My friend Yakuza,from the previous post,is experimenting with blogging,I am posting another of his articles.
There you go:
Educate: (Verb) To give intellectual and moral training.
Education: (Noun) 1. Systematic training and instruction. 2. Knowledge and abilities, as well as character development acquired through such training.
(Source: Oxford Dictionary of current English – Oxford University Press)
None of us can help but compare. It is in our human nature to compare things, and always look towards what is better and how things could be if…
One of the aspects I really look at today is our education. How it was when I was at school, and how it is nowadays.
Truth be spoken, education in this country has taken a huge leap between the time I was at school and today which was over 13 years ago. The educational system has dramatically experienced an increase in the quality of education. It can easily be seen through the curricula, the facilities, and the educational team between teachers and administrators.
I have to truly envy children of today for the educational opportunities that they have at their hands. 10 years ago, computers barely existed, while now, computer education has become a requirement equivalent to math and language. The access to all kinds of information has also grown exponentially and will continue to do so as long as people are alive.
Yet, I sometimes look at some of the other aspects that were adopted by our educational systems. The major issue that I would really like to emphasize is the lack of respect that children of today have for their teachers, administrators, and their institutions.
In my days (which do not seem too long ago) teachers were regarded with an esteem that surpassed any other job due to the role that they have taken onto themselves. Now it is just another job, and a teacher has become no more than an information provider rather than an educator. At the time, God forbid, a student should answer a teacher back, let alone disobey, or any other form of insubordination. A good beating was very natural at that time which I do not entirely agree with, and this is something that diminished a long time ago.
Nevertheless, I have to admit that this particular part of the educational process that I have had, made me, and I can speak for a lot of people of my age, a more disciplined person. This kind of discipline has made a lot of difference on our behavior, albeit at school or outside it. This also continued to affect our behavior to be more disciplined throughout our life, professionally or at home.
Questions:
What happened to our educational system?
Did the role of the institutions, teachers, and administrators change?
Is discipline part of the curriculum?
Is behavioral education at its simplest form in manners and etiquette part of the same curriculum?
Or is the role of education just to prepare the students with the information that they would need (sciences, math, geography, languages)?
Or did we as people neglect and misplace our emphasis as to what should be taught at schools, hoping that the rest will come by itself?
Do we as people of today give to these institutions the proper respect and credit that they deserve?All these questions, I guess, will eventually pour into one simple, yet very specific question: Will my children and yours, despite having been given the necessary technical information on a professional or academic level, have the proper upbringing that will translate in the future into better people who are still technically able?
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The major component in children's education is the home. If a child isn't respected he will not know how to give respect. If a child isn't trusted he will not know how to trust. If a child isn't given resposibility or held accountable for his actions he will not be responsible or accountable. May sound too simple, but it works. The school is a minor influence in a child's education. Ann
I disagree with most of what you said. I don't think that children today respect their teachers less than we did. I'm aroudn the same age as you are. We had teachers begging us and crying in class for us not to give them a hard time.
We've had students that made teachers run after them throughout the school. We've even had students that beat up teachers.
I think you just forget. Unless you went to a school I never heard of in Jordan.
I disagree with most of what you said. I don't think that children today respect their teachers less than we did. I'm aroudn the same age as you are. We had teachers begging us and crying in class for us not to give them a hard time.
We've had students that made teachers run after them throughout the school. We've even had students that beat up teachers.
I think you just forget. Unless you went to a school I never heard of in Jordan.
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Great thoughts.