The value of education

Today’s education is being criticized in all its aspect. Some people say that it has taken some levels of decadence: the way to teach and to learn changed unfortunately, making kids and young people of today not be a part of a good society in the future. And the rest of the people don’t care about the future lives and the educational system, that’s why most of well-known linguistics are expressing their opinion against the actual way of teaching.

Before our time, the education was simple: its purpose was just to make kids and young people attracted to the things that they were shown. The education was a tool to create an intelligent society with their own critical thought. But, only a few people maintain this philosophy. Nowadays the only thing that cares is to obtain the “good” life that someone told us. That’s how education evolves to an assembly methods and techniques, and the intellect is degraded.

Otherwise, we can be fortunate because of the technology we have: all the information of today breaks the amount of data of the last century. But because there’s a lot of information, it does not mean that all of them is useful. A future chemist will not obtain his degree putting the more information he can, but with the correct and necessary information. It can be said that, the Internet, is a cult generator.

But, related with technology, is the budget of the educational system. In my country the budget cuts are being disastrous for our students because the government do them for saving money. And also, they are taking away their chance to become what the students want. This makes the massive departure of future workers to other countries, which means that the budget cuts are a double-edged sword for the government. The education is not an expenditure, but an investment.

Another criticized topic of today´s education is the marks system. Students will not learn anything by their hands if a mark determines their future. This makes the students to be unable to have their own thought, and their heads are full with memorized information that will not have value in the future, or, in common situations, will be forgotten.

In brief, in spite of the type of education we have, the REAL purpose of education is clear and forceful: to educate citizens, fortifying them in the basics requirements of learning, giving the importance to the knowledge, abilities and values. We have the future in our hands, and we are going to fight for it.