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The Public Education System

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Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist, says, “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think”. Mead refers to the importance of teaching children how to think for themselves for a successful, future life, rather than instructed based on pure rote memory academics. I have noticed that the presently established educational system, wants all students to think in the same manner and makes education industrialized. Today’s dysfunctional educational system seems to ignores parental rights, have a materialistic agenda, and impose on citizens.

For one, the public education system today ignores parental rights. The role of the state in education, should not suppress or substitute, but rather assist the family’s right to form their …show more content…

Education should be geared towards the building of character; however, today’s education system’s primary goal focuses on academics that make children “career and college ready”. For example, in public school, the system placed my unprepared, five-year-old sister in several sessions of data knowledge testing that proved to be inconclusive, rather than offering extracurricular activities that she needed to encourage maturity. Through this it became clear to me that they focused on preparing her for unnecessary testing rather than exploring and developing her mind and body in alternative ways. On another note, my friend Christina graduated and will get married next year, and she chose to become a stay at home mom to take care of her home and family. This seems a viable option because while homeschooling, she prepared herself with the skills necessary to manage and govern a household. In this sense, public education ignores the personal aspects of education, in order to teach and advance students strictly according to the curriculum they find …show more content…

With all this said, aspects of education may serve well for a restricted group of individuals, but certainly not all. Another reason I disagree with the educational system is because of how anti-faith it is. A free country’s educational system should allow, if not encourage people to follow their faith and beliefs. Unfortunately, today, government seems to interfere and not allow faith related concepts on school campuses. God gave parental authority to fathers and mothers to overlook and see the proper upbringing of their children, including in spiritual, moral, intellectual, and ethical education. Though the public educational system may make this task difficult, we must pursue God’s holy will with good upbringing through proper

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