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Education: 25 Best Movies About Education Ever Made:
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25 Best Movies About Education Ever Made:
When it comes to education, it seems as though there are always interesting issues to discuss. Issues of inequality, teacher pay, and other hot button subjects are always being tackled. This happens in real life, of course, but it also happens in the movies. In some cases, a movie can make what goes on in real life more poignant. This is especially true if you are dealing with a documentary.
If you are interested in movies about education, you can learn a lot from the messages you find in movies. Here are 25 of the best movies about education ever made, including movies made for entertainment, and documentaries:
Hollywood Films – Entertainment
These Hollywood films about education can entertain, as well as uplift and educate. In some cases, the films are based on true stories, while in others the stories are wholly fictional. In any case, you will find that there are plenty of things to think about in terms of education — or at least remember about your own school experience
1: Dead Poets Society: This classic film about a teacher who encourages his students at a boarding school to break out of the status quo has inspired English students (and others) for years/
2:Stand and Deliver: Another in the annals of classic education films, Stand and Deliver is based on the story of Jaime Escalante, the math teacher helping kids in East Los Angeles.
3:To Sir With Love: In 1967, this movie was groundbreaking, sharing the story of a black man with training as an engineer who teaches white students in London.
4:The Breakfast Club: These kids in Saturday detention are all defined by stereotypes. However, by getting to know each other, they are able to move beyond their own cliques and get to know each other. It’s an interesting look at the interplay between students in the education system.
5:The Paper Chase: Fast-forward to college in this film from 1973. A first year law student tries to impress his professor so that he can date the professor’s daughter. Provides insights into the difficulties associated with teaching
6:Good Will Hunting: Will Hunting is a genius, but he doesn’t care to spend time in school. Instead, he hangs out with his friends and works as a janitor at MIT. However, he is discovered when he solves a difficult math problem. He eventually studies mathematics, while seeing a therapist in an attempt to get beyond some of his issues
7:Goodbye Mr. Chips: Here’s an oldie, but goodie. This educator in the 1969 musical falls for a showgirl. The two get married, and they struggle to overcome obstacles as Mr. Chips job as a staid teacher in a boys school doesn’t seem like the ideal fit for a showgirl.
8:Precious: This movie, based on a book, is about an obese and illiterate girl living in Harlem. Her family is dysfunctional, and Precious has been abused physically, mentally and sexually. However, she is inspired by a teacher in an alternative high school, and fights to improve her life — and the lives of her children.
9:Music of the Heart: Meryl Streep stars in this movie about the inspirational violin teacher, Roberta Guaspari, who encouraged children in New York City’s public school system. This uplifting story lets us see kids from East Harlem playing at Carnegie Hall.
10:Dangerous Minds: Based on the story of LouAnne Johnson, a former U.S. Marine, Dangerous Minds tells the story of a teacher trying to encourage teens from East Palo Alto, California, to take school seriously. This movie features unorthodox teaching methods, and changes to the curriculum designed to help the teacher connect with students.
11:Freedom Writers: A group of at-risk high school students is inspired to live their dreams beyond high school — while learning the value of heard work and tolerance along the way.
12:Educating Rita: This working class girl inspires her jaded professor to re-connect with his passion for teaching, while exploring issues of class in society.
13:School of Rock: A supremely entertaining movie about a washed up wanna-be rocker (Jack Black) who poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school. When finds that they are talented, he helps them learn about rock — and following their dreams
Documentaries:
The state of education in America is a subject of much debate. Documentaries made about education can be a great source of information. Watch these movies about education to learn more about different sides of the debate — and make up your mind.
14:Waiting for Superman: A look at the journey of promising students through a school system that limits their academic growth potential. A review of public education.
15:Teached: This education documentary by a Teach for America alum who looks at inequality in education for urban, minority youths.
16:Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed: Ben Stein’s look at Intelligent Design, and the lack of academic freedom to teach the concept in the classroom.
17:To Be and To Have: An interesting documentary chronicling the education had in a one-room school in rural France. One teacher and students ages four to 11.
18:We Are the People We’ve Been Waiting For: A look at education on global scale, and during a time of shifting paradigms. This British documentary challenges you to come up with solutions for public education today.
19:Mad Hot Ballroom: Is competition in schools too intense when it comes to extracurriculars? Follow these middle school students in New York City as they compete in a ballroom dance competition.
