THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION (PRÁCTICA 9)

Education is what life is all about. I have been studying for 18 years and I cannot bear in mind a single moment when I had not been thinking about my education or exams to pass. We live influenced by our future, our life plans. We want to study, to be educated because we want to work somewhere we can do something we like doing. However, as this professor claims education has been badly defined since it is more important to motivate students to learn on their own, to use technology and to inspire them than to force them to pass tests.

Education has been badly planned. It is only focused on passing tests. You can spend your lifetime studying and your only motivation would be to pass your exams. At school, at secondary school then at university you only want to pass exams. You would only rest and not think about passing exams when you get your degree and start working. Schools and universities have in common the fact that they try to prepare students to pass their exams so they are able to pass courses as well. However, it is simple way of assessing them; it would be much harder in a different way.

Technology is a very valuable base on everyone’s researches. Nevertheless, in most cases technology only helps to make it easier to just find plenty of information and not to learn from it. In the past, if you wanted to learn something, you had to look for it on several books and read the whole text then you selected what you needed. Nowadays, you can easily find information on the Internet, so you do not need to truly understand what you are studying. Technology is an important issue for the researches that you may need to make and nothing but a not-challenging matter.

Education should be focused on helping students to learn on their own. Being educated should allow people to be inspired and to always want to do their best. However, in your studies you will always find subjects you are not interested in; the matter of it is to learn, not to just memorise.  Education ideology is to promote people’s desires of outdoing. For instance, there lies the key to the development of science: always in need of more and better discoveries.

Overall, education is well when preparing students to carry out great labours. Besides this, measures should be taken to develop any different educating plans to inspire people. As we, the ones who study do not want to see education being regarded as an obligation just for your future but for your life.