The Value Of Education In America

Despite spending most days in my own home advancing my education, instead of engaging in the publicly provided schools, there are certain days of the week, which days are of less importance, when I venture out on various errands in the city. On these errands, I often run into individuals in my peer group who have just left the local secondary school. They sit, or stand, loitering near stores and in parking lots without any motivation to go home and continue their education through assigned studies. When I ask them why this is, they simply respond that they find the work monotonous and pointless. If you needed algebra to do your job, learn it when that occurs, don’t waste time learning things you can just forget after the school year is over. Then, if I ask the elderly store clerk as I finish my shopping, she will explain to me that the current generation needs to work harder to compete with other countries. School should be a year-round activity, she will tell me.

A solution must, in some way, re-approach our understanding of education and modify our academic climate to be a motive instead of a deterrent. Over the past three weeks, I have considered this problem. Each night, as I fell asleep, I hoped that the next day would grant a new insight into a solution. Finally, however, I believe I have come upon a solution. A solution that will not only list the spirits of our youth, but it will also jettison the United States’ GDP beyond that of any other