“We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. Thats nuts.” ~ Mike Rowe. Ever since kids were born our society has taught them that fourteen years of education will help them for the rest of their lives. Society has taught them that school is the most vital thing during our youth. Is our society lying to our youth? Nobody has questioned that method for education since people still had to walk both ways up hill to school. Schools aren’t preparing the youth of our society for their futures. Today in high schools teachers are teaching what they are supposed to, but is it going to aid kids in the future? The criteria on which kids in high schools are taught isn’t going to take them …show more content…
Is the purpose of school mainly to keep going with the kids education in college or to prepare kids for a career? Most people would argue it is to prepare kids for college, yet is it necessary. Take google for example, fourteen percent of their employee’s didn’t go to college. If one of the most successful corporations in America hires employees who haven’t gone to college, why do kids need to go to college to get a good job, or why do schools keep preparing kids for college instead of a career (Wilezol). The average salary for a person with just a high school degree is 30,000 dollars at a pedestrian job not a career, while the average teacher makes 57,200 dollars a year. There are countless careers in between that spectrum of money that don’t require a college degree. If somebody without a college degree can earn the same as the people teaching our youths to go to college, should kids even feel the need to go to college. Granted people who have a college degree tend to make more money a year, but there is a downfall, depending on the career it can be harder to find a job …show more content…
We live in a world where getting an excelled education barely puts a person ahead of somebody with half of their education. Those problems with education has caused an unemployment rate in the US of 4.9%. It has also caused a generation of kids who don’t respect education, due to the fact most of the skills they are learning won’t relate to their everyday lives. Brought into education at the age of 4 in preschool a kid leaves their high school education as 18. That is 14 years of a person’s life spent trying to learn skills they will needs for the next let’s say 60 years of their life. Why would the education system waste part of those 14 years making students learn skills they have a very low probability of using for their next 60
We live in a society where we are surrounded by people telling us that school/education and being educated is the only way to succeed. However, the school system is not up to the standards we want it to uphold. There are three issues we discuss the most which are the government, the student, and the teacher. In John Taylor Gatto 's essay “Against School”, we see the inside perspective of the educational system from the view of a teacher. In “I Just Wanna Be Average”, an essay written by Mike Rose, we hear a student 's experience of being in a vocational class in the lower level class in the educational system when he was supposed to be in the higher class. Both Gatto and Rose give their opinions on how the educational system is falling apart. Today the government is only trying to get students to pass, making it hard for teachers to teach what they want. Students are affected everyday by the school system. They sit there - bored - and do not think that the teachers care, making the
As much as adolescents complain about education, we would be crippled without it. The immense freedom we have in America to learn whatever we want is something we should not take for granted. People in other countries fight to learn and to educate themselves as best as they can. People in America just 50 years ago had to fight to learn. Could you imagine living in a world where you couldn’t learn? People all over the world fight for that, because it’s scary to live in a world where you can’t do the simple task of reading or writing. What if you couldn’t read the label on a bottle of bleach? Could you imagine the damage that could cause you, simply because you couldn’t read? We have so much knowledge at our fingertips; museums, libraries, public
Be a gamer, save a life by Jane mcgonigal is an essay in which she discusses the positive side of video game addiction. She starts off by giving some opinions some people have about video games. Throughout the essay she gives statistics on video games and gamers, she only brings out the positives of these stats. Though they may have been made to support the opposing side she still has found a use for them in her essay. She gives her explanation as to why people feel the need to constantly game. She says it is because in video games there are clear goals and gives a sense of accomplishment and heroism. She also believes if jobs were about to build their goals of a company in a video game form then their company would profit immensely.
...of money, but money alone is not going to solve it. There are always going to be people that are going to take for granted their education. It is the government’s responsibility to see education be equal for all, but also an individual responsibility to take the time to sit down with each other and talk about the importance of school, learning, and education.
The majority of people in today’s society, strongly believe that our generation is obligated to take on college education right after high school. It is common for a person who does not choose the college path to be considered “too dumb or too lazy” (Murray 253). Most students with their first choice being college after high school believe that it’s beneficial and will be very valuable for their future career choice but not all students have that same mindset. Many students are finding themselves into large amounts of debts, and go to college just for the hell of it, not realizing that they are not meant for brutal long classes that require serious thinking and learning skills. I do believe that education is generally very important, but not everyone is suitable for the amount of knowledge and skills college education
Many people want to have a specific job or atleast a job that pays quite a bit of money, but they need a good education to pursue a career. I recently interviewed forty-three year old Tony Platt who in high school had a dream to support his future family and live comfortably. I also interviewed twelve year old Tyler Salyer whose current dream is to become an elementary school teacher. In both of these situations education plays a very important role. It is almost impossible to get a very good paying job without a college education and nobody could become a teacher without it.
