Wednesday, July 21, 2010

-In a perfect world, what and how would you change the educational system in our country?

Our educational system has been deteriorating in the past years as we can experience in our local schools. Standards are not met by students, there are behavior problems in classes, and schools complain about the money they need and they do not receive. But how would our educational system be in a perfect world? In my opinion, an educational system in a perfect world would be characterized by quality teachers and motivated students that feel the need to acquire knowledge. First of all, I think that the level of quality of teachers is very important in the success of students. Teachers that actually make their classes interesting motivate students to want to learn even in subjects that they don’t feel interested in. By being interested, students pay more attention and therefore they perform better in their classes. Opposite to teachers who make students be less motivated to learn and even make them loose their interest on the subjects they were excited to be taking before.

But I also think that if students are not motivated by the simple reason of being able to have the experience of attending school and getting an education then everything else will be useless. In a perfect world, the only reason students would need to be successful in school would be having the opportunity to go to school. Not everyone in the world has the opportunity to attend school and be educated and I think that students are not aware of how fortunate they are. There are a variety of classes in our schools but there is the lack of interest to actually learn. Students are encouraged to pass their classes in order to graduate but they are never encouraged to acquire knowledge and apply it to their lives. So, students pass their classes and forget about the information that was taught in them and that is how they pretend to head to the real world. Expectations should be set higher for them because students will only rise to the level they are expected to be at.