The purpose of school is to educate our youth and turn them into productive citizens for our society, giving them the necessary skills they need in everyday life. But some parts of learning are focused on more than others.
Math, English, history and science are subjects required in every year of primary learning. Initially, students learn a basic foundation of each subject, enough to make them proficient in most scenarios they’ll find themselves in.
But, as they progress into secondary education, this learning of problem solving skills turns into memorization and repetition. How does memorizing math formulas help teens in everyday life? How does knowing what type of animal an orangutan is help teens in everyday life?
Years of education are wasted by learning things that will be forgotten or unimportant by adult life. If the point of education is to produce productive young adults, then why aren’t they learning more about the government in which they live under?
12 students were interviewed on a test made up mostly of questions from the Citizenship test, a test you only have to get a 60 percent on. Only around half of students who took this test were able to get a 6/10 on this test. All participants have lived in Ohio for most of their lives. Around a half of students would have failed the citizen test according to these results.
This proves how little students actually know about the government, a harsh reality considering they will be adults in two years. The conclusions are simple. Government and all its aspects need to be taught more in school. Schools need to allow kids to specify their learning sooner with the exception of necessary learning skills. And focus on making a productive adult, not someone who knows all the periodic elements.
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