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Are we teaching the right things, to the right people, in the right way?

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Education, we hear that word quite frequently but what does it mean? Miriam Webster’s Dictionary defines education as “the knowledge and development resulting from an educational process”. Everyone needs some education to be a success in life. The amount and types of education can vary but we all need the basics of reading, writing and math to be successful in life, and to be professional in the workplace. I see education as a step to success in the future. Education ideally results in effective communication, and a successful professional life. We have alternate ways of learning, and new things to learn as a result of technology. We must be educated to communicate in a professional way. Mr. Kohn states in the article that his …show more content…

These people are educated, just not in a traditional sense. We cannot consider someone “uneducated” just because of their profession; they are educated to a level appropriate to their profession. There are alternative ways to learn traditional basics. Taking chemistry can sound dull and unappealing, however, taking “food science” and earning the chemistry credit sounds more interesting. Colorado public high schools have several alternative ways to earn credits for traditional subjects. In my high school years, I took two. I took Food Science 1 and 2 instead of Chemistry, and I took Business Math instead of Trigonometry. For me, these were classes that taught me chemistry and math in a way that made sense, and seemed applicable to my life. I think that schools should offer more of these alternative classes. They keep things a little more interesting for students while still teaching us things we needed to learn. Making lemon meringue pie to learn about acids and bases seems like a stretch at first consideration, but to someone who struggles with science, it can serve as a perfect object lesson. Learning to calculate markups and discounts in Business Math seemed more like something I would use on a regular basis than

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