Education matters

     

  Once Oscar Wilde said: “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” I subscribe to this theory because people live while they're studying. In modern society to get an education is not a problem. 

    Mostly everyone has an access to education and can get it not only in a childhood, but also can return to education at any age. However, nowadays we can notice substantial problems in educational system. Honestly think, nevertheless is it a primary education, higher or private education, most of the standards of education are from the old school. For instance, children are taught to be straight A students, so in pursuit of good marks they start have their nose in a book, burn the midnight oil, cram and learn everything by heart. Other becomes a teacher's pet in order to get a place on a Honor Roll. Those who are not such eager beavers, bookworms or just do not have unusual intelligence and mental agility start drop out of school or play truant. It is my firm conviction, modern educational institutions need significant changes. Moreover, such distinguished scholars as Sugata Mitra and Ken Robinson support the idea of new education system and suggest some rough ideas of breaking this problem. 

First of all, Ken Robinson think that a progress in studying depends on curiosity of a child and individual studying. It seems as easy as ABC, if a person is interested in a subject, he cracks a book and hits the book, but if he just force to studying something he will get down, goof off and play hooky. So teachers should encourage curiosity of children, but an idea of individualized teaching is quite provoking. For example, in some subjects are things, which a student can't learn individually and as a result, he lose an opportunity to pass something with flying colours. 

 Secondly, Sugata Mitra's idea of self-organized learning environment, where children can educate themselves by using the Internet seems to be interesting, but it just for first glance. To illustrate, we couldn't rely on cutting-edge technologies, because some students still do not have an access to the web. Therefore, gifted children need real practice in order not to fall behind. 

To summarize, I hope that leading educational authorities will grasp the importance of making new methods of education and do everything in order to change it successfully. Maybe in few years we will see a new generation of students, which will get a degree by using brand-new technologies. Also I'd like to add some ideas how to improve Ukrainian educational system, you can see them in a mindmap below.

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