Education System

Education-(noun); an enlightening experience.

To me, education is not only something that can be directly taught to you. Some forms of education can be something that one can acquire over time by listening or watching and not necessarily by being taught. One example of an indirect form of education would be music. Music is not something one can learn to be good at unless they have a good ear. If one does have a good ear, they can teach themselves by listening or watching.

School is not the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word “education”, but it is very essential in the distribution of education. Although, one who has not gone to school and or received an education is not considered stupid or unknowledgeable. William Shakespeare, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Mozart; these are all men who had no formal education but are still declared geniuses.

To answer the question “To what extent do our schools serve the goal of a true education”, one must think of their own definition of education first. Do schools really provide us with a true education? The education we are taught at schools only scratch the surface of the subjects we are taught. Another point that should be considered is the “dumbest generation” theory; if education is really only based off knowledge, then the schools nowadays are not doing a very good job at teaching true education.  One commonly-stated purpose of education is to prepare students for the “real world” or for the hardships of life, but the things we are taught in school do not prepare us for the real world.

So to answer the question above, I do not think schools serve the goal of a true education.