Education: Past, Present, And Future :: essays research papers

schooling Past, Present, and FutureEducation, without it we would all be mindless wonders wandering some theglobe. Education is an important factor in our lives, but the past, present, andfuture of education is changing. And change it will until our education systemis the best in the world.     In the past, Education in America was plain and simple. Weve all heardthe stories of how our ancestors used to have to walk to school 5 miles in thesnow in the heat of summer. These unblushing exagerations were meant for us tothink that school back in the "good ole days" was very dificult and surpassedthe level of difficulty students today have. In reality, school, although mostearly schools were combonation classes with a variety of age groups as students.Almost each individual was given an equal amount of personal help from theteacher. Also, life wasnt as complecated as they be now. One teacher wouldteach the whole class a limeted variety of subjects such as a rithmatic andenglish. Education was just eaiser when it first became popular.     Nowadays, in the present, school non only is a place to learn, its aplace to stress out. As I walk through the halls all students seem to have thatacademic nervousness. If you list to the conversations that go on in the hallits always, "Ohh my gosh, Becky Im going to have a fat cow I think Imgetting a B in my chemistry class, and that is going to ruin my record."Pressure is constantly put upon students to get "straight As" It is very rarewhen a student will non crash for an A on a quiz. Its human nature to succeed,but with the pressure put on us by the teachers, parents, peers, and colleges,its a heavy load to handle.     Now, scientists latterly did an expiriment. They placed a sister in aroom with some brand new toys. They left him there for a couple of hours and hedid not play with them. The scientists puzzeled took the boy aside and ask ed himwhy he did not play with the toys. The boy replied that he did not want to breakthem. So, scientists then took another child and placed him in a room filledwith horse manure. The boy was having fun swimming around in it, having a blastwith the horse manure. When the scientists asked the boy why he played with thehorse manure, the boy replied, "Well, with all of this horse manure, there has