The acceptance of public high school in the mid-nineteenth centurey affermed democracy. Schools in the U.S. differed from the schools in a lot of ways. However even with the changes schools in the U.S still fell short of democratic principles.
Schools in the European side of the the spectrum have always been quite different from ours here in the U.S. European schools had a pretty collectivistway of working with their students. They really believed in having the student being involved in thier education they wanted them to have a choice in exactly whatit was that they were learning. Of course thay had to learn the standards of learning such as the maths, languages, grammer, history, and things of that nature but they were democratic and letchildren choose other things to be taught that they were interested in.
The U.S on the other had the picture in a different filter. See the U.S wanted things to be a little different; we were suppose to be democratic but somehow we stayed in the republic stance. We as a country i believe are a little more spoiled and layed back. We came up with standards and we made sure that they were methowever thats when we stopped. We were only concerned with the standards being met we were not trying to make our students surpass that mark. So instead of becoming followers of democracy we become people of mediocraty. Not realizing that our students werent equipt with the tools to succeed in life. We had giving our students every tool to pass question on a peace of paper but we had failed them in the test of life in life skills and life management.
Of course every country has their ups and downs and disagreements and education is deffinatly not a limitation in this situation. Of course we know for sure know that democracyis deffinatelt the way to go because our students will be well prepared for live live but to change the entire curriculum after all these years would be a mission. A lot of people are afraid of change and certain teachers are afraid of release their voice of the students choice. When in actuality it should only be up to thestudent since its their future anyway.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Reflection 19
U.S. eduaction I believe has truely evovled. Just the thought that we have come from dame schooling in colonial times to public high schools. It didn't happen over night but it deffinately happend.
Dames schools were the early from of a priavte elementary school. The Dame schools where uaully taught by women. Most of these women who taught at these Dame schools where illiterate. These schools the majority of the time where usually ran in the houses of the women teaching and the schooling was basically looked at as some form of primary daycare. The children where only being taught some early spelling skills and minimal math. In time a lot of the dame schools had to be shut down becuase the teaching was below government specified standards which means thatthese dames schools were being compared to the other types of schooling and the students of which were being taught by these illiterate teachers were obviuosly not performing on the correct levels.
Through the extremly long and continuous time of education, education had evolved into public high school. Public high school is a whole lot different from dame school for the simple fact thatnow in todays world any teacher must be literate and certified to teach. The government put a stop to the "blind leading the blind". Public schooling in a since is free to the students and they are evaluated to measure there knowlegde. Public high schools offers so much to students such as maths, arts, englishes, and history. Each teacher has been equipt with the knowledge in different areas to teahc these students and prepare them for higher learning.
No one can ever really look down or frown upon dame schooling because it was a start and some form of education. It may not have been as affective as other schooling but it gave us something to try to perfect. Dame schooling seems to have had a few things out of order because it did was simply looked at as a from of day care so maybe teaching wasnt a major proirity and thts why the teaching wasn't excellent. As a society yoyu always have to start somewhere and Dame school was deffinately a stepping stone for public schools.
Dames schools were the early from of a priavte elementary school. The Dame schools where uaully taught by women. Most of these women who taught at these Dame schools where illiterate. These schools the majority of the time where usually ran in the houses of the women teaching and the schooling was basically looked at as some form of primary daycare. The children where only being taught some early spelling skills and minimal math. In time a lot of the dame schools had to be shut down becuase the teaching was below government specified standards which means thatthese dames schools were being compared to the other types of schooling and the students of which were being taught by these illiterate teachers were obviuosly not performing on the correct levels.
Through the extremly long and continuous time of education, education had evolved into public high school. Public high school is a whole lot different from dame school for the simple fact thatnow in todays world any teacher must be literate and certified to teach. The government put a stop to the "blind leading the blind". Public schooling in a since is free to the students and they are evaluated to measure there knowlegde. Public high schools offers so much to students such as maths, arts, englishes, and history. Each teacher has been equipt with the knowledge in different areas to teahc these students and prepare them for higher learning.
No one can ever really look down or frown upon dame schooling because it was a start and some form of education. It may not have been as affective as other schooling but it gave us something to try to perfect. Dame schooling seems to have had a few things out of order because it did was simply looked at as a from of day care so maybe teaching wasnt a major proirity and thts why the teaching wasn't excellent. As a society yoyu always have to start somewhere and Dame school was deffinately a stepping stone for public schools.
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