What is the purpose of education?

Well for me the purpose of education is to educate us or to teach us the right from wrong and the good from bad. Education is the most important thing we must learn in this world. If we are not an educated person we will look like a dog walking in the streets looking 4 nothing..being educated is really good because it helps us to live in a right way and it helps us enjoy ours selves in a way that we know what to do n the way that we are not violating the role for we are "EDUCATED"..

"-What is the goal of education?" Its to teach and expand the capabilities of the child. Many have gifts and education is to draw out those gifts in addition to helping kids learn about their society and the world in which they live in. From the latin educare to bring forth, nourish and raise. "-What is in your eyes the ideal form or philosophy of education? What does the ideal school look like?" My ideal school would make people freak out. First off, cut the fat in the bureaucracy and get rid of the garbage and corruption. Several systems spend so much money on education but their students perform pitifully compared to the rest of the world. If that doesn't say something major I don't know what will. And with this, cut out the criminal teachers as well! Why do you want perverts and freaks teaching your children and working in your school district! Its sick! Secondly, get parents and teachers really involved in education. A lot of people from both parties just see school as a daycare center, hence the major failure of some countries school system. Others don't even care and don't get involved even in their own kids studies! What kind of nonsense is this!? Get involved, get the teachers on the same page and get your kid(kids') heads back to the reality of education. Third off I do want uniforms. Schools without them always have people abusing the dress code, wearing some very vulgar or stupid crap and if everyone had the same uniform they have less reason to harass each other over what they wear. Plus teens are materialistic worms, take that away from them and guess what they may sit down, listen to the teacher and do the work! Fourth off I want the empty classes taken off the table. No independent study unless its really meant. No study hall. No teacher's aid unless its after school. Fifth get some real classes and a large variety of classes on the table. If some people are capable of doing college work, give them real AP classes that really reflect the curriculum (AP Advanced Physics, AP Government & Civics, AP Expert Level Calculus, etc) If others aren't as good make sure to have a wide variety of classes instead of the same carbon copy format of scaling a ladder. (i.e. Sciences: Earth Science, Life Science, Geology, Biology, Biology II, Chemistry, Chemistry II, Physics, Advanced Physics, Anatomy, Environmental Studies, etc). Also with this, encouragement of education and gifts of the student. If the student has an aptitude toward technology and wants to explore it, by all means have the class and materials to do so! Sixth, I want technology used in the schools prevalently but within reason. Homework is too heavy? Well we have a net system for the students desks and an overall web system so kids can log in get their homework, do their homework and submit it electronically (have kids put their homework on a back up in case of error). Thats how it was done at my college. Also with this, user forums can allow teachers and students to connect over multiple grade levels and people can really help each other out Seventh, the winning and top quality schools stay and make it competitive. Yes "ZOMG School Vouchers! We can't have that!" Whatever. Stateside its been nearly 40 years of failure in Public Screwals (oh sorry I meant "schools" really... I did...-_-) If schools are utter failures then they are gone! Quit producing garbage test results and students who can't even read in high school! Eighth, no nonsense approach to the students. You screw up royal you're gonna get punished. Start fights, your suspended no excuses, no racism crywolfs no nothing, you broke the rules and you're gonna learn that the real world doesn't accept it so it won't be accepted in school. You come back and screw up repeatedly you're gone, simple as that. You don't want to learn you have no place in school, have fun asking if people want fries with that. If you disrupt or bully other students you get suspended and you get extended time in juvenile. You come back and do it again, you're gone. Ninth, with the last point, stop lowering the standards. If students are failing, FAIL them. I understand if the student is actually trying, but chances are if its a failure its a student not doing what they are supposed to be! Curves should be used sparingly in case the teacher screwed up in teaching. They should not be free tickets to a passing grade for doing a pitiful amount of work. Lowering the grade scale doesn't help anyone either! 60% equaling passing, thats pretty pathetic. Would you trust people only able to do 60% of their job!? And some people advocate lowering the scale even further at a 50% pass rate. I'm surprised no one is flipping out over these things. Oh wait, then again apathy is the word of the world now. As long as #1 is okay, nothing else matters -_- How hard is it to do all of these things!? It shouldn't be, the top countries in education somehow have it down. So why it it so broken in other places? "-How can the current education system (either in Britain or any other country) be improved? Which country has the best educational system, and which country has the worst?" More competition, less nonsense. Tighten the standards. If you want who the best of the best is in education http://isc.bc.edu/PDF/t03_download/T03_M_Chap1.pdf - Math Scores http://isc.bc.edu/PDF/t03_download/T03_S_Chap1.pdf - Science Scores http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005003.pdf - 2005 comparison between participant/non-participant countries http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf011210.htm "-Should education be adjusted to the needs of a country, or should it have a global goal (i.e. should education around the globe serve the same goal)? " It should be adjusted to the growing world. Its a changing and evolving environment so education should be made competitive to match it.

