Apart from my regular job in the morning, I also work as a part-time English teacher online. There are a variety of students that I have ranging from children to adults and even though to some it might seem quite easy, that isn't always the case. Children are much harder to get responses out of compared to their adult counterparts but adults are even harder to please. But that isn't the story for this topic.
There are times when I have free talk classes with my adult students mainly to grasp how much they have learned and whether or not they can hold their own in a discussion. One of the topics that we discuss during our free talk class is Education. It is an important issue for everyone mainly because we want our kids to have a good education. A lot of the Steemians are parents and there are also those who are still single but will eventually have kids of their own but I am sure they have also thought about this issue from time to time either for themselves or for their kids.
A question that I usually ask most of my students when talking about this issue is "What is the purpose of a child's education?" Because I have noticed a lot of Chinese people force their children to take extra classes during the weekdays and even on weekends. These kids barely even get the time to play and do other things...how will they build happy memories that will help them out in the future?
It is a good question and one that can spark a lot of discussions because we are always comparing and competing against the grades of others. I remember the movie 3 idiots that I watched a few years back...it's an Indian movie and to be honest I am not fond of watching those since a lot of them tend to be overly exaggerated but this one was recommended by a friend so I decided to watch it.
Education has become more about memorizing what the teacher teaches you in the Asian countries instead of understanding the concepts that you need to know. I mean look at it...understanding will last you a lifetime but if you memorize something then it gets put in the short term memory box and is eventually lost. So what exactly is the purpose of a child's education if we are teaching them in the wrong one?
What do you guys think? Let us all try and answer this question and see what faults we can find in the education system today and how better we can improve it for the benefit of all of us and our children.
Thank you for reading. Much love to all of you. <3
Kyrios
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