Is your Student life is Educational??

Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: seven classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years? Is this routine really necessary? And if so, for what? A considerable number of well-known Americans never went through the twelve-year wringer we currently go through and they turned out all right. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln? Someone taught them, to be sure, but they were not products of a school system. Throughout most of American history, kids generally did not go to high school, yet the unschooled rose to be admirals, like Farragut; inventors, like Edison; captains of industry, like Carnegie and Rockefeller; writers, like Melville, Twain and Conrad; and even scholars, like Margaret Mead. Ariel Durant, who co-wrote an enormous multivolume history of the world with her husband, Will, was happily married at fifteen. And who could reasonably claim that Ariel Durant was an uneducated person? Unschooled, perhaps, but not uneducated. We have been taught to think of "success" as synonymouse with, or at least dependant upon, "schooling", but history has shown that that isn't true in either an intellectual or financial sense. What exactly is the purpose of public schools? Mass schooling really got its teeth into the United States between 1905 and 1915, though it was conceived of much earlier and pushed for throughout most of the nineteenth century. The reason given for this upheaval was, roughly speaking, threefold: 1) To make "good people". 2) To make good citizens. 3) To make each person reach their true potential and become his/her best. These goals are still trotted out today on a regular basis and most of us accept them in one form or another as a decent definition of public education's mission, however, some schools actually fall short in achieving them. I believe your education depends on the school and the teachers. I've had teachers who've believed in memorizing (which is not realy learning), and I've had some who've only really worked on critical thinking and understanding. A good school (with good employees) does educate children. They play a major role in promoting critical thinking amongst their students by giving out assignments and projects to be done in groups. Through this, kids learn how to cooperate with their peerds. Such skills are important, especially in today's world, where innovation is the key to success. Of course, it all depends on the institution.. Wow I went off-topic. Sorry. o_o Oh, and cheers, this is my 200th post. =D Woohoo, I can use emoticons now. =P

It depends on the school and school system aswell as the teacher. I'm very lucky to have gone to the school I went to (I finished secondary school last year) but the school I attended had a very bad reputation a few years back when it was mostly run by nuns. But we got a new principle and new teachers. Now to the point; my math teacher NEVER just told us a formula or method and told us to memorise it. She'd show us a sum and the class had to figure out how to work it out. Once we did we had to explain why the answer was that not just how we figured it out. She didnt give up, she would keep at it till she was sure everyone understood. I was terrible at math when I started that school but by the end of my first year it was one of my best subjects. But unfortunatly not all teachers are like that so it's up to the student to actually want to understand most of the time. Another thing is in my first school the math teacher just got us to memorise everything. That is one of the reasons why peopl edislike math so mush, most of my class got confused with simple things like -4x-6... So what I'm saying is that if a student is curious or interested I think now they have to ASK to learn these things because a lot of teachers dont try hard enough, it's too tedious. (sorry for really long response! .

student life is a good life. students life is educated. in this scenario students are well educated.