Argumentative Education System

The human mind is perhaps the greatest object on the earth, animate or inanimate, but without the proper training of the mind, it is a relatively useless tool. Through the development of formal education systems, humans as a whole have tried to ensure training of all minds so as to continue prosperity for the world. Many times, though, education systems do not realize the harm they are doing and their negative consequences. Among the largest of these inadequate education systems is the American primary schooling system. The American education system is in fact failing; it continues to deplete children of their natural creativity and thirst for knowledge while preaching conformity, which in turn creates an ill-prepared and incompetent public.

In the beginning, there were basic schoolhouses to fulfill the needs of an industrialized society. The subjects taught were aimed at securing a job, creating a stigmatization that any subject that will not help get a job is useless. Today, the basis of classical higher education has been fighting its way into primary education while trying to destroy the previously mentioned stigmatization created against non-career-oriented subject matter. Only after hundreds of years, humans as a whole are figuring out that the only subject of education is life and all of its manifestations. Because of this, the main ideas of education should be few, but very important. They should be applicable to many scenarios and students should be thoroughly taught their application in life. A student should also be able to experience the joy of discovery when general ideas taught to him give him an intimate understanding of the chain of events that is called life (Whitehead 3). In all forms, education should simply be...

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Another step the teachers unions take to protect teachers is to ensure absolute equality. No matter the performance of teachers, no teacher is allowed to be paid any more than another teacher, which eliminates any incentive to perform better. When comparing this to international systems, such as the one in South Korea, one of the most successful education systems in the world, it is seen that the most effective teachers not only receive bonuses, but also receive prestigious designations as “master teachers”. Another thing to notice is that in South Korea, teachers are carefully selected from the top five percent of their high school class, wheras in America, according to our secretary of education, a “significant proportion” of teachers are from the bottom one third of their respective college classes.