The purpose of education.

What does education mean to you?  For me, education is much more than simply sitting in a classroom lecture or knowing what you can do and how you can do it. For me, it is the ability to grow and mature, that is why it is so important and necessary. Education gives us a chance to have personal achievement and professional development, and to contribute to the greater good of society. However, our educational system is a complete failure because it is badly designed and it is variable, since it changes depending on the party in government.

One reason the current educational system fails is because it is unable to maintain the students excited about their own learning. From primary school, children are taught to memorise, to study the same words which appear in the textbook. Other elements, such as creativity, are not valued. And at secondary school, especially in the latest courses, students are tired of studying, of devoting numerous hours to learn things which many of them are unnecessary and useless. They just memorise everything in order not to fail their exams.

The big problem that our educational system has is that it varies every four years, when the party in government changes. This method should be removed because it does any good. One solution to this problem would be that all politicians gathered and discussed about which system is better. They should also ask the students of all ages which system they prefer, since students are the ones who have to study.

Some proposals to improve the system are: a personalized teaching based on the needs of the student; to make the most of the taught classes so as not to do additional work at home, in this way, students will be happier because they will have free time; and fianlly, creating a system which achieves that students enjoy learning. This could be through experience and practice. However, it would be necessary that the government invests money in education instead of cutting back it.

All in all, education is something essential and vital in order to have a bright future and so that a country can be developed. Nevertheless, our educational system is not the appropriate and the people in charge of the government do not use the necessary means to improve it. They need to understand that to pass the exams is not learning.