Educational Conundrum

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Education is the most important factor in developing any country because it is responsible for raising a knowledgeable population or oblivious generations that may be graduated from schools or even universities. Education reform should thus be at the top of any country’s agenda.

While there are many factors that need to be addressed, the following three factors are key to ensuring sustainably excellent education: (1) getting the right people to become teachers; (2) developing teachers into effective instructors; and (3) ensuring that the system is able to deliver the best possible instruction for every child.

One of the main reasons behind the educational problems is the unhealthy environment in which teachers work. In most schools, classes are overcrowded with students; each class may have sixty students if not more. Moreover, the teachers’ income is not sufficient to maintain a suitable life standard, which has led to the rise of the private lessons phenomenon.

Furthermore, teachers must be well trained in the latest methods of teaching to face and handle any kind of trouble with the students. Ministries of education must have serious exams and tests for these teachers because not anyone is able to teach and manage students at different ages.

Changing the way of teaching and the subjects taught are the most important steps that must be taken to improve the educational system. Subjects taught at schools need to meet the students’ mental abilities; in other words, every level must have the proper information that fit its students’ minds according to their age group.

Moreover, subjects must be helpful to the students in their practical life later, so that they do not have to memorize them just to pass the exams. This will help students think properly and solve any problem they face in the exams or otherwise, as well as retain the information easily because it fits their age’s mental ability.

Lack of technology, adequate laboratories, and libraries are amongst the defects in many schools; unfortunately, most schools still do not have any kind of technological devices. School libraries hardly have useful books to use, and the laboratories neither have any proper physical equipment nor any chemical compounds to help students know and visualize what they are taught in class. This is because of the absence of an appropriate funding.

Governments must take serious and correct decisions to eliminate these problems as quickly as possible because the children are the hope of a better future of countries. Teachers need to be better trained to become more qualified, and, hence, be able to motivate students, so that they in turn become productive within their community, which will eventually reflect on the economy and therefore stability and prosperity.

References

http://www.ukessays.com/

http://www.civicpole.net/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk


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This article was first published in print in SCIplanet, Spring 2015 issue.

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