is our education system is right?

Answer 1

I am going to go against everyone else's answer and say yes.

hear me out.

My comments will be limited to the US educational system, as this is what I know best. We do have some issues. High school drop outs, achievement gap, issues dealing with class and race, placement of quality teachers, keeping new teachers within the profession. I cannot deny these items.

We do however teach EVERY child. Name a system in place that is successful down to each and every individual? Name a system in place that even tries for that? In education - that is our goal.

The 39th annual PDK/Gallup poll had some interesting findings. 36% of respondents gave their local schools the best possible grade. 45% rated them an A or a B. When asked to grade other communities schools only 2% gave them the highest grade, 16% A or B. It seems perception is a problem (just look at your other answers) How can your schools be the best while everyone elses are horrible>? yet this is the common idea.

Here are some other positive findings: 60/50% students leave prepared for college/skilled jobs. 63% schools provide good/excellent education for high achievers.

We as a nation employ 1 million lawyers, 1.4 million engineers, 700k physicians and surgeons, and 4 million teachers. Every single person who fills a job went through the educational system, warts and all.

Education is such a personal thing. YOU have to decide to continue your studies. you have to decide how far to take yourself. The system, the individual teachers, the single schools try and push, but ultimately the decision rests on every single student. The education system takes dings for items often not in our control. The decision to stop going to school is entirely decided by that student, reasons being completely out of the control of anyone but that student. Who gets the blame? school systems. You and I cannot make an adult get that degree. Social issues, Societal issues or just plain life make such decisions life changing. How unfair to peg it on the school.

We (educators) teach every child who walks in our doors, and often we are also given the blame for everything that happens. I don't mind because thats what I signed up for. While I do not get a ton of credit publicly, The few times I have had adults walk through my classroom door thanking me for something that happened when they were kids makes it all worth it.

We still have a system set up to educate EVERY child. You can take that system all the way to a doctorate. The US is the world leader in tons of areas. Our higher education system has some of the best institutions in the world. When I see my former students (from urban, overcrowded downtown Los Angeles) attending MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford, Yale and UCLA, Id say our educational system is right for them.

Answer 2

The gradual erosion of the standards of education is somewhat of a vicious circle. Bad education produces bad teachers which produces poorly educated kids and so on and so forth.
The days when teaching was a vocation are over. When I was a kid (I'm 50 now) my teachers were committed to their job, entertaining whilst teaching and had control of the class.
When I look at the environment in which my kids were educated I see that very few teachers reach anywhere near that standard. They see teaching as a job. Additionally I notice an ever-growing "my kid, right or wrong" attitude among parents where parents won't accept they have a naughty child. It's not uncommon for teachers to receive a good thumping for pulling a child up for behaving badly. Not good for teacher morale.

Answer 3

No, it is up the left.

Children with difficulties do not receive adequate help.
Bright sparks are held back, to fit in with the curriculum.
Kids develop at different paces and should not be forced into age based moulds.

Let children learn to read at two, or wait until they are older; but do not treat them like clones on an assembly line.

My kids are totally different from each other. Children need to be treated as individuals.

Northern Ireland is losing out with the end of the 11 plus. My son is among the kids who will be the first not to sit it. And what has replaced it? Total Chaos.

Answer 4

No. This is because right from the beginning we have different types of schools catering to different strata of people of this country. Children grow up either with an inferior or superiority complex and this keeps our country divided for ever. Added, we have very strong political interferences in the education which is causing further disparity when children grow up. Forcing children to learn a regional language more out of the diktat from the local satraps and not out of liking / need also causes psychological damage particularly for children whose parents get transfered in their jobs.

Answer 5

No, Since many schools are given lots of financial resources, while other ones get little, and wind up becoming ghetto schools which are drug havens... Equal financial support equals better schools.

Answer 6

ofcourse not....i m doin engineering n all i m doin is mug my books n puke them in the paper....i dont knw nythin an engineer is supposed to knw....but still i m sure tht i will b better of than nyone else....indian education systm mayb b old but the best engineers n doctors r produced....so cheers!!!:)

Answer 7

is our education system is right? <<< I guess not.

Answer 8

No, Its should be encourage the students Knowledge, Not to create them as a book warm

Answer 9

there is no fool proof method . but present system is not good. it must be reviewed and revamped

Answer 10

it may not be right, but it is what is left