The future in education...Have you noticed any changes? Talk about it!

In my country, the quality of education declined. There is an obvious decrease of passers in the qualifying examinations and some schools were not allowed anymore to reoffer the same courses (quota of passers decreased).The gov't believes that adding another 2 years in the secondary level will improve learning! Unless the main factors are targeted, adding more years spent in school won't answer this problem.. The quality teachers are also gone. They are leaving for abroad for better pay. The other better teachers are unemployed. The school.More and more private schools are being put up and government schools remain few, neglected and unimproved. Students are in dilemma ( government schools are fully packed and poor in facilities/human resources while private schools demand high tuition fees). Sometimes let's point our finger to the student. The teacher is very good but there's something wrong with the student. When I was a student, there were still few techno gadgets around and we have more quality time for learning. Today, with all the gadgets around expect techno hobbies that lure students. There's the poor teacher whose teaching methods are not effective. If you read the "Noli Me Tangere" by Dr. Jose Rizal. Problems in education were mentioned and what's more important-the author predicted the future of education and it's happening now. The book was published in 1887. The government.The elementary school bldg where I cam from remained as is after 30 + years.The pine walls have stood hard over the years and they are waiting for a rescue. How comfortable is the pupil sitting next to it during the rainy season? And how many more government school bldgs are worse than this in the country?Dear president??? These are just some of my observations in my country. Every concerned parent fears for the kind of 'school' that her child will face. I am one of these parents, are you?

When I was in school, I recieved a quality education. My Mom is an elementary school principal. In comparison with other countries, I feel that the US educational system is not progressing. In my view, this is due to the fact that schools and teachers are not provided the support and resources that they need to meet expectations successfully. This is just one reason why No Child Left Behind was such a failure.

I think school plays an important role to our self and to our society. I believe that are society can rise if most of the people are educated. School can definitely change a person but it still depends on a person how he can handle peer pressure and stuffs like that. School teaches you things that you can use in the future. It also helps you to control and how to keep up with a lot of people. Time management and decisions are still depends on the person itself. I have nothing against with school but i just hope that the government supports education more. Too many students or lack of chairs can affect the mood inside the classroom. We also need to keep them comfortable for them to learn a lot

Interesting documentaries, thanks for mentioning them, I'd like to check them out. I was talking about the school systems with my mother the other day and she said how in her days, there were a lot student protests and that she sees how that has decreased a lot. I'm not too sure of what's happening nowadays in schools but during my time, 10-15 years ago, I was just focused on getting out! I remember hating school and it was just survival.. socially. I was not inspired at all during my school days.

In the UK things just seem to go from bad to worse, for a start toddler groups used to teach kids but now it has to be 85% child led or something ridiculous, that pretty much just means dress up. When I arrived at primary school I could do letters (just not the tricky ones) now teachers I expected to go from nothing to sentences in just as many years. Then there's the actual primary schools, I was a pretty smart kid in primary school, as was one of my friends however negligence from the teachers meant we had to constantly repeat things. In fact in my final year we had to spend every maths lesson online (in which we just played games, come on we were kids) because none of the teachers were allowed to teach us anything further. Then secondary schools and college, they constantly bombarded you with their own language, for instance in assemblies they no longer referred to a school as a 'school' but as a 'learning community'. They constantly encouraged you to ask questions and told you to make mistakes but yet actually doing these things lead to punishment, I know of one kid and his friend who busked on school ground at lunch time, were told to stop, continued and then were excluded for two days and expelled. Some teachers tried to make things better but most were just there, just teaching, just earning. It disgusted me.