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SKILLS VS KNOWLEDGE
In this present age, all around the world, the illusion that a student is "smart" by the information he remembers from the teachers or from books he reads has been employed by our educational system which leaves the mere skillful person in a lower class in the society. Students are now compared to other students by standardized test which rate your knowledge on what you remember and not what you know or can do. This educational system is not good enough for everyone to benefit in the society. The main aim or goal of educational institutions should be to developing skills by which to use to make information and not just to memories the data others have made. The modern world calls for a new kind of education in which the focus is deep understanding, creativity, and information management skills and not remembering things in order to pass tests and get higher scores than other students.
Most students are even forced to divert from the path that interest them to another that their parents or guardians has destined for them. Children who want to be artist are being forced into a medical field in which they might end up failing because of the current educational system. Judy Collins, an American singer, said in one of her songs "Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world". If one has no interest in what he does then he ends up being depressed for most of his days. Kids should be given the option, whether or not to go into a certain field, parents have no right whatsoever to drive a student towards an occupation they desire for them for their own personal reasons. This could to lead to sadness, insanity or even depression which, in most cases, leads to drugs abuse or alcoholism. Interest has to be the origin of whatever one does.
School works good for most kids, but not all. Kids who hate school so much that it causes them to lash out constantly or to become so weakly introverted that they are constantly attacked
In this present age, all around the world, the illusion that a student is "smart" by the information he remembers from the teachers or from books he reads has been employed by our educational system which leaves the mere skillful person in a lower class in the society. Students are now compared to other students by standardized test which rate your knowledge on what you remember and not what you know or can do. This educational system is not good enough for everyone to benefit in the society. The main aim or goal of educational institutions should be to developing skills by which to use to make information and not just to memories the data others have made. The modern world calls for a new kind of education in which the focus is deep understanding, creativity, and information management skills and not remembering things in order to pass tests and get higher scores than other students.
Most students are even forced to divert from the path that interest them to another that their parents or guardians has destined for them. Children who want to be artist are being forced into a medical field in which they might end up failing because of the current educational system. Judy Collins, an American singer, said in one of her songs "Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world". If one has no interest in what he does then he ends up being depressed for most of his days. Kids should be given the option, whether or not to go into a certain field, parents have no right whatsoever to drive a student towards an occupation they desire for them for their own personal reasons. This could to lead to sadness, insanity or even depression which, in most cases, leads to drugs abuse or alcoholism. Interest has to be the origin of whatever one does.
School works good for most kids, but not all. Kids who hate school so much that it causes them to lash out constantly or to become so weakly introverted that they are constantly attacked
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