The Importance Of Education In Education

Education is essential to the improvement of our society for future generations to thrive and create new innovations. In order to accomplish these goals though, we must look at what it takes to ensure we are a developing a strong education system worldwide. A strong education system means we need to increase the access to education as well as increase enrollment rates not only in the U.S. but worldwide. Some goals the worldwide education committee has to hit by 2030 are to: ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education; ensure that all youth, achieve literacy and numeracy; and build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent,
With these small improvements to the education system though, there are still many implications and problems that must be addressed in countries across the globe. In the UK today a recent report has uncovered an ongoing issue. Teenagers are falling below the expected reading level for their age. The report revealed that progress made by students in primary school is hindered when they transfer into secondary school and, from then on, the gap between students’ reading ability and their age grows wider each year. By the later years of secondary school many students are reading books that are no harder than those in primary school (Topping). In primary school, time is set aside everyday to read and write. Students who attend primary school are more likely to have a higher literacy rate due to the fact that they read every day. An easy solution for this problem would be for secondary school teachers to add 15-30 minutes into their curriculum every day dedicated to reading and writing. Proper literacy is very important in
and the UK Finland is a country that has an educational system unlike many others. Finland has short school days and fills the rest of the day with school-related educational activities. They believe that there is a good portion of learning to be done outside the classroom. The schools in Finland build the community and help to create identity among the citizens. The teachers in Finland also go through some of the best education in the world (Taylor). The United States, focuses mainly on literacy and other subjects but comes in number at 14 on the list of best education systems. Literacy is not all there is to education although it is a fundamental building block. One area that the U.S. lacks in teaching though, is real life scenarios and social situations. Finland having shorter school days has caused their students to become more social and free because they have time to do what they please when they please after the school day is over. Many students in the U.S., China, and other countries are constantly stressed about school and the amount of homework they have. If other countries would take a look at what Finland has done and realize that they have one of the top educational systems in the world, with less homework and school hours, maybe that would prompt other countries to change and help reach the goals set for