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

Education Past, Present, and FutureEducation, without it we would all be mindless wonders wandering around theglobe. Education is an important factor in our lives, but the past, present, andfuture of culture 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 collapse to walk to school 5 miles in thesnow in the heat of summer. These shameless exagerations were meant for us tothink that school back in the "good ole age" was very dificult and surpassedthe level of difficulty students today have. In reality, school, although mostearly schools were combonation classes with a figure of age groups as students.Almost each individual was apt(p) an equal amount of personal help from theteacher. Also, life wasnt as complecated as they are now. One teacher wouldteach the whole class a limeted variety of subjects such as arithmatic andenglish. Education was just eaiser when it first became popular.     Nowadays, in the present, school not 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 listen to the conversations that go on in the hallits always, "Ohh my gosh, Becky Im going to have a fat cow I think Im instituteting 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 not shoot for an A on a quiz. Its human nature to succeed,but with the imperativeness put on us by the teachers, parents, peers, and colleges,its a heavy load to handle.     Now, scientists recently did an expiriment. They placed a child in aroom with close to brand new toys. They left him there for a couple of hours and hedid not act upon with them. The scientists puzzeled took the son aside and asked 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 clam 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