The American education system touches the lives of millions of American children across the country and it undeniably has long lasting effects on each of their futures. Approximately 97% of American children are enrolled in school each year. This means that at the heart of American society and culture and politics is the education system that shaped its people. There are numerous reasons why the education system is necessary and beneficial, but this is not to say that it does not have its flaws.
There is a lack of incentive among many teachers to do their job well. For one, there is a uniform pay among all teachers, and while it was once used to prohibit discrimination, it has become a problem because there is no incentive, so “individual teachers see no need to go the extra mile to help students when the teacher next door …show more content…
Students can read a page of notes and memorize them without ever thinking about what they mean and how they relate, and they can memorize how to do a certain type of math problem but have no idea how to apply it to real world situations. The American education has failed to teach children how to think for themselves. In a 2012 survey for literacy, which measures the knowledge and skills needed to understand and use information from written texts, as well numeracy, which measures the ability to apply knowledge of mathematics to real world problems, the US average placed 16th out of 23 participating developed countries. A man named B.F. Skinner rightly “determined that…class curriculum was the means to bring about such changes in the students values and beliefs simply by relentlessly inputting specific programmed messages.” He also summarizes the American education system by saying, “I could make a pigeon a high achiever by reinforcing it on a proper
There is a lack of incentive among many teachers to do their job well. For one, there is a uniform pay among all teachers, and while it was once used to prohibit discrimination, it has become a problem because there is no incentive, so “individual teachers see no need to go the extra mile to help students when the teacher next door …show more content…
Students can read a page of notes and memorize them without ever thinking about what they mean and how they relate, and they can memorize how to do a certain type of math problem but have no idea how to apply it to real world situations. The American education has failed to teach children how to think for themselves. In a 2012 survey for literacy, which measures the knowledge and skills needed to understand and use information from written texts, as well numeracy, which measures the ability to apply knowledge of mathematics to real world problems, the US average placed 16th out of 23 participating developed countries. A man named B.F. Skinner rightly “determined that…class curriculum was the means to bring about such changes in the students values and beliefs simply by relentlessly inputting specific programmed messages.” He also summarizes the American education system by saying, “I could make a pigeon a high achiever by reinforcing it on a proper