EDUCATION

                             

In our first class, we worked with the concept of education: what and how important it is, how people view this concept, if there are problems when we try to work with it and if there are, how can we manage to improve education. In short, we tried to deal with one of the most important things, in case it is not the most important one, in society.

Thus, education is the process of learning or teaching not only in the academic field, but also in outside the classroom, for example at home. It refers to the process of learning and teaching, the process of acquiring knowledge.

Regarding the problems around education, we think that students limit themselves at schools for many reasons. For instance, knowledge finds boundaries at school because it is limited in a strict set of subjects: maths, English, gymnastics, science, etc. Also, students at secondary education usually sit on a chair trying to listen to 7 teachers per day, who provide them a lot of information; unfortunately, learners hardly remember a few things of the lessons.

Where is the focus of this problem? We think the cause of it lies on, again, many factor. Firstly, on parents or students' background because people are commonly confused about the term of education: we live in a society where education is usually conceived as the results students get represented by numbers (marks). Secondly, on those particular teachers that are not motivated or do not like what they are doing and, in general, on teachers that sometimes forget their role as educators and act as simply workers just interested in students' results from 1 to 10. Consequently, all causes we can think of inevitably bring us to the action of the government. Education depends on governments: they take control or not of teachers, they design programs, subjects and timetables and they design aims and goals.

Videos: 

This is one video that we saw in class: Nash Euilibrium

This is other of the videos played in class: Ken Robinson. Do schools kill creativity?

Finally, this is a video that represents very well our opinion about problems on education. We hope you like it!