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tilly
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Education System
March 31, 2004 - 10:31 AM
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Books, lectures, teachers, desks, and notes. Do they work for you? Many students I know find it difficult to learn in the environment that schools provide. A discussion in my class a few months ago revealed an opinion that schools are catering more and more to female students and don't allow tactile individuals to learn to the best of their ability.
My personal beef is that I feel like teachers have been encouraging the regurgitation of knowledge with a few applications here and there instead of actually teaching the subject in a memorable way. I don't feel like school is teaching me how to think.
Does the system need to be changed? Is it the structure of schools or some lack in teachers or representative of our society?
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Soma Pal
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Re: Education System
May 2, 2004 - 11:42 AM
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Hi!
You have raised a good point. I dont know about the gender issue, but I definitely think that most educational instituions are geared more towards the auditory and linguistic learners / learning modes
This does have its limitations: much of real life knowledge is under-explored; learners are unable to construct their knowledge since they are not in control of their learning, and of course there is a lack of opportunity to develop tolerance to ambiguity and readiness to achieve multi-thread management of information.
However, I think the reason why most educational institutions are unable to change are:
1. The large amount of knowledge that we think students need to be fed.
2. Fewer than the ideal number of educational institutions
3. Lack of industry participation in education of youngsters (social responsibility of the corporte world?)
4. Inertial in the educational system itself
Its important we examine these issues and come up with workable plans on a world-wide scale rather than just churning out theories and mass of literature on education.
take care
Soma
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tanm
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Re: Education System
May 6, 2004 - 04:18 AM
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The way i see it in my country, Education is a commodity in the free market and those who are able to afford it get it or get it good!
The general public education system is that of an SSC and HSC and taught in our native tongue Bangla. And there is now a mushrooming of so called English Medium schools where students are geared for 'O' Levels. One might refer to this as the private sector of the education industry and usually the people on the greener side of the income-scale can afford to send their children to these schools.
the public system is flawed in itself since its the worst form of what Toez was talking about. It was mainly about parroting material off text books... even essays! students could go through past ten years question papers and come up with Strategies that would get them to ace the exams! i mean... you could just get good grades by pretty much not learning anything substantial.
The private system is better usually. Which would at least get students to think a little. Toez, i notice you are in Canada. So since you are complaining about the system there, you probably you would not find this satisfactory either.
But what pains me most is to see education getting shelved like cigarettes. cheaper quality for low income groups and better ones for higher income groups. Countries like mine need to improve the staff and curriculum quality a lot more. Education should be equally good for all people. more later... or not?
PEace and Respects
tanm
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