What is the goal of education? Primary school is to teach you to read, write and count without using a calculator. Secondary school is to prepare you for general knowledge... and also to teach you a second language. From then on you are ready to learn a job... either in University or in a college. Should education be adjusted to the needs of a country, or should it have a global goal? I think in this day and age... for anyone with the intention of going into business... it should be both.

Hi soulsister, The education system needs to be reformed. I expect that is true of every country. There are people far more qualified then me to decide on the changes, but most people can see that changes are needed. I've always thought of education as learning to think for oneself. I think that I be agree with a Global goal rather then just the needs of a country because the world is fast becoming a Global village, with people moving all the time. Blessings.

The philosophy of education is the study of the purpose, process, nature and ideals of education. This can be within the context of education as a societal institution or more broadly as the process of human existential growth, for example, how it is that understanding of the world is continually transformed (be it from facts, social customs, experience, or even our own emotions).

i never satisfy our country's education,when i am still a student,escaping from school ,such an idea often occur to me,now i have been working and feel better than in school,the education system just like the evil to me

Great topic, and something I have bored my parents and boyfriend with for too long. I feel the same as you - I find that the school system and curriculum (here in Australia) to be extremely boring and limited. We are just fed and handed facts and figures like you said, and our new reforms mean that we basically only learn about the world from an Australian point of view. Unless we elect to do so in specialised courses, we only learn Australian politics and geography and history, and are given specific texts to study rather than have the freedom to learn and develop with things that interest us - have some input into our own education, lives and future. I have some great teachers that also aren't fulfilling their potential as educators, as they "teach" the same thing year after year by handing the kids a text book or writing some non-challenging things on a black board. Unfortunately, all the Federal Govt. seems to wish to achieve is getting students past Grade 10 studies so they can get straight into the workforce. Very few are encouraged to strive academically, especially not in public schooling, which is where it is needed. Far too much importance is placed upon the athletic students, but the high-achievers elsewhere go unnoticed. I feel that education and learning is essential, and I strive to learn as much as I can and grow and develop non-stop, mentally, physically and emotionally. It seems that I have no avenues to aid me in this, though. School is just there to make sure that kids can read and write to some extent, and remember a fact or long enough to pass exams. As far as your questions go: -The ideal school is without dress code, it embraces individuality and doesn't piss and moan about how students are bullied about their appearance. It puts learning - about anything and everything - first, before looks and pre-conceived ideas. It's a lot more open, the subjects are allowed to be taboo, and students aren't seen as being naive and unaware. They are given the chance to speak out and discuss the things they wish to, without being silenced and given sheet-work that doesn't challenge the mind. The idea in this ideal school IS to challenge, to make people think about things, reassess how they feel about something that has stigma attached to it and finally have the tools to make up their own minds - to explore their options. -I think that the education system requires global reform. All school systems, public and private, should follow a set curriculum (although dealing with differing issues for each nation and culture), and the same system. Australian and American school systems for example are so vastly different - the separation of 13 and 14 year olds from the 15-18 year olds, not getting a chance to associate with these older groups, always being limited. Even in Australia, the difference between states. In New South Wales, we sit the 'School Certificate Exam' in year 10, which is what is required for one to get employment if they leave school at this age, as well as 'HSC' (Higher School Certificate) in Grade 12, which is necessary for University. To the North and South borders, Queensland and Victoria, nothing of the sort is in place in grade 10, but there is some sort of examination at grade 12 for Uni/College acceptance. I feel that in one nation, the system should be the same for everyone. If one moves interstate and attends a new school, they should be in the same age bracket as the rest of their grade, and not re-learning something, or learning something above their level. We should be given equal opportunity to achieve. Anyway, I think I've rambled enough, I might just curl up with a cuppa, a movie and my boyfriend ;) Mal.

education has always been controlled by the government and probably always will. the purpose of most education is to obviously educate people, but in a way that the government sees. I do think that education should be adjusted to the needs of a country, but i don't see or have a good idea of how that could be accomplished. for me education is to widen ones horizons and give u the chance to learn what u really wanna learn.