They say feed a man for a day and feed him once, and teach him fishing, and feed him for a lifetime.
Only metaphorically when you think about the new “fish and feeding model“, education comes on the forefront of it all.
Education is the forerunner to something really big and far beyond its size.Education creates,reciprocates, and attracts.
It is a key to empowerment, to acknowledgement of self dependence, to being aware of the abyss between the good and the bad. Of course, not all educated men and women are righteous men and women, but education just gives hands on experience of what it can achieve.
Back in my school, I used to be fascinated by the word competition. Thinking back now, I cannot really say if it were healthy or not, just that all I wanted it back then was to TOP them all.
Education is right when it teaches you what a healthy competition is, learning from others, adding on to what we already know, and sharing the pearls of knowledge like tiny droplets of water on an arid desert. Education is righteous, when you can stand up and say “I believe “,and die for it.
Sadly our conventional schools do not teach the kids what a healthy competition is , there is nothing wrong in the system, just that , there is something that needs to be here, and isn’t , Let get it !
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“If we dont help each other, who will..”
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You are right. Competition is a part of education. Healthy competition challenges student’s skills and helps them understand their potential. Parents tend to enroll their children in conventional schools because they believe that facing sharp competition helps a child to score more academically. Marks is not the only yardstick for academic achievement. As you have mentioned, conventional schools emphasize a great deal on bookish knowledge and do not teach kids about healthy competition. But there are a few schools that focus on creative thinking of students and treat every student as a unique individual thereby helping them to bring out their best. My son who studies in Inventure Academy was taught at a very early age that competition is good as long as its healthy. This school also provides opportunities for children to learn, and demonstrate their learning in creative, academic and plenty of other ways. Inventure Academy has helped my son to be self-reliable and confident. The quality of education in our country should be changed to strengthen students to face new challenges.
I have to agree to what has been said by Inventure Academy. They do have a good mix between the traditional and modern day education. From what I have seen children are really encoraged to experiment and experience things by themselves. I was really proud of my friend’s son, studying in Grade 8 there who is participating in the Intel Science fair, and the kind of research he is doing is fabulous. I know my daughter has just started school and has adventures in her own class, but to think of it continuing all through school (not primarily academics) is satisfying. I feel like have made the right choice with Inventure.