| SamuelRSmith said: ---------- As for education, I agree that our education system is up the shitter, but I also think that the whole education system of the world is wrong, and I believe that the "core" subjects are given too much value over humanities and the arts. Simply put, I believe the education model that we use is completely outdated and based on industrialist-Victorian principles. |
I think the opposite. The uptake of 'soft' degrees that don't lead to graduate level jobs is huge and wasteful. The number of people taking A-level just because they get £30 a week (I don't) to end up in the same job they could have got with GCSEs is similar.
The way we teach the core subjects could be better, as only those with aptitude enjoy it and progress. But I think the main problem in schools is discipline, looking at the contrast between the two state high schools I've been in (one with a '4' from Ofsted and one that is very high in league tables) the difference was that in the latter the kids respected the teachers and did not disrupt the lessons by talking or messing about.
