education past present and future

Education, without it we would all be mindless wonders wanderingaround
the globe. Education is an important factor in our lives, but the past,
present, and future of education is changing. And change it will until our
education system is the best in the world. In the past, Education in
America was plain and simple. We've all heard the stories of how our
ancestors used to have to walk to school 5 miles in the snow in the heat
of summer. These shameless exagerations were meant for us to think
that school back in the "good ole days" was very dificult and surpassed
the level of difficulty students today have. In reality, school, although most
early schools were combonation classes with a variety of age groups as
students. Almost each individual was given an equal amount of personal
help from the teacher. Also, life wasn't as complecated as they are now.
One teacher would teach the whole class a limeted variety of subjects
such as arithmatic and english. Education was just eaiser when it first
became popular. Nowadays, in the present, school not only is a place
to learn, it's a place to stress out. As I walk through the halls all students
seem to have that academic nervousness. If you listen to the
conversations that go on in the hall it's always, "Ohh my gosh, Becky! I'm
going to have a fat cow! I think I'm getting a B in my chemistry class, and
that is going to ruin my record." Pressure is constantly put upon students
to get "straight A's" It is very rare when a student will not shoot for an A
on a quiz. It's human nature to succeed, but with the pressure put on us
by the teachers, parents, peers, and colleges, it's a heavy load to handle.
Now, scientists recently did an expiriment. They placed a child in a
room with some brand new toys. They left him there for a couple of hours
and he did not play with them. The scientists puzzeled took the boy aside
and asked him why he did not play with the toys. The boy replied that he
did not want to break them. So, scientists then took another child and
placed him in a room filled with horse manure. The boy was having fun
swimming around in it, having a blast with the horse manure. When the
scientists asked the boy why he played with the horse manure, the boy

replied, "Well, with all of this horse manure, there has to be a pony
somwhere." This story best relates to our education system. Now while
students may think that school is a waste of time, it has been proven that
it is really the key to lead us to the pony at the end of the rainbow. While
we may not like school, it will always benifit us in the long run. The
furture of education is changing ever so rapidly. New classes are starting
to emerge from the midst of old traditional classes that many new
students have failed. It may be hard for some of us to face, but some
students just can not learn the same why as our parents did. Today,
students need more hands on projects. They need things they can relate
to the real world. Other then just learning concepts, we should be able to
learn how, when, and why we should apply those concepts into everyday
things. Now, i'm not saying we stray away from traditional methods in the
future. I am saying that what we all need to do as a group is find a way to
import those traditional methods in to futuristic teaching, and use the
traditional way of educating as a building base for new methods in
education. It can relate to a table, the new methods of educating being
the legs and the traditional way, the table top. You need both the legs and
the table top before you can have a complete table. If you take one piece
away you are left with a worthless pile of wood, but when you combine all
of the pieces together, the table begins to have some use and worth to it.
Education is something that has the biggest value of anything in
the world. It is an ideal that without it, we would never be able to live the
way we do today. It has come from a small, simple school, to a key to the
future in only the span of years.