20:Spellbound: Enter the world of spelling bees, competition, and pushing children to excel. But is the cost too high?
21:Race to Nowhere: This documentary looks at the impact of too much homework and emphasis on standardized tests. Can education really be one size fits all?
22:Ten9Eight: This documentary looks at inner city teens across the country, from Harlem to Compton. These teens are shooting for the stars as they enter a business plan competition.
23:2 Million Minutes: This series of documentary films looks at global schools, and addresses education systems around the world.
24:Please Vote for Me: An interesting documentary opening your eyes to what kids in China are taught about democracy. An exploration of democracy, our changing world, and education.
25:Us and Our Education: This documentary explores learning disabilities and how they affect school and work.
If you are interested in movies about education, you can learn a lot from the messages you find in movies. Here are 25 of the best movies about education ever made, including movies made for entertainment, and documentaries:
Hollywood Films – Entertainment
These Hollywood films about education can entertain, as well as uplift and educate. In some cases, the films are based on true stories, while in others the stories are wholly fictional. In any case, you will find that there are plenty of things to think about in terms of education — or at least remember about your own school experience
2:Stand and Deliver: Another in the annals of classic education films, Stand and Deliver is based on the story of Jaime Escalante, the math teacher helping kids in East Los Angeles.
3:To Sir With Love: In 1967, this movie was groundbreaking, sharing the story of a black man with training as an engineer who teaches white students in London.
4:The Breakfast Club: These kids in Saturday detention are all defined by stereotypes. However, by getting to know each other, they are able to move beyond their own cliques and get to know each other. It’s an interesting look at the interplay between students in the education system.
5:The Paper Chase: Fast-forward to college in this film from 1973. A first year law student tries to impress his professor so that he can date the professor’s daughter. Provides insights into the difficulties associated with teaching
7:Goodbye Mr. Chips: Here’s an oldie, but goodie. This educator in the 1969 musical falls for a showgirl. The two get married, and they struggle to overcome obstacles as Mr. Chips job as a staid teacher in a boys school doesn’t seem like the ideal fit for a showgirl.
8:Precious: This movie, based on a book, is about an obese and illiterate girl living in Harlem. Her family is dysfunctional, and Precious has been abused physically, mentally and sexually. However, she is inspired by a teacher in an alternative high school, and fights to improve her life — and the lives of her children.
9:Music of the Heart: Meryl Streep stars in this movie about the inspirational violin teacher, Roberta Guaspari, who encouraged children in New York City’s public school system. This uplifting story lets us see kids from East Harlem playing at Carnegie Hall.
10:Dangerous Minds: Based on the story of LouAnne Johnson, a former U.S. Marine, Dangerous Minds tells the story of a teacher trying to encourage teens from East Palo Alto, California, to take school seriously. This movie features unorthodox teaching methods, and changes to the curriculum designed to help the teacher connect with students.
11:Freedom Writers: A group of at-risk high school students is inspired to live their dreams beyond high school — while learning the value of heard work and tolerance along the way.
12:Educating Rita: This working class girl inspires her jaded professor to re-connect with his passion for teaching, while exploring issues of class in society.
13:School of Rock: A supremely entertaining movie about a washed up wanna-be rocker (Jack Black) who poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school. When finds that they are talented, he helps them learn about rock — and following their dreams
Documentaries:
The state of education in America is a subject of much debate. Documentaries made about education can be a great source of information. Watch these movies about education to learn more about different sides of the debate — and make up your mind.
14:Waiting for Superman: A look at the journey of promising students through a school system that limits their academic growth potential. A review of public education.
15:Teached: This education documentary by a Teach for America alum who looks at inequality in education for urban, minority youths.
16:Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed: Ben Stein’s look at Intelligent Design, and the lack of academic freedom to teach the concept in the classroom.
17:To Be and To Have: An interesting documentary chronicling the education had in a one-room school in rural France. One teacher and students ages four to 11.
18:We Are the People We’ve Been Waiting For: A look at education on global scale, and during a time of shifting paradigms. This British documentary challenges you to come up with solutions for public education today.
20:Spellbound: Enter the world of spelling bees, competition, and pushing children to excel. But is the cost too high?
21:Race to Nowhere: This documentary looks at the impact of too much homework and emphasis on standardized tests. Can education really be one size fits all?