School is a process that takes time and a lot of dedication. When we finish high school we have to choose to go to college or not. Most people go to college without knowing what they want to do. The only thing we know is that we want a degree of some sort. Getting a college degree should be essential to everybody because without one you won’t be successful in life.
Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” but what happens if this weapon becomes too expensive to use. Throughout our life time, what we are really taught is that how important it is for one to receive their education, but who really needs to be taught is the education system itself. It is an American dream for our and future generations to gain knowledge and advance because that’s what our nation needs; it needs people who we can trust to hand our nation to, but the debt that comes with educating our generations is holding a lot of them back and that’s unacceptable.
Somewhere in America a parent is asking their child what they learned at school today, the child will most likely say that they didn’t learn much. It is sad to say that with today’s education system, this is true. The K-12 school system has oppressed students far more than it has liberated them, and this must change if America wants to produce members of society that actually have something to contribute. Students graduate high school having learned how to play the “game” of school leaving them grossly unprepared for college. Students should leave high school with a base of knowledge and strategies they can employ to succeed in college if that is where they wish to go, but instead they come to college knowing how to line up quietly and copy
According to the clear language group, the average adult reads at a 7th and 8th grade level. Not to mention the fact that the american adult has below average math skills according to the National Public Radio, meaning that with the knowledge fresh in their minds, they would actually be above the rest. Although they cannot work, instead of learning Geometry, or Civics, they could learn specialized skills, by taking art apprenticeships, acting courses, pursuing passions, finding what they 're good at, and when they do, then they can focus on that. If the child finds that they like computers and learn that they need math for that, then they can take math classes, learn that. Why should we push kids towards a one-size fits all education, which has no clear benefit towards any career, when they can specialize these skills outside of schools towards a career they know they
As a child growing up, I was not told or taught about the importance of educating myself. I was not informed this would be one commodity needed for success and wealth. I came to believe as a child that education was a choice, in a sense that is true. I come from a family where education was a choice, and minimum wage was the hierarchy. I was taught minimum wage was better than no wage at all. I come from a family where education was not real high on the priority list of great success. A place where you got a job and you stuck it out all the way through retirement. Where you were crowned with a gold watch for all the dedication, ...
Educating the future generation is very important the future generation to receive a good education. It very important for the future will become our care givers when we are old and sick. Children will need a steady education to become someone great in the future. Public schools do not have a high standard of education. School funding for public schools do not meet the standard it 's supposed to. Teachers are not paid enough and they just get paid just enough to get by in life. Teachers work day and night to just get a bit of money that is unfair to them. Materials are also needed for students to be successful. In classrooms the students have out-of-date textbooks A bit of Utensils as in markers pencils pens erasers for the year. Classroom are filled with many students per
Growing up they said that education is the key to life. Without an education you won’t make it very far in life, at least that is what adults preaches. According to Capra "America must acknowledge that education is a public necessity and not a luxury for
Education is a very powerful key to success in modern day American society. More often than not, a person will not be able to find a decent job unless they have graduated from a reputable college with a degree. Because of this change in society, it has brought a lot of pressure by parents for their child to graduate and get a degree. A lot of those who graduate with a degree are not always the best candidate for the job, and even with the degree, they are not even always guaranteed a job. But personally, getting an education shouldn’t be as big of a deal, as it is now. Back in the day, most people did not go to college, none the less graduated from high school; yet they still made it through and learned lots of things from their jobs that they acquired.
John W. Gardner said, “Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” Education today is very ineffective. It is in an in between phase of the ways of old and a time of complete reform. The main issue is that people often lose sight of why the education system should even be reformed. It shouldn’t be reformed because “that’s what everyone else is doing.” It needs to be reformed to bridge the gap for the students who have a different learning style. It should be reformed to expand knowledge for students. Education reform can have good and bad effects. Because the education system is very complex, educators are being faced with changes and they must decide what is best for students.