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Pros And Cons Of American Education

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The United States ranks 17th in an assessment of the education system of 50 countries, but ranks first in the armed forces (Gayathri). It does not make sense, Why, How? The United States should be compelled to be in the top five in the education system. They should be competing with Finland, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan. Everyone has a different idea about school but most people think for a better life, people must work hard in school. Some people may get lucky and make something people love. They might become millionaires but that is never a guarantee. Just like people look and dress in different ways why does the education system not provide that to the students. It is no one's fault but United States and its people have not yet recognized …show more content…

Why do we go to school? Most students ask that same question and the answer is simple. To learn what people don't know, no one is perfect. Education can help a person develop, but not without hard work and dedication. Everyone has a strong point and a weak point. The United States and Japan have very different education systems, each with its pros and cons. Jim Stigler was a student at the University of Michigan when he went to Japan to research teaching methods. An observation done in Japan in a 4th grade class showed clearly how they are different. The teacher was teaching the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes on paper and one kid was having a hard time. His cube looked all crooked and the teacher said, “Why don't you go put yours on the board?” He chose the student that could not do it, weird right (Spiegel)? That is weird for the students in United States, but in Japan it is ordinary. They ask the students’ that are struggling to go in front of the whole class and show them what you are having trouble with. After they have attempt after attempt and put in the hard work they either get the answer or gave it their all. They keep trying and do not stop. After they solved the problem, they feel proud of themselves and are confident. They are up for any challenge that comes their …show more content…

The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation stated, “Only one in four high school students graduate ready for college in all four core subjects.” This should definitely not be happening in the United States because they are one of the top countries. Why would this be happening in the United States? Ken Robinson answers that question by saying, “Doing what they did in the Past.” The system that is being used now was created and designed for a different age (Robinson). The education system gives a mindset that if a person does not have academic abilities a person would not be successful, therefore many think why go to school if they are not going to be victorious. It lowers their self-esteem. Robinson states, “Education is modeled on the interests of industrialization and in the image of it.” The schools are like a factory, “organized on factory lines, ringing bells, separate facilities [and] separate subjects (Robinson).” The one phrase that was appealing was when he stated “ We still educate children by batches.” The system separates the students from ages. Why do people think everyone is the same? Students mature at different ages and are more capable of retaining the information given to them. This needs to change in order for the students to thrive and they along with that the United States will become even

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Modern public education is thought as a device used to gauge the intellects of students solely by their potential and their drive for education fairly and evenly, along with sparking interest in the student to create a lifelong bond with their future career. The public education system is gravely flawed in America and has fallen behind in comparison to other countries. The education system in America provides a disadvantaged education for poorer schools, and an outstanding unemployment of college students after. The American education system: highschool and college, has become increasingly difficult and albeit impossible to acquire a stable financial flow and secured success from high school and an undergraduate degree alone. Public schooling

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There is some underlying cynicism behind this form of education, which can only be noted once people open their eyes, and see how the schooling system functions. In “Against School”, John Tyler Gatto goes in depth and explains the problems with today’s form of school education. He states that a proper education should prepare students for society by pushing the students to be their best and teach skills needed to succeed; however, that is not the case for the current schooling system in America. Gatto claims the creation of school education in America was heavily influenced by negative aspects of Prussian culture; in result, creating a schooling system that promotes the production of mediocre intellects; thereby, rendering those students to be, to an extent, incompetent and manageable. These students are then sent to the labor force to be compliant workers that meet the demands of

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Unlike in Finland, the US has experienced a setback in the school system. US students rank far below Finnish students in the PISA test (Aho et al. 131). The setbacks in education can be associated with the inability of the government to nationalize the education system. The education system in the US is governed individually by states, leading unequal requirements and unequal funding by the federal government. Adopting the principles and standards of the education system used by Finland can help the US to revamp the school system in the US, and give students a better chance of succeeding.

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Our current education system is failing and it wasn’t always failing, during the Cold War or the Space War the United States education system was on par with other country with global education ranking. Viswanathan states during the Cold War that we see as a nuclear arms or space race, but education were doing great at time. “Harvard and other American universities competed against schools in other countries to reach a perpetually rising bar in the battle for superior education.” Jencks states that “We didn’t want to be behind in anything, least of all behind the Soviets.” Harvard College Class of 1958 launched a program and it was the “most ambitious fundraising campaign ever.”

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The educational system is flawed in a variety of ways in how they teach the next generations in the format they do. Perhaps, less teenagers and children would dislike school if the rubric for which they were taught was less about only specific talents some kids have, and more about taking care to aid the particular child in which they find possible success. As of now, the educational system caters to a very specific group of learners. Students are told that they must take very specific courses if they wish to succeed in life. In high school, it is insisted that each student has to have four years of English, four years of Math, three years of History, some schools require Religion course, Government and Economic classes.

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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King Jr. said that about education. Everyone should be educated, it's the law to go to school until you graduate from High School. Some people decided to not go to college and just made stupid mistakes, but the smart people make the right decision and go to a well educated college.

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The United States education system is most beneficial to students and helps prepare them for college and real world issues. For instance, the United States education system tries to have students go to high school and succeed, while learning but also have fun while doing that. In other countries that is not the case. In China a student, who was trying to get himself back on the right path was deciding what school to go to. When he found a school, he believed would be the right fit for him, he said, “I only knew that the school was very strict, to the point that some students has supposedly committed suicide”.

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The current US educational system is far too outdated and inefficient for the youth (more specifically, students) of the 21st century. Since the days of the industrial revolution, youth have been taught, in essence, the same thing, over and over- to obey orders quickly, quietly and repetitively without truly learning the information that will supposedly "improve" their futures. Kids and teens alike rarely get the chance to truly learn something of their own accord; instead, the higher-ups (teachers, principals, school board, etc.), choose what kids and teens these days must know and what they are better off (in their opinion) not knowing. Students will never feel the pride and happiness that comes with learning something they have wanted to learn, independently. The higher-ups never

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Many intellects suggest the number one problem with American schooling is its goals. We have, for example, the great H.L. Mencken who said, “The aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and to awaken their intelligence. . .Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim. . .is

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We go to school to have the material things most people only go to school for that reason not for knowledge. Most people risk there life to have have material thing. No one want the million dollars in there head they rather have one real dollar in real life. In to days world success comes from material things noting else matters if you don’t have material things.

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We, as a country, need to start working to help our kids learn the things they will need later on in life, rather than trying to make them believe they all need to be the same. There are so many standards placed on these kids, some of them including AIMS, common core, PARCC, AZmerit, exc... The list goes on.. There is no consistency for these children, the constant change is what will fail them now. There is no structured, tested, full proof way of educating our kids so that they will know how to be successful adults later in

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Another reason why people go to school is because being educated means a person will have a wider view of reality and be open to equality. Education also makes a person confident about himself/herself because educated persons are taken more seriously than those without schooling and also self-dependent, not just in financial terms but also in making decisions in life. It’s also a tool in making someone’s dreams come true, if he/she want to be a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant, or whatever he/she wants to be. (Reda,

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So, this what i find in USA's education. In fact, the education in USA has a lot of beneficial system that attract me such as it contributes to increase in production, as boys and girls are taught to respect for productive work and the belief that they can rise in economic standing through work, effort and the desire to go where opportunities exist. USA public schools apply the best quality models in education and are role models in all educational systems in the world. I am talking here about primary and secondary schools. For example, the views about my children in USA’s school and their way of assimilation of information quickly, however they are not perfect for the English language, but that did not prevent them from understanding easily.

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