22:Ten9Eight: This documentary looks at inner city teens across the country, from Harlem to Compton. These teens are shooting for the stars as they enter a business plan competition.
23:2 Million Minutes: This series of documentary films looks at global schools, and addresses education systems around the world.
24:Please Vote for Me: An interesting documentary opening your eyes to what kids in China are taught about democracy. An exploration of democracy, our changing world, and education.
25:Us and Our Education: This documentary explores learning disabilities and how they affect school and work.
Education Quotes :
First, some definitions of education.
Education is...
- One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
- William Lowe Bryan (1860–1955) 10th president of Indiana University (1902 to 1937).
- Hanging around until you've caught on.
- Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) American poet.
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician, and writer.
- Man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.
- Kenneth G. Johnson (1922-2002) American educator, semanticist.
- A form of self-delusion.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.
- [A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
- The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.
- Josiah Charles Stamp (1880-1941) British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker.
- [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.
- Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
- George Savile, Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695) English statesman and author.
- Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
- Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian.
- A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.
- Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Norman Douglas (1868-1952) British writer.
- Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
- Prof. Irwin Edman (1896–1954) American philosopher and educator.
ABOUT EDUCATION
From clever definitions we move on to comments about education.- The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.
- Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) American novelist and short story writer.
- Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money.
- Max Leon Forman (1909-1990) Jewish-American writer.
- The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
- Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams.
- Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist.
- It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins (also Maynard Hutchins) (1899–1977) educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929), a president of the University of Chicago (1929–1945) and its chancellor (1945–1951).
- Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.
- John Mason Brown (1900–1969) American drama critic and author.
- Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) British historian
- We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. essayist and poet.
- A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American president
- But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
- Saki (H. H. Munro) (1870-1916) Scottish author
- Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English critic
- They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.
- Douglas Yates
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician and writer.
- You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
- Jerome David Salinger (1919- ) U. S. novelist and short-story writer.
- The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American editor, critic and writer.
- Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist. The Decay of Lying.
- He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer. Maxims for Revolutionists.
- The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
- James Frank Dobie (1888–1964) American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist.
- You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
- Finley Peter Dunne (1867—1936) U.S. author, writer and humorist.
- There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly–but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
- Samuel Johnson (1709-84) English lexicographer and writer.
- It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry…. I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not…
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) U.S. physicist
- I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead–ahead of myself as well as of you.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.
- The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.
- Teachers are people who start things they never see finished, and for which they never get thanks until it is too late.
- Max Leon Forman (1909-1990) Jewish-American writer.
- Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
- William Howard Taft (1857-1930) 27th U.S. President (1909- 13)
- Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing–the rest is mere sheep-herding.
- Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972) U.S. poet.
- I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life.
- Petronius (d. circa 66 CE) The Satyricon.
- True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
- Felix E. Schelling (1858-1945) American educator
- The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
- Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist.
- No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
- The modern child, when asked what he learned today, replies, "Nothing, but I gained some meaningful insights."
- William E. ("Bill") Vaughan (1915–1977) American columnist and author.
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American editor, critic and writer.
- The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
- Andre Gide (1869-1951) French writer.
- I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) American dramatist.
- Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
- Robert G. Ingersoll, Abraham Lincoln.
- The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. essayist and poet.
- The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
- John Dewey (1859-1952) U.S. philosopher and educator.
- Courses in education given at...teachers' colleges have traditionally been used as a substitute for genuine scholarship. In my opinion, much of the so-called science of "education" was invented as a necessary mechanism for enabling semieducated people to act as tolerable teachers.
- Sloan Wilson (1920- ) U.S. journalist and novelist.
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
- Walter Bagehot (1826-77) English economist, political journalist, and critic. Physics and Politics, 1879.
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) English biologist and writer.
- Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist, critic.
- He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, author, scientist, inventor and philosopher.
- A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.
- The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
- André Maurois (1885-1967) French biographer and writer.
- I'm still waiting for some college to come up with a march protesting student ignorance.
- Paul Larmer (Chicago Tribune)
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist, critic, writer.
- I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.
- Hesketh Pearson (1887-1964) British biographer.
- The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
- George Saville, Marquis of Hallifax (1633-1695) English statesman and essayist.
- In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.
- Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer.
- In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) Irish poet and dramatist. The Critic as Artist.
- You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams.
