The Purpose Of Education :: Economics

The Purpose Of EducationEducation is an chief(prenominal) eccentric in every childs life, and here incapital of Singapore, every child has to gather compulsory education. I believethat education is an important part in helping a child grow up, tomake sure that a child grows up into a sensible and responsible adult.It is also important to make sure the child grows up into anindependent mortal with the skills obligatory to be in the workforce ofa country.In order to hand that, I feel that education has to be introducedat a five-year-old age. That way, children would be used to the environment,and be able to study much effectively when the child gets older, andto a greater extent subjects are introduced.However, education cannot be too adapt towards an academic approach.For example, I feel that the education establishment in Singapore is tooexam-oriented. Though in Raffles Institution, there is no more focuson examinations, there still common tests and quizzes. Furthermore,ot her schools, specifically neighbourhood schools, still focus onexaminations, which I think is a dangerous pitfall, since schoolsshould not exist solely to make another person more knowledgeable. Itshould instead be used to help make the childrens minds morecreative, and not so rigid, in the sense that they would be able to notion at things at different perspectives.This is clearly represented in griffon. Mr. Hibler, a normal teacherin Five Oaks, follows the education system very faithfully. Paragraph55 shows that Mr. Hibler had a lesson plan ready. Thus he was probablyjust going to tell the students some information around Egyptians. Ifeel that this kind of teaching, however, is not useful, since it justspoonfeeds the children with information. This information would beforgotten by the students very quickly after a a couple of(prenominal) years. Next, weread on about how Ms. Ferenczi teaches the students. Mr. Hibler fallsill and is replaced by little girl Ferenczi. lose Ferenczi , on the otherhand, does not strictly follow Mr. Hiblers lesson plans, exclusively insteadshe gives the students a lot of room for imagination. For example, inparagraph 64, Miss Ferenczi is supposed to talk about pyramids.However she asks the students to think of what was inside. Then shegoes on to say that the nature of pyramids were to guide cosmic energyforces into a concentrate point. However, we know that this is nottrue. Thus she is apparently trying to encourage the children to hypothesize different things.This would be what I think the purpose of education should be. Itshould be to give children a chance to express their creativity, to