A system which produces the opposite to it's intention. (Education System)

Member Name: BowieJ

Product:	Education System
Date:	11/01/09 (36 review reads)
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Advantages: Creates succesful human beings.

Disadvantages: Creates robots and parrots, and misses the entire concept of human life.

I suggest that the education is very good, but also awful, depending on how it is viewed. Our current system runs from the tender age of 4, right through the to whenever you decide to stop. The eduaction systems productions are in general very succesful and worthwhile. However, in my view, the education system is awful. What we learn is entirely dependant upon what the exam board issues in it's future examinations. Not only do children forget to learn for themselves, they lose any motivation to learn at all. Suggestably yes, a succesful job leading to money could aid in motivation, but what about the exceptions? So many children across the globe aren't catered for in the education system, and are therefore classed as 'failures'. Imagine setting a set of guidelines, a set of rules, that everybody you ever meet must achieve... otherwise are not worthy of life. If this in your eyes, is acceptable, then that is fair. But if you view this as a ridiculous concept, then why should it be allowed into the education system? Productions of the education system are robots repeating ideas they are fed over years of systematic procedure, but nowhere, in the entire history of education, are humans taught to think outside the box and therefore are nothing more than a mere mammal, a stain on the actual potential available to the human mind.

"Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world of students of the Humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's." - Aldous Huxley (Doors of Perception)

Summary: The education system should be altered. Summer Hill is a prime example.