Education has a tremendous impact on the human society. It begins at birth and continues until a person’s last day on earth. Human beings gain knowledge and information through education, and use them constantly throughout their lives. Leaders of nations have been thinking constantly how to educate their citizens, because of education’s role as a vital instrument in the development of an individual and society. There are different forms of education exist in the human society. The Most obvious one is the public education. The society offers the free public education to its citizens and citizens are required to take proper education in order to become vital members of the society. The public education, and its system have gone though several changes and lost some of their true values. The true purpose of education and its practice have disappeared in the public education system. Students have gone through hard times learning general knowledge and skills that they need for their future in the public school system. The public education system also doesn’t seem to provide enough extracurricular activities and safe environment to students. The public education also doesn’t help students in developing individual’s character. In today’s society, people tend to give up their small classrooms and unsafe schools to find places that they can get the most valuable lessons easily and effectively. Homeschooling offers lessons that the public education cannot offer and it educates kids to be successful in today’s society.
Webster defines education as the process of educating or teaching, but what is the purpose of it? Why or what students have to learn? The true purpose of education is to develop the knowledge, skill, and character of students. The public education has failed to implement those goals in its system. Marlow Ediger describes in his article “The American High School” that “I observe no project based learning or hands on approaches of