- There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
- Will Rogers (1879-1935) U.S. actor and humorist.
- Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) U.S. journalist and writer.
- Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
- John Ray (1627?-1705) English naturalist.
- A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.
- Anon
- He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.
- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) U.S. Unitarian clergyman and writer.
- Education is too important to be left solely to educators.
- Francis Keppel (1916–1990) American educator, U.S. Commissioner of Education (1962–1965).
- Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
- Edmund S. Wilson (1895-1972) U.S. author, literary and social critic.
- Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
- Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist.
- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Mary Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963) American poet.
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- C. C. Colton, Lacon: Reflections, No. 322.
Doesn't Anyone Have Anything Good to Say?
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education. English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) put it this way: "The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."But those tempted to take the route of self-education should heed the warning of the old maxim: "He who would educate himself should be a born educator." Benjamin Franklin, who largely educated himself, cautions: "He that teaches himself hath a fool for his master."
For those of us neither geniuses nor hopeless fools, formal education may be a useful thing–if approached in the right spirit, with an eager and open mind and a rationally skeptical attitude. This brief quote collection can be appropriately closed with some positive comments:
- Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
- William A. Feather (1889-1981) American publisher and author.
- An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself.
- Sydney Wood
- Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
- Anon
- The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.
- Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) American journalist.
- Education is not the filling a bucket but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet, dramatist.
- The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, political theorist, and sociological theorist.
- Your Education is worth what You are worth.
- Anon
- When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, "As much as the living are to the dead."
- Diogenes Laertius (fl. 2nd century).
- Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Notebooks.
- To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is educated.
- Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) American educator and author.
- Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
- Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian physician, educator, philosopher, humanitarian.
- Educators and architects preserve children's freedom.
- Amelia Gambetti. (Villetta School- Reggio Emilia, Italy)
- Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
- Wendy Kaminer.
- If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
- Susan Brownell Anthony (1820–1906) American civil rights leader.
- Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
- Marian Wright Edelman (1939-) American activist for the rights of children.
Science Education
- There is a great danger in the present day lest science-teaching should degenerate into the accumulation of disconnected facts and unexplained formulae, which burden the memory without cultivating the understanding.
- J. D. Everett [In the preface to his 1873 English translation of Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by A Privat Deschanel. (D. Appleton and Co.)]
- In education, nothing works if the students don't.
- Donald E. Simanek (1936-) American physicist, educator, humorist
Five ways to improve the structure of Pakistan's education system :
Universal primary education
in Pakistan is contingent on several factors, such as the existence of
cost-effective schools, better curricula, and an awareness among parents,
especially in rural areas, of the importance of education. However, the single
most important factor in getting children to complete primary school is
improving the structure of Pakistan's school system.
Currently, there exist many obstacles on the road to a smoothly functioning system. These include political interference, corruption, over-centralization, a lack of school autonomy, underdeveloped managerial capacity and poor information systems.
However, there are five institutional reforms that can help improve Pakistan's educational structure so that it can achieve the goal of universal primary education.
The first reform is the decentralization of decision-making, which improves education administration. Presently, Pakistan educational system is highly centralized even though it is widely understood that basic education is better provided in a system that is administered at the district and village level.
A highly centralized system does not respond as effectively to local needs. The bureaucracy interferes with the flow of resources and information. It also means higher level administrators have less time to devote to important issues like program design, implementation, and monitoring.
This decentralization means governments must develop partnerships with communities, NGOs, and the private sector to delegate responsibility effectively in order to achieve universal primary education.
A second step necessary for improving the system is greater autonomy for the schools. Currently, school principals have a limited decision-making capacity. In addition, schools do not have control over issues like curriculum, teacher appointment, discipline, and evaluation. There are virtually no opportunities for local staff development programs or resource mobilization.
By giving schools more independence, principals would have the authority to appoint personnel and determine crucial issues that affect the day-to-day affairs of schools. Principals, not upper-level bureaucrats, are in a better position to make these decisions since they deal with the daily realities of school life.
A third important reform is providing better support to, supervision of, and coordination of the school system at the district and provincial level. By making the district the key level for planning and management, state-level and central education bodies can focus more on policy-making, resource management and regulation.
One way to do this is by promoting good principals and teachers at the school level to enhance the institutional capacity of district level organizations. The lack of sufficient manpower is the most serious problem at the district and sub-district level.
