Previously I compared public education and Communism. The comparison was not good for either system, but there is good news - at least for public education. We have seen that in general the only way to "improve" Communism is to get rid of it - or hide the flaws as is sometimes done. On the other hand, there are ways to improve public education, and they don't require the ridiculous outlay of money for so-called "experts" with their generally tepid results. The not so good news is that it will require common sense and a backbone - both of which often seem sorely lacking in education.
One of the first steps would be to get rid of the "poor little kids" attitude that seems to pervade much of the system. In the past students were not coddled and provided with multitudinous excuses for why they didn't succeed. They were expected to get the job done - plain and simple. Yes, there are troubled homes, broken families, and other situations now, but these existed in the past. The problem, as I see it, is that the education system has turned these from challenges kids had to work through to excuses to do nothing. And the more excuses the system provides, the more kids will grab on to them in order to get by without working. Yes, there are those self-motivated kids who don't care what the challenges/excuses are, they are going to succeed. And there are those kids who are going to struggle no matter what, but those are frequently kids who have physical and/or mental challenges to deal with.
The kids I'm talking about are the ones whose parents either have no time to support them (although many kids in those situations still do quite well), or have consciously or unconsciously (subconsciously?) raised them to believe that the world owes them everything and they don't need to work for it. Believe me when I say that I have had more than enough of these kids in my classrooms in the past. And before you say it's just because I was not a good teacher, try asking any teacher about these kids. I can pretty much guarantee you that every public school teacher you talk to has had them. Some have more in their class, some have fewer, but they all have them.
Okay, so for now I'll let you digest this little diatribe before I toss another plateful your way. I have a bit more to say on this subject before I go on to another suggestion.
I think today is people have money then they can take good education and they can get good rank. I mean education is fix and government have to do something for that.
Posted by: business programs | July 26, 2011 at 02:57 AM