Diversity in the classroom

Philosophy Of Education

Educating for a Better Society
I feel that I take a very existentialist view on education. I think that there are many problems with our current education system and I think that we need that make drastic changes to the system that we currently use. In our current system not only are many students getting the raw deal but also we are not giving them a full education and turning students off from future education. The largest problem is testing. By testing we put a negative spin on the education of a student making them immediately not like it. Also children develop their learning skills at different times and testing causes negative self-image, which makes doing well in school impossible. Let me elaborate, if there are two students and ones brain will develop the skills to spell in 3rd grade and one will develop the skills in 4th grade. Even though both of these students have the same potential to have equal skill to spell in the end the student who does bad at spelling in 3rd...