A fourth necessary reform is to encourage decision-making be based on educational, not political, considerations. At present, politicians hand out teaching jobs as patronage appointments. Federal and provincial funds provided for education sometimes remain unused, especially in rural areas, since feudal landowners are opposed to educating "their" people.
The final necessary reform is to expand the information and research base of education in Pakistan. Effective management and administration of the education system depends on the quality of the information system. Without reliable information, decision-makers cannot improve education policy and programs at the national, district and school levels.
One way of collecting reliable information about the state of education is to conduct standardized testing that measures student performance against national curriculum goals. These can be used to compare learning achievement across schools, districts and regions over time.
There is also a need for better research. Pakistan currently has one institution that conducts research on educational issues, the Academy of Educational Planning and Management, which conducts research on basic education. However, its abilities are hampered by inadequate funds, no institutionalized basis for collecting, processing and analyzing data, no technical support staff and little influence in policy making.
Currently, there exist many obstacles on the road to a smoothly functioning system. These include political interference, corruption, over-centralization, a lack of school autonomy, underdeveloped managerial capacity and poor information systems.
However, there are five institutional reforms that can help improve Pakistan's educational structure so that it can achieve the goal of universal primary education.
The first reform is the decentralization of decision-making, which improves education administration. Presently, Pakistan educational system is highly centralized even though it is widely understood that basic education is better provided in a system that is administered at the district and village level.
A highly centralized system does not respond as effectively to local needs. The bureaucracy interferes with the flow of resources and information. It also means higher level administrators have less time to devote to important issues like program design, implementation, and monitoring.
This decentralization means governments must develop partnerships with communities, NGOs, and the private sector to delegate responsibility effectively in order to achieve universal primary education.
A second step necessary for improving the system is greater autonomy for the schools. Currently, school principals have a limited decision-making capacity. In addition, schools do not have control over issues like curriculum, teacher appointment, discipline, and evaluation. There are virtually no opportunities for local staff development programs or resource mobilization.
By giving schools more independence, principals would have the authority to appoint personnel and determine crucial issues that affect the day-to-day affairs of schools. Principals, not upper-level bureaucrats, are in a better position to make these decisions since they deal with the daily realities of school life.
A third important reform is providing better support to, supervision of, and coordination of the school system at the district and provincial level. By making the district the key level for planning and management, state-level and central education bodies can focus more on policy-making, resource management and regulation.
One way to do this is by promoting good principals and teachers at the school level to enhance the institutional capacity of district level organizations. The lack of sufficient manpower is the most serious problem at the district and sub-district level.
A fourth necessary reform is to encourage decision-making be based on educational, not political, considerations. At present, politicians hand out teaching jobs as patronage appointments. Federal and provincial funds provided for education sometimes remain unused, especially in rural areas, since feudal landowners are opposed to educating "their" people.
The final necessary reform is to expand the information and research base of education in Pakistan. Effective management and administration of the education system depends on the quality of the information system. Without reliable information, decision-makers cannot improve education policy and programs at the national, district and school levels.
One way of collecting reliable information about the state of education is to conduct standardized testing that measures student performance against national curriculum goals. These can be used to compare learning achievement across schools, districts and regions over time.
There is also a need for better research. Pakistan currently has one institution that conducts research on educational issues, the Academy of Educational Planning and Management, which conducts research on basic education. However, its abilities are hampered by inadequate funds, no institutionalized basis for collecting, processing and analyzing data, no technical support staff and little influence in policy making.
Education in society:
Education is the best investment for the people because well educated people have more opportunities to get a job which gives them satisfaction. Educated individuals enjoy respect among their colleagues and they can effectively contribute to the development of their country and society by inventing new devices and discoveries. Today's ever growing numbers of people mostly are not satisfied with their basic education and try to get secondary or tertiary education in order to meet the demands of contemporary society. Some of them enter higher educational institutions and some search additional information on the internet. Good People sacrifices their time and money and sometimes even their health to raise educational level because they realize that education is their passport to the future and for tomorrow.
Main purpose of education is to educate individuals within society, to prepare and qualify them for work in economy as well as to integrate people into society and teach them values and morals of society. Role of education is means of socializing individuals and to keep society smoothing and remain stable. Education in society prepares youngsters for adulthood so that they may form the next generation of leaders. It will yield strong families and strong communities. Indeed, parents taking an active role in their child education produce a willingness in children to learn. Education and society provides a forum where teachers and scholars all over the world are able to evaluate problems in education and society from a balanced and comparative social and economic perspective.
