BP #7. System of Education

Hi my dear reader. Our today’s topic is education. I’m to describe you educational system and share my impressions about two videos I’ve seen recently.

In the first video Sugata Mitra told us about educational system. The main point is that nowadays everything connected with computers. You don’t need to write by hand, you should just be able to type on computer, read information and count. That’s all. Schools just produce people, who will be identical, like the part of bureaucratic administrative machine. They don’t teach how to develop your personality. Every student is just a gear of a whole mechanism. It’s easier to control the herd, than nation. Due to it we should change sth in our educational system.

The second video shows us Ken Robinson’s opinion about how to escape the ‘death valley’. To put it in a nutshell, he thinks, that children are different; they have different speed, ability, natural talents in studying. So, there are a lot of things, which are depends on teacher. Teachers stimulate pupils to work, help them to be diligent and hit the books easily. Education is not a mechanic system – is human system. So it’s very important to improve teachers, their methods of giving new material etc.

I take the view that our educational system should be improved and developed. A lot of things depend on students, and if you show initiative, have and use your mental agility and prepare lessons, you could achieve everything and pass your exams with flying colors. You should trust for students more and let them make a choice themselves.  For example: create schedules, choose courses they really need.  It’s very important to increase the number of classes of our main subjects, because practice makes perfect. Yes, of course, it’s great, if you achieve full marks in the test, but it’s also important to acquire knowledge, to show a marked improvement and be able to use it in real life. Not everyone can do tedious task. Students should more communicate with each other to develop teamwork, communication, leadership skills.

To sum up, I want to advice you learn everything by heart and I’m sure you’ll make the grade. Good luck my dear reader.