Education system and it's effect on our society..

No I don't mind, I would love to read them, but I had to bookmark the link, I am almost done with my notes for my synopsis and it would be totally awesome if I can get a first draft done by tomorrow and even better, the final done by the day after.. (I hope that is not wishful thinking...)

It's said, one should not postpone planned things but even I'm very good at it..that's because I'm so lazy..

Hi carmelanirel, It's great to know that you care about the moral values and teach your son about right and wrong but most of the people in this society don't understand that and that's why kids grow with wrong mindset and do irresponsible things in society. In India one can not buy a weapon without licence and it's really tough to get a legal weapon. The same kind of rule they should have in US as well, that'll avoid this kind of horrible incidents. If you don't mind reading Hindu ancient good stories, you can check the link which I've mentioned in my first response. Thanks for your response!

I don't think if I agree with you completely, when a child goes to school, the main purpose is to learn the basics of this world. If there are subjects taught in school which are not relevant for his survival in this world then those subjects should be excluded from the syllabus, a teacher is supposed to teach everything that is required. At the same time, I'm not saying that the parents should not be taking care of the children, they should also teach them the moral values. If you read the other comments in this discussion, there are mothers who teach these things to their kids. But it doesn't happen in all the countries in this world, parents who are uneducated, they don't take care of their kids and that's why we see violence and criminal activities in society. Thanks for your response, StLouisMetroTutoring!

If we say basics, that means, the set of rules that are necessary for a human being to follow in the society. When you say more educated people in US, if the education system is incorrect then what kind of educated people we'll have in society. I mean, if you are thirsty, a cup of tea will not be something that you'll need, though it's a liquid. Similarly, what kind of knowledge one should necessarily have should be decided carefully. I feel moral dilemmas are very rare in our society. E.g. what happened in India or US was wrong you can ask anyone on this planet, they'll agree with this but still there are a few human beings who did it. That's lack of education/knowledge. It's not easy to follow the right path and do everything correctly, after all we are humans, bound to make mistakes but there should be a system to make sure that we don't cross limits. USA is far more better than other developing countries like India. Here in India society is very tough for women and unfortunately, I don't see any reason why it'll change in near future.

The problem comes in when we begin to define what is required. What is relevant to our survival? What are the basics? Are your basics the same as my basics? Whose morals should we teach? Who are we going to rely on to determine these things? With the incredible growth of technology, the amount of information has doubled in the last 10 years. So we can't just teach knowledge. We'd never be able to. So what do people do when they come across new information? How do we get new inventions? How do people decide what's right or wrong? Critical thinking. We take what we know, put it together and come up with something new. This is a learned skill. Who is teaching us how to think critically? It's not becaue parents are uneducated that there is violence in the world. The United States is one of the more educated countries. We don't seem to have a problem giving more than our share of violence. It has nothing to do with education. That's a whole other topic. Critical thinking is the skill we use when we are faced with moral dilemmas. We can only teach so many possibilities. If this happens, you do this. What happens when we come across a possibility that hasn't been directly taught? If we have critical thinking as a skill, we use what we do know and apply it. We are able to see new possibilities. You'd be amazed at the number of young people that are completely unable to apply what they know to new situations. I believe this sis what sould be taught in schools. Not the knowledge for the sake of knowledge so much as how to think about things. I'm not saying skills and knowledge shouldn't be taught, I'm saying our focus is wrong. The focus shouldn't be on how much knowledge we can attain, it should be on what can we do with the knowledge we have and how can I go about finding out more?

Hi Vandana, During these holidays I'm spending almost all the time here on myLot and at the same time I'm reading news also. After carefully looking into details of all these events I've realized the very basic things that we are taught is incorrect. Let's take the religious perspective, I'm guessing that you're a Hindu. I proudly say that I'm a Hindu, I "sometimes" go to temple and I'm do believe in god. But if I believe in my religion, then that says, I need to look for moksha of my soul and for that I need to free myself from all the worldly things and my karma should be good and I should not do any papam but I know that I don't implement all this in my daily life and that's sufficient for me go to hell. Now the question is why even after knowing the result I don't implement the right things? Here comes the education system and the society in picture, in my schooling days, I was rated as one of the bright students, my family, my friends and my schools staff everyone looked at me as a good student. I was told to score more, I did that, I was class topper but I was not expected to practice the basic rules of life, i.e. Speaking truth, not speaking bad words etc. This world is like objective type question, there could be n number of wrong answers here but there is only one right answer, if my education system does teach me the right path, then what's the point of having such an education system? I'm so frustrated with this, I feel I can write a book on this topic, yesterday, I read this blog and now I'm wondering what I'm doing in this world. Check this out, I'm sure, even you'll have so many questions after reading this: http://moralstories.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/great-people-are-always-humble/ There are so many stories which can teach us all those things that the education system could teach us in 12-16 years. Thanks for your response!

As you can see, I've hell lot of wrong things within me, how would I judge others, I don't know if I would be able to correct myself. Only god can save me from this messed up society, life and other worldly things..

We are living a life with wrong priorities, gradually we are forgetting all the main rules of the living and these kind of scenarios are only a few examples of that. All we have to do is to change ourselves and things will be in place automatically, education system is a very few good things and those are also not practically implemented and we can see the result of that.