The Importance Of Education In Education

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How did we make it this far as humans after being born into this world? As kids, we rely on our parents, school system, and even our teachers to show us what we need to know and learn (we need to know right from wrong). This comes with the experience we grasp as children and students, which really becomes who we are by the experiences we undergo growing up (understanding good and bad choices). The answer is simple, that as humans, we need another human being to feed and nurture us. Without parents, babies are incapable of growing in this world. Experience has a lot to do with where we are raised, how we are raised, and the mindset we hold within ourselves set by the environment we are developed in as children. We did not choose our parents …show more content…

Again relying on our parents, teachers, and schools to guide us toward the right and good decisions to further the educational experiences we can have until we are mature enough to recognize those kinds of choices on our own. Children are not capable of controlling their own educational experiences because maturity and making good educational choices will have to be made for themselves by understanding smart decisions, goes to the extent of being mature enough to run the show for themselves. If they were in control, our society today would be dramatically affected with the skills and knowledge that humans need to acquire in order for people and students to operate in any community today.
Malcolm Gladwell the author of Outliers tells a story about a middle school girl named Marita who is stuck in poverty. She made a bargain with one of the …show more content…

Pink thinks that this generation is going to be “The Homeschooling Revolution” because of our schooling system here in the United States. He did studies on school test scores compared to home-schooled test scores and homeschooled children scored better than students who are in a public school. By spending more time with adults and less time around children, the homeschooled children became mature at a younger age. Homeschooled children are able to choose their educational experience because the student is free to choose what, and how to learn. Whereas in the school they choose what they want students to learn and study during a time that they choose. Homeschoolers freedom is far greater than traditional public school. According to Pinks article approximately 90 percent of home-schoolers are predominantly white and 87 percent have annual incomes under $75,000, which means that little to none are that are in poverty are being homeschooled and don’t have the opportunity to be homeschooled. Public school may be out for students in the future because homeschooling is becoming dominant if it can create stable jobs for this

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