Our education system is broken, my opinion on the current state of education in the United States

I thought it would be interesting to write a post about my own views on the current system of education here in the United States. I like to think that my views are not too outrageous, and I hope there is at least some of you guys can agree with. Definitely feel free to leave some comments about what you guys think. I think that education is one of those topics, everyone can relate to.

What is the most important reason for learning?

It seems like a pretty simple question to answer is quite simple: it helps make us smarter; This helps to reduce the type of ignorance, which leads to various kinds of military action or conflicts; it provides a framework for the early lives of our children; it helps prepare our children for the future and get the job done. Perhaps some liberal bias manifests itself in my listing, but the fact is that I'm trying to make is that, perhaps, the answer is not as simple as it seems at first glance. If you have submitted a request for a dozen different people, I think it would be fair to say that you'll get a dozen different answers. For each person, the most important cause of education could possibly be a complex product experience, socioeconomics, identity, personal history, etc. For unemployed underachieving college graduate, the reason of preparation for future employment can be treated with a cynical eye than a college graduate in a high managerial position. Regardless of the point of view, the fact that there are many possible answers.

"Acceptable" Reason

Despite the many possible causes of education, there is one that seemed to emerge as the de facto motive: one of the reasons that seem to take much higher precedent for all other possible causes. This is the reason to complete its initial listing in the previous paragraph, with perhaps a little more determination: to get a job. It has almost become an anthem for the education system in this country, the USA. How many times have we heard ", if you want to get a good job, you have to go to college?" Or how about almost socially acceptable degradation of those who were at the bottom of the economic ladder? It frightened the middle class of the world: if you do not go to school or get a college degree, you end up working at McDonald's. Accession to the occupation of any personal value is considered there is hiding under the guise of caution, but that is for another post.

What I seem wrong

This is a topic, which I admit, it does not adequately reflected in my office; there's just too much to cover here and too many different opinions and ideas that can be crammed into one post. The issue is complex and without one or the right decision. And I know that there are some sad realities and economic considerations that complicate the matter even further. What I want to say though is that I think it is wrong that education seems to have become the measurement instrument through which human value as a citizen and even the person being evaluated. I think it is wrong that we have come to accept the equation of not graduating from high school or university admission to any personal failure or lack of. I think it's wrong, we use low-skill, low-wage jobs as a kind of warning to what happens if you do not go to school, or even if you do not visit the most "prestigious" schools I think it is wrong that the bids have acquired some kind of implicit inferiority compared to white-collar professions. And I think it's wrong that we have created an environment in which our children are competing with each other instead of working together.