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The Pros And Cons Of The American Education System

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Every american citizen is granted a chance to attend school from kindergarten to twelfth grade for free. John Locke would agree with this because he believed that everyone was born with a blank mind, and that blank mind should be educated. The system enables children to have an education and to advance further in life with the knowledge necessary. For giving everyone that opportunity this system should be praised, but in the system it also has many flaws. The American education system is failing its citizens and the government is doing nothing about it. School should not cause stress, it should be a place where people want to go to have fun and learn. All that is happening now; is students stressing about a test, or about homework, or about …show more content…

Trying to get eight hours of sleep while trying to do homework and practicing; the two do not fit together. Richard Sherman, a professional football player, has graduated from Stanford with honors and earning a degree in communication understands the difficulty with a student athlete's time management. “Most of these kids are done with class by 3 o'clock and you have the rest of the day to do what you please," Sherman says. "You may spend it studying and then you may go have coffee with friends… As a student-athlete, you don't have that kind of time. You wake up in the morning and have weights. Then you go to class. Then you might get a bite to eat, then you go to meetings and then you have practice. And you have to try to get all your school work done." Schools are suppressing children by forcing them into a compliance-based model of education. All children are natural learners. Children are born with curiosity, creativity, wonder, and intrinsic motivation. Research shows that with more years of formal schooling, those very qualities are stunted tremendously. Moreover, schools largely resemble prisons: children are cut from society and social media is banned. Many people have the issue of being bored in class and not having a “thrilling” education which is saddening. Students do not have the desire to go to school because it is not interesting. School is filled with lectures, tests, and homework which is not ideal to the natural curious and adventurous teenager. Adam Smith would think that this is morally wrong. Smith wants education to be fun so people could learn and pursue their dreams with the education necessary. There are key issues that if addressed, could impact the whole system and become extraordinarily better than

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Public school is one of the primary sources of education for many children in the United States, therefore it should be the school 's sole purpose to teach them the essential elements they need to succeed in life. This means more than teaching math, science, history, and English. A school, primarily high school, must provide courses that focus on a student 's future career plans, courses that challenge a student academically, and courses that help a student navigate their life as adults. Without classes that help students expand and delve into their future career choices, they can limit their views of success. An excellent example of this can be found in Jonathan Kozol 's Still Separate, Still Unequal, particularly in his interviews with the students of Fremont High School in Los Angeles.

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What is school really trying to do with our lives? The article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto is an article that talks about the problem of schools and how the goals are not what they say they are. First. the author talks about how the school system creates boredom and what could be done to fix it. He then talks about how school is not needed in its required class times, what the schools say the goals are for the students, and where our school system originated from.

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The Author argues that forced schooling is meaningless, and shows historical proof in his essay: “Throughout most of American history, kids

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Even from an early age they were raised to think and breathe in a certain way, and school was no longer about “learning.” Clarisse describes school as, “An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don’t;” (29). This really shows a good description of what school is like in the dystopian world. It shows how the government, he main management of these schools, wants their society and future generations to participate in activities where learning and receiving knowledge does not exist. Meanwhile those children are growing, their minds also becomes more empty.

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Bradley Curtis English 101 4/10/24 Holt begins his essay with the powerful statement: "Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn’t know, better at finding and figuring things out, and more confident, resourceful, persistent, and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling. " The tone for the remainder of the essay is established by this thought-provoking statement, which grabs the reader's attention right away. Anecdotes are a clever tool that Holt uses to make his points.

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In this society, there are no books at home, and they will not have access to books so there’s no reinforcing the student knowledge. Captain Beatty explained how education undoes what school teaches. “The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school” (Bradbury 75). This matters because schools try to teach the kids, but their home environment is full of screens and watching is a passive activity in which they aren’t learning. Overall, this society has ruined the education system because of the lack of education in homes and schools.

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Students are becoming more “society-smart rather than school-smart” (Barber, 2014, p. 2.). They are picking up on the society’s cues on the importance of actions and not celebrating or desiring knowledge. So they realize to become successful they essentially must do away with the classroom and focus on real-world experience. Barber, in his article, brought up this idea: “The very first lesson smart kids learn is that it is much more important to heed what society teachers implicitly by its deeds and reward structures than what school teaches explicitly in its lessons plans and civic sermons.” (Barber, 2014, p. 3.).

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