What Are The Negative Effects Of An American Education System

were teaching the students how to survive when they graduate from university. Grades did not matter that much those days, the most important was that you could sit down and have a discussion with someone and explain to him why for example 2+2=4 and not 5. The professors were testing you understanding of the subject, not if you have memorized the subject. Exams were questions, were you were to explain a concept and not multiple choice like nowadays. When you graduated from university, you had accomplished something great, you were not more the same person who came in there as a freshman. But nowadays, that is not the case anymore. Although America has always being a capitalistic country, capitalism was not in education. You got admitted to school based on your intellect, and not how much is sitting in your bank account or how much debt you are willing to take in order to get an education. My father used to tell me that, America was ranked first in all IQ test they participated in. That was the America that sent the first man to the moon and that was the America that created the first Doctor who separated Siamese twins. That was when an American Education was really worth it. As Christine Carter said during her opening speech at Berkeley:
(Christine Carter, Ph.D)
What Christine Carter means by that is, you can still get joy from learning in a decentralized system of education. Most people would argue that a decentralized system of education does not make students expert in their field of study because they spend too much time studying irrelevant subjects and not focusing on their main courses. But, the goal of education is not