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| Traditional Education Has No Place In The 21st Century |
| What function and value does traditional education have? It really prepares one for work, the knowledge gains seems to be beyond use. I'm not saying that education can't be instructive, I'm saying traditional education has no real function in the modern age.
What do you think? |
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It's too old fashioned. 2/3 of the time students spend at school is completely wasted. Its a good
thing the education system will be undergoing a major technological overhaul in the next decade or
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I agree because school teaches you how to be what society's definition of what normal is, and it
does not teach enough about life. |
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I agree, with a few reservations. I believe the education system does need a good old shake-up in
order to prepare students better for the world of work.
I wouldn't be quite so scathing about universities - for some students these really are the best
option, and some uni's teach great practical courses that set people up for jobs in industry.
However, I think that schools should offer a broader range of subjects and teach them in a more
practical, hands-on way. Students should be given the chance to excel in the subjects that suit
their own personal skills and aptitudes, instead of being forced down an academic route, which suits
some but not others. We should also, as a society, value practical skills as highly as academic
ability. |
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Traditional education is beyond use. I believe that traditional education teaches knowledge, but
that the knowledge that we gain in school simply isn't useful when we go out into the world.
Schooling tends to prepare one for other schooling. You must learn to write an essay because when
you get to university.
Essays? What are the value of essays? They make you logically consider your argument and set it out
in a structured form. Okay, I see that. But how often do you need to produce a written argument,
unless that is part of your job? Surely, training for that particular job would include this
activity.
Learning maths, reading and writing is not something that one needs to attend school for. Parents
can teach their children to read and encourage them to find more difficult books as they progress.
Maths can be taught easily, anyone who needs to use more than the most basic numeric skills could
use a calculator OR, should receive specific numeric training.
University education is even worse in some ways. Unless it is a job related programme, it seems
that the purpose of university degrees is to feed money into the Education industry. And when i say
industry, I mean industry. Having been a tutor in several universities, I'm yet to see what my
students could not have learned outwith the HE environment. University courses are money earners,
people feel they have to go to a good university and do a good course, so that they can get the good
jobs, and yet very few courses would prepare someone for the actual job. Even someone who has done
a degree in marketing, or science, still needs to be placed in the real world to make themselves
useful.
Perhaps it's time to look again at the forms that education takes. Shake up the system, rethink
schools as something more than giant child warehouses and universities and colleges as something
other than storage facilities for those who don't know what to do next. |
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It depends on what you consider "traditional". A true traditional math curricula would be too
difficult for students these days because it does not give the answers. The student has to answer
the questions - not pick from 4 choices. Heck, in this day and time, they can't even pass the tests
when they have a 25% chance of guessing the right answer!
When I say "traditional" I am talking about the same Math curricula used in schools and at home
fifty years ago. One of my very favorites is a Math Program which is ALL word problems. Kids today
would have a stroke if they were told they have to think through the problems and come up with the
answer - no multiple choice...oh my - how impossible they would think it is!!! |
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In the 21st century it is more important to make the proper application of what a student learn from
the school or college. According to me to some extent traditional education is not that much
competent to produce this privilege to the students. Traditional education is no longer useful to
the students of 21st century as it is full of descriptive pattern of answering the questions. But
the practical application is needed more in today’s education system. This can make a proper
engineer or a perfect doctor. After all, a student would go to his or her field and start practicing
what they learnt from institution. So the application of knowledge is significant. Schools should be
much vaster to the choice of subjects and should make the students more upgraded in taking 21st
century’s challenge. |
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Maybe some of the cores such as English, Math, History, and Science don't get used extensively in
every job market, but they are still valuable to learn for use in life. A person knowledgeable in
English and writing can offer better communication or organizational skills; the mathematics are
used in basically every form of engineering, and that's a job that's sure not going to become
obsolete anytime in the near future; same with the sciences, chemistry biology and physics are
inherent to research that is advancing technological and industrial ability; and history creates the
foundation of being able to learn from past mistakes, and as such offers analytical skills.
Traditional school simply builds on these basics to give EVERY student an idea of what the world
offers, to challenge them to extensively study a subject and become proficient at it so as to help
mankind.
Then comes college; a training ground, not a warehouse. As students decide what they want to do with
their lives, colleges offer the specialized courses to become adept at the skills necessary to
become a professional doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher, computer programmer, or thousands
others.
You can't possibly argue that every parent in the world has the ability to teach their children the
precise information needed to become a skilled doctor. As such, the education system is there to
offer this kind of training from valuable instructors already renowned in the field.
What education system do you propose to replace it? How to type on a keyboard so that you can "surf
the Internet" for information and become someone's secretary? By that act, in the long run there
won't be any new information on the Internet to search for, because the researchers developing new
technologies require traditional educations. |
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I'll vote no just because you go too far. Standards of living have progressed because of division of
labor. Most parents don't have the time to educate their kids adequately while still earning a
living. Many are not knowledgeable in everything to do it right anyway. So, you still need the
traditional way of having someone stand up in front of (or at least manage) many to do the
educating.
University is I think better situated because you have market priced and evaluated professors and
mostly motivated students. If nothing else University degrees prove that you can handle and work
with subject information in some depth. That way companies who hire have some idea what they are
getting. At least that is my evaluation of my Engineering education.
I do agree that the system not quite right. |
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13 Dec 2007 14:47
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