Conrad Puleio: education in Americaâ„¢ 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 cokeâ„¢ : the official sponser of education...Show more
Marvella Benward: Whether most educators want to admit it or not, the primaryrole of education in the United States is *STILL* to socialize.That is, it is the first real step out of the home for most kidsand remains where you learn social cues, how to ask peopleout for dates and what not to do in the bathroom.After that, it is responsible for passing on fundamental ! skills suchas basic math, reading and writing. That is, you learn to dothose things in school. School makes you do them, and makesyou 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 wherechemistry is in use, the concepts turn out to be much murkierthan they are in high school. Rather, you are learning HOWto learn. You are learning the terminology, the thoughtprocesses behind how things were determined and howdisciplines inter-relate.In a vanilla reading course, you'll be exposed to some ofthe great works and be asked to expound on variousthemes, not so much so that you know what the themeof a particular book was, but to develop a critical mind tobe able to determine themes for yourself.That is, by the time you hit high school, you really aren'tmemorizing what they are teaching you, but rather usingthe hoops they make you jump through to develop thes! kills for critical thinking in whatever discipline you jump in! to.In college, you BEGIN to actually do the stuff you mightdo in the working world, but usually it is still emphasis ondeveloping models about how to think about problems.Post graduate programs, especially as they connect toresearch, actually deal with the real world in an academicfashion, directly applying academic modeling to it. Forinstance, in medical school ... you actually touch a humanbody and make suggestions on how to improve health problems.So...SocializeImpart fundamental skills (reading, writing, arithmetic)Produce workable mental models for future use at workThen MAYBE give you direct practical knowledgeThere are, of course, some exceptions. Schools teachshop and home economic classes which directly impartuseful skills. However, they give you just a taste.There are entire academic institutions to give you directskills (e.g. technical colleges) - but given suitable background in modeling, the actual skills are pretty easy topick up on-the-job. That is, a hig! her education generallymakes it possible to pick up the skills taught in technical schoolsin days rather than months.For instance, a basic knowledge of physics will make itfar easier to become an electrician (that is, it will take lesstime acting as an apprentice) than learning it as a wrote skill.There is a cost, however, to higher education... An MDcan expect to spend 17 years pre-graduate, 4 yearspost graduate and then another 4 to 5 years apprenticing(aka interning/residency). That's right: It takes 25 yearsof education to produce a doctor.The world has had mid-wifes now, for thousands of yearswho have more practical knowledge about birthing childrenthan your intern obstetrician. A midwife's education willhave come as an apprenticeship to another midwife andbe extremely to-the-point. She'll know how - she may evenhave seen more variation than a doctor will have, but shewon't know why and she won't be able to predict outsideof her direct experience....Show more
Kirk Coolbeth: 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.
Romeo Tinnea: 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.
Arlen Lopiccalo: ... 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.
Danyell Rowback: well it would seem that its getting more and more 1984ish, less emphasis on educating and more emphasis on training people to do work
Joaquin Dronko: 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!!!...Show more
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