... you're just screwed. the world is developing, and the needs are changing... MOVE WITH IT! WOOO.

Answer 4

education in America™ is a joke, all school is nowadays (if YOU don't chose your own curriculum) is a place for your kids to go and learn what to buy and where to shop. (and that's only from their friends.) Teachers are underpaid and overworked and the surrounding fast food industries suck all the money from the schools. The vending machines suck in hundreds of dollars a day but the schools see almost none of it, and the contract signed says the schools can't earn their own money by selling any other beverages.
just remember to drink coke™ : the official sponser of education

Answer 5

The role of education is to give you the appropriate knowledge you wanted. You will need to choose wisely what kind of education you wanted, what suit you the best. Otherwise, you may ended up suffering.

Answer 6

what's an elocution?

Answer 7

education is minimal. parents would rather pay lower taxes than dish out for their kids education. parents pay more for inmates than they do for their own kids. this day and age, whatever is the cheapest is the best answer for them.

Answer 8

well it would seem that its getting more and more 1984ish, less emphasis on educating and more emphasis on training people to do work