No specific experience or in high school or college has affected or troubled me as much as the general ideal of the American educational system. Though I have had many wonderful teachers and professors, and have loved much of the time that I've spent in school, the emphasis on "balance" and the "well-rounded" student that is such a central part of high school, and to a lesser extent, of college, seems one of the most misguided and destructive elements in our system. The American ideal in education is epitomized in the varsity athlete/ honors student/ active citizen model that drives most ambitious teenagers to balance soccer practice, volunteer work, and AP classes. Of course, there is much to be said for being exposed to a variety of environments, people, and activities, and high school is arguably the best time for such exposure. It is also important at any time in a person's life to have a balance of different activities. Unfortunately, the ideal of the well-rounded student has become such a generic mold that problematizes what it seems to answer to. .
Clearly balance and is important to everyone, but what generic ideals overlook is that everyone's idea of balance is different and spans different ranges of activity. While some may work find balance in the mold of many widely different activities, for others this will seem overwhelming, not to mention unnecessary. Some people may want to focus on a specific area of interest early on, and it is surprising that any system would not cater to this, as, presumably, the purpose of education is not only to create well-informed citizens, but to train them for work in a specific area. This became overwhelmingly clear to me when I spent six month in Switzerland my freshman year of high school, where students specialize in languages, or sciences from the fifth grade on. Though this system causes some problems for students who are undecided as to their interests, its ideals are so distinct from the American, that it questions whether it is necessary to push all citizens through the same system.
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As an educator of young children, I strive to ensure that they receive the best possible education, enabling them to become valued contributing members of society by offering them an education, excellent in all aspects, in which God, His Truth, His Life and His Love are intrinsic to the entire curriculum and life of the school. Education is a developmental process involving the whole child and the school has a responsibility to address the academic, spiritual, social, physical and emotional needs of the students. ... Keeping in mind the "multiple intelligence" of the learner, education sh...
Board of Education," author Clayborne Carson shares his explicit opinions as to the actual effectiveness of the all-famous civil rights case Brown V. Board of Education. ... The reader then starts to see that the good intentions of this case brought up problems that were beyond the topic of education. ... We see that there is a correlation between the success rate of minorities with less net income and non-minorities with a higher net income; this correlation brings us back to the fact that the education of the minority race is one that is very important to this society and without this educa...
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