Education Thread

[Skater]

Education is just a mess really. 90% of it is not needed. Education should be about setting up for later life, and the majority of what is taught in schools is never used when you have left.

It has carried on into college as well. I mean I'm studying ICT, fair enough, I'll need it, then there's Media, right, well I want to be a journalist so I'll need it, but Psychology and Sociology are both unnecessary.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

Well I think you're not getting me. Sure, it isn't used once you're out of school, but it helps you distinguish and think for yourself, YOUR career. How were I supposed to know I like Science if I wasn't taught the others that I DON'T like?

 

[Skater]

Then make it a choice. I didn't want to study religion for 8 years but I HAD to. I'm a bloody atheist! I should have had a choice after, say, a year.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

Its because one's not mature enough at the age you are talking about. The opinion you've formed now is BECAUSE you studied things.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

BTW - Psychology should be compulsary. We all use it in everyday life. If we were all educated in psychology and the workings of the human mind, there would be a lot fewer conflicts and we'd all learn how to get along better, and how to overcome our own demons and insecurities.

I thought the point until grade 8 was to give us a bit of everything, and then let us choose from high school onwards. Hence me dropping Bio/Geography/History and sticking with Physics, Chem, Eco, Accounts, Math, Lit, English, IT, and Travel. Then in AS/A, you further specialise. Math, Physics, Chem and Psych.

So it is already what you said Lee. If you don't like maths, you shouldn't have ever taken it from O levels onwards.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

This is what I've been saying if you read my posts Zorax.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

This is what I've been saying if you read my posts Zorax.

But I couldn't be bothered to read your posts Kshitiz

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

But I couldn't be bothered to read your posts Kshitiz

So my bouncer actually worked. Hmm... cool

 

[ste_mc_efc]

There should be a larger scope for specialising as a pupil. I couldn't drop art and music until the start of year 10. 3 years of secondary school I had those lessons which a) I sucked at B) did not enjoy and C) did not take any interest in. I became *a little* disruptive in those lessons, I'll admit that. But I shouldn't have been in them as there was no point to it at all. I was never ever going to take them for GCSE, the teacher knew this, I knew this and it was a complete waste of time. Time which could and should have been used much more efficiently.

The UK education system is far, far too rigid.

 

[Cricketman]

Once you reach highschool here in America, YOU choose what classes you take. You only have to fill out a certain number of credits for the core classes (4 math, science and english, 2 social studies, PE, and foreign language)

This gives you two blocks per semester, four whole hours a day, to do fun classes or things you are interested in doing - like film, photography, etc.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

Its everywhere like that in High School. When I began 11'th this time I was offered what I wanted to choose.

 

[Highlander999]

Probably, but I didn't need to know all that about sciene either. Biology would have done me, learning about the human body. Physics involves too much maths, and Chemistry is just ridiculous. My philosophy is learn what you need.

Be an artist like me Pfff who does maths and science

Good lesson plans:

English - teach children to read and write, study two books (I would choose To Kill A Mockingbird and Lord Of The Flies).
Maths - teach children to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers. Allow them to choose another aspect to learn if wanted.
Science - just teach children the workings of the human body.

Brilliant book although it helped we had a brilliant English teacher for that. She died though the term after that

There should be a larger scope for specialising as a pupil. I couldn't drop art and music until the start of year 10. 3 years of secondary school I had those lessons which a) I sucked at B) did not enjoy and C) did not take any interest in. I became *a little* disruptive in those lessons, I'll admit that. But I shouldn't have been in them as there was no point to it at all. I was never ever going to take them for GCSE, the teacher knew this, I knew this and it was a complete waste of time. Time which could and should have been used much more efficiently.

The UK education system is far, far too rigid.

We win. We locked a supply French teacher in a broom cupboard for the whole lesson The education system isn't rigged, the bloody uni admission;s are. If your are foreign they will accept you as long as you pay the fee's of a non-Brit. Edinburgh Uni is a good example of that

 

[Leggie]

Once you reach highschool here in America, YOU choose what classes you take. You only have to fill out a certain number of credits for the core classes (4 math, science and english, 2 social studies, PE, and foreign language)

This gives you two blocks per semester, four whole hours a day, to do fun classes or things you are interested in doing - like film, photography, etc.

That just reinforces my opinion on the US being a far better place in terms of enjoyment for students...

 

[Animator!]

Enjoyment possibly. But not the schools system in general. The 'No Child Left Behind' Policy has screwed over a hell of a lot of schools and colleges.

 

[Magz]

Cricketman are American high schools really like the steretypical TV and movie ones?.