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Education System Needs To Be Improved!

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Alexandra

What is the basic purpose of education? Is it just to keep burning the midnight oil to attain a handful of degrees or is it meant to acquire the knowledge that can be applied in practical use? Obviously the latter option sounds better. But the present education system is not aimed at this practice.

The studies, conducted by the Department of Education and Development, reveal that sometimes the students, who are eligible to receive a high school diploma, are unable to answer the questions that a fifth grader can. The level of knowledge attained by the students by the time they reach the senior year of their high schools is highly disappointing.

It seems that the present education system aims more at imparting degrees to the students and not in inculcating true knowledge in their minds. A batch of students is pushed through the present education system to make space for the new ones.

It's not that attempts have not been made to improve the deteriorating education system.

The No Child Left Behind Program was a success for six consecutive years. It provided quality education to the students in great financial needs but it was equally beneficial for other students as well. But then it stopped functioning because it’s funding was put on hold. The Federal Government did not acknowledge its success.

After school training programs were also set up by certain schools to help the children with their homework’s. These programs also assisted the students in learning basic mathematical calculations that they could put to use in future.

It is the public schools that degenerated the most. Sometimes the public school teachers had to bear the cost of providing learning materials to the students. Funds were provided by the State to make improvements. An attempt was made to make the classroom more habitable and conducive to arouse the interest of children in learning. Interactive computer games were sometimes rewarded to the good performing students.

A lot has been done and a lot more needs to be done because the status of the present education system is not satisfactory. Classes are still overcrowded because of which proper attention is not paid to all the students. In most of the cases, the most intelligent students catch the attention of the teachers and the weaker students remain ignored. It further widens the gap between the talented students and the dumb ones in a classroom. Some new buildings have been designed but those plans have not yet been implemented.

Jim Rohn very rightly said, "Formal education will make you a living but self education will make you a fortune."

Formal education is what is imposed upon you. Self-education is a matter of your own choice. It's very obvious that one puts in all his zest and zeal in something that is motivating for him and that interests him and not in the one that is compulsorily forced upon him. We are more responsible towards the tasks that we take up ourselves. A subject of your own choice will propel you to succeed in it. Formal education can bestow upon you a good job but the job may not be interesting for you. So, self-education will be a much more powerful tool in imparting knowledge.

Apart from introducing the required essential improvements, the present education system should also try to make the learning process entertaining enough to arouse the interest of the students. Then only will the students look forward to the education system with exuberance.

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