Education is an important aspect of the work of society and it will raise the countryside issues and promote knowledge and understanding of rural communities. One of the education essential tasks is to enable people to understand themselves. Students must be equipped with knowledge and skills which are needed to participate effectively as member of society and contribute towards the development of shared values and common identity. Education has a vital role to play in assisting students to understand their cultural identity. Education acts as the distribution mechanism of the cultural values such as it more layered the society and participate in society that carries the culture.
Education and society provides a forum where teachers and scholars all over the world are able to evaluate problems in education and society from a balanced and comparative social and economic perspective. Education is an important aspect of the work of society and it will raise the countryside issues and promote knowledge and understanding of rural communities. One of the education essential tasks is to enable people to understand themselves. Students must be equipped with knowledge and skills which are needed to participate effectively as member of society and contribute towards the development of shared values and common identity.
Education has a vital role to play in assisting students to understand their cultural identity. Education acts as the distribution mechanism of the cultural values such as it more layered the society and participate in society that carries the culture. In our culture today, there is a great emphasis on higher education. In a society, more educated you are, better off you are. Every society has specialized individuals that require extended education to fulfill certain main positions. These persons are normally known as professors, priests, doctors, mechanics or artists. Education has been a higher part of every culture on earth and education is a systemic project. Whole society should care for and support the education patriotism, cause and socialism among the young people.
Everyone must do work hard to cultivate moral conduct.Education mainly begins at home; one does not acquire knowledge from a teacher, one can learn and get knowledge from a parent or a family member. In almost all societies, receiving education and attending school is very necessary is one wants to achieve success. Education is the key to move in the world, seek better jobs and ultimately succeed in life. Schools play a vital role in preparing our children and young people for effective participation and responsible citizenship in society. The development of education and educational opportunities is built on creativity tempered by knowledge and wisdom gain through the experience of learning.
Investment in human capital, life long learning and quality education help in the development of society. Teachers are the most important factors for an innovative society because teachers' knowledge and skills not only enhance the quality and efficiency of education, but also improve the prerequisites of research and innovation. Many members of our society are not provided with a safe and secure environment in which children can develop, child abuse, violence against women and interpersonal violence cause a cancer on our society. Society play a key role in the realization of life long learning. The improvement of social education facilities such as libraries and the learning opportunities are implemented by the local governments. Students today are exposed to loads of technology and information at everywhere.
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Why Education is Important in our life?
With further development you were faced with the sense of competition and desire and other such emotions and feelings, you also learnt to control these emotions and feelings. And also teaches how to act in different situations. Education is not just restricted to teaching a person the basic academics, say computers, mathematics, geography or history education is a much larger term.
If you want to find out the impact of education on any individuality, you better do an intense observation to the ways of well-educated people and then compare them with an illiterate man. You would get a clear picture of the education and its accurate concept. Education is one of the important factors which formulate the persona of a person. Education is a productive and beneficial factor in a person’s life. It is everyone’s right to get. The training of a human mind is not complete without education. Only because of education a man are able to receive information from the external humanity, to notify him with past and receive all essential information concerning the present.When one travels around the world, one observes to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or Australia, London, Europe or America.
Conservative education makes independent thinking extremely complicated. If we are being educated merely to achieve distinction, to get a better job, to be more efficient, to have wider domination over others, then our lives will be shallow and empty. If we are being educated only to be scientists, to be scholars wedded to books, or specialists addicted to knowledge, then we shall be contributing to the destruction and misery of the world.
We may be highly educated, but if we are without meaningful combination of thought and feeling, our lives are incomplete and clashing. Education develops a meaningful outlook on life.
The individual are different but to accentuate the differences and to encourage the development of a definite type education is must.
Education is not just a matter of training the mind. Training makes for efficiency, but it does not bring about completeness. Knowledge and efficiency are necessary, which brings up by education.
Education should help us to discover lasting values; unfortunately, the present system of education is making us submissive, emotionless and deeply thoughtless.
Systems, whether educational or political, are not changed without explanation; they are transformed when there is a fundamental change in ourselves. The individual is of first importance, not the system; and as long as the individual does not understand the total process of himself, no system can bring order and peace to the world.
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