Is school is the only way to start our education..........?

I believe that everyone should have a strong educational foundation that they can use to build on once they get older and discover what their interest is. Some courses may seem to be a waste of time but turn out not to be in the future. For instance, I have always liked to write and was not very good at math so why take it? The answer to that question is because later on in life I became interested in computer programming and that involves math skills. Had I not been forced to take all of those boring math classes, I never would have been able to pass the computer classes I needed to pass in college.

Having said that, I also agree that every student has his or her own learning style and schools should strive to identify which sytle best suits every student and allow them to learn in that way. Learning should be a positive thing...not a negative one.

Some times I do feel that the pattern of education is useless in our country but the starting education is must to be taken from school as it is the starting steps of a child towards education world.
but I am against the middle and higher education where only learning means every thing and to get good results is the final step.
Instead of this it should have been practical work more than theory and the students in their student life itself be compelled to do some extraordinary inventions and discoveries.

i too like the montessorie form of teaching but i feel somewhere that schools provide you with the basic things you are definitely going to need in your life ahead.edison may not have studied about electrons but he definitely learned sharing things in society, dealing with peers,coping with circumstances, abiding by rules which schools do teach though not in the form of laid down curriculum. i think the current system to be fine for foundation building and advocate flexibility at a bit grown up level when the child understands the world a little better. as child i used to hate the arts and crafts classes but as a therapist i find it to be a strong medium of expression and interpretation of intrapsychic materials.i wish i had focussed on my arts classes a bit more. moreover there are only 1 in a million kids with those extraordinary inclination for a particular thing or topic, things can be customised for them.rest of the average children would more likely to benefit with the school system

I think school is not the only way to get educated. But school is the best system that could install in the minds of our children the basic foundation for knowledge.At home we can learn the values education and all the daily aspect of living life. At school we could have the interaction that is needed for us to practice what we have learned at home. Though schooling is boring. It teaches disciple for the students. Everything that is being learn in the school seems to be irrelevant in life. But it shouldn't be our mentality that what we are learning today must be practiced instantly. Our accumulated learnings helps us in dealing with our life on a daily basis. How could we accumulate such massive knowledge if theres no systematic way of doin it? And that system is the school that we all find boring.

When I was young I had thoughts that were very much like yours. I found that school was a jail and I couldn´t wait for the day it would end. Now that I´m old, I look back I discover that that concentration camp gave me many useful things that at that moment I did not value.
One of the important things is that school gives us a sense of belonging. You learn there to deal with other people. Some are nice and some you´d love to torture. I have a friend from the time we were 11 years old. Our friendship has lasted distance and time. I´m now 64 and she lives in the US and I live in Chile. WE visit each other for hours through skipe.
But even though many of the things they teach you at school will not be useful directly, they will give you a scope of what life, society, people are. I hated to study History when I was at school but it came handy when I went to Europe.
Columbus did not come out of an UFO. He had heard and read what other people had written, he accepted some things and rejected others. That gave him the background to start with his idea. But even then, he wasn´t so bright as to discover that he had come to a new world. It was Americo Vespucci who did it (maybe he wouldn´t have done it without Columbus though.)
I could write for a long while about this subject as it is one of my main interests. . But I will probably bore you.
If you want to contitue talking to me, please do so. I´d love to hear what you think about this.
Happy postin!!!

The school is not the only way and not the start of education. Our home is our first school. We get education on how to urinate, how to change our clothes, how to eat properly, how to take a bath, how to brush our teeth, how to tie and untie our shoe, how to walk, how to respect others, etc. The formal school is the extension of the education we are receiving at home.

Education is wealth. It's something that nobody can take away from you. But I also believe that the basic training starts in the house wherein a child first learn his/her principles and values. But i don't agree with that montessori thing letting the child to do only what they like to do because it's not encouring. How can a child grow and improve if they stuck themselves doing only what they like to do.

hi earndeep,

education for me starts from home. school is secondary to home. my first teacher/s are my parents and school is just a secondary setting to academically learn things in preparation for my future.

experiences along the way are considered the best teacher in life. it will give you the opportunity to decide for yourself, best ways/decisions to handle things and will make you a better person.

it is you who will make education worthwhile... you may be enrolled in a public, private and exclusive school, it will always be YOU who will make the difference how you maximize your efforts, talents, skills, opprtunity to become the best that you can be.

Yes it important to go school hence this will be asset when you go the outside world and apply for a job and make money right? That's why it is important to have a good Education Foundation this is the only thing that cannot be stolen from you, right? If you have the financial capabilities it's better to pursue a higher education such as PhD and Masteral since this is a great achievement for yourself, and you will not be having hard time finding a job when you have this.

well i believe education is the center of good foundation in the society.being educated or to have a degree have may potential to get a job and personally develop in personality.school helps their students to find which suitable courses they like and its develop their confidence in achieving their goals in life.