Education: The Key to Overcoming Poverty and Capitalism

Education is important because it prevents my friend Kenzie from becoming a stripper to support herself and her family. Education is important because it prevents my mother from becoming homeless. Education is important because it helps me bring food to the table. All of these are reasonable arguments as to why education is important. Although our society shouldn’t prioritize its importance based on of materialistic greed, it can’t pulled out of the equation completely. Some might say that capitalism is ruining our education system but that is simply not true. In like many ideology and other religious groups, there are always the extremists that blows things out of proportion. The system requires tests, homework, school assignment, for students

The way of studying the tests is the issue. I have encountered less than two different ways to study while i was in grade school. Everything was memorize and understand but no one taught us any learning methods that benefitted me for my SAT, ACT, or Accuplacers. It is important that schools acknowledge the fact that students learn different ways and guide the students by giving the tools. According to Fleming. G. there are 3 different learners, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. Character traits of visual learners could be good at spelling words, enjoys quiet study time, dreams in colors and good with sign language. Visual learners learn more effectively with graphs, charts, and many visual aids. The best test types for these individuals are diagramming, reading maps, essays after studying the outline, showing a process. However they are not very good at listen and respond type of questions. Auditory learners benefit from using word association to remember, recording lectures, repeating facts with eyes closed, and audiotapes. They do well in writing responses to lectures they’ve heard and oral exams, but not so well with writing answers in a timed tests. Kinesthetic learners learn through experience. They enjoy science lab, studies with loud music on, builds models, and fidgets a lot. Studying in short blocks, role playing, taking field trips, and using memory games will benefit their learning. They do the worst on long tests,

On the contrary in America, there are no mandatory teaching of the above. Character education contributes to helping students build emotional intelligence, the capacity in which that the person is able to recognize emotions of their own or others, the ability to utilize their own emotions towards their goals, and regulate your own emotions and help others to control theirs. Many other benefits come along with character education such as respecting others, accepting differences, understand the value of trustworthiness, and taking responsibility, which mainly prevents students from bullying others. According to a scientific journal, bullies tend to join badly influenced groups, get involved in drugs and alcohol, which eventually leads them to dropout of school. Also, victims of bullying have high chances of dropping out of school because it lowers self-value, increase stress, and causes the victims to feel vulnerable and unsafe. Respect doesn’t come naturally, it’s nurtured trait that increases the efficiency of communication, allows room for understanding emotions, and realize humility. Trustworthiness is very important for students to keep a healthy relationships with each other. Actions that contradict building trust could be gossiping, snitching, and acting differently in front of certain groups. Taking responsibility allows