British public school
Essay by Svistunova E., 0-7-6
Subject: Intercultural communication
Some people believe that British public schools are a relic of the past. Are they likely to die out or is there anything that will make them survive ages?
The most important thing in the process of education is to define the main objectives of education. At first sight we could think that the main aim of the education is to impart as much knowledge as possible to students in different domains. However it is a rather perfunctory opinion, as the process of education is to cultivate love for studying in pupils, to foster cultural, spiritual and moral values. We can observe this in each public school in the Great Britain. Together with the high quality of learning, British public schools are famous for their traditions that produce cultural and moral development of their pupils. Strict discipline that is the peculiarity of British independent schools also tends to develop the ability of each pupil to live in compliance with moral and ethical principles of the society.
However the rapid pace of the life does not correspond with the regular life of public schools. In the century when all teenagers feel free because of infinite possibilities of modern technologies, school uniform and ancient rules may be regarded as vestige of the past. Therefore some people think that British public schools have no future. They opine that Public schools had changed so much since their founding that they do far more harm than good to the nation. Nowadays critics blame Public schools for the fact that the schools are aiming more at producing gentlemen than at preparing their graduates for the economic, political, and technological challenges facing contemporary England. The inexperience of ex-pupils is to blame by some observers for England's economic and political decline.
Nevertheless, people of property from all over the world still prefer to send their children to study at independent schools in the United
Subject: Intercultural communication
Some people believe that British public schools are a relic of the past. Are they likely to die out or is there anything that will make them survive ages?
The most important thing in the process of education is to define the main objectives of education. At first sight we could think that the main aim of the education is to impart as much knowledge as possible to students in different domains. However it is a rather perfunctory opinion, as the process of education is to cultivate love for studying in pupils, to foster cultural, spiritual and moral values. We can observe this in each public school in the Great Britain. Together with the high quality of learning, British public schools are famous for their traditions that produce cultural and moral development of their pupils. Strict discipline that is the peculiarity of British independent schools also tends to develop the ability of each pupil to live in compliance with moral and ethical principles of the society.
However the rapid pace of the life does not correspond with the regular life of public schools. In the century when all teenagers feel free because of infinite possibilities of modern technologies, school uniform and ancient rules may be regarded as vestige of the past. Therefore some people think that British public schools have no future. They opine that Public schools had changed so much since their founding that they do far more harm than good to the nation. Nowadays critics blame Public schools for the fact that the schools are aiming more at producing gentlemen than at preparing their graduates for the economic, political, and technological challenges facing contemporary England. The inexperience of ex-pupils is to blame by some observers for England's economic and political decline.
Nevertheless, people of property from all over the world still prefer to send their children to study at independent schools in the United