BuiNguyen 1 HoangChuong BuiNguyen John Gravener EWRT 1A-11 28 March 2011 For education to be a success Making a better learning

environment has unfailingly been one of the top concerns for educators all around the world. No matter how strong a country is, it still resorts to education as an all-important spine. Since, education is the medium through which essential knowledge is obtained by human beings, the setback in quality is absolutely not a positive sign. Education at college level nowadays seems to be mistakenly assumed as a degree factory rather than a preparatory phase of knowledge to launch them into a more complex world of reality. Students in colleges are prone to put off their studying interest, lecturers seem to regard teaching as a daily routine, and institutions seem to lack motivation. As the importance of education over the development of a country is so significant, the above issues that our educational system is facing are hardly solvable in a fortnight. Both students and educators must work hand in glove to eliminate the drawbacks that obstruct the development of education. For education at college level to achieve success, not only should students be properly guided and tested to make thoughtful career decisions based on their ability, but teaching institutions should also implement more thorough overhead supervisions on instructors and apply a better-adjusted training curriculum, where core knowledge is further emphasized. College life is a milestone at which students have to make one of the most accurate decisions of their lifetime to assure a rewarding outcome. The current educational system welcomes everyone from every walk of life to inherit the inalienable right to study at will.

BuiNguyen 2 Nevertheless, the truth is that not everyone is born to be what he or she wants to. On the one hand, people here in the USA are more aware of what they would like to become instead of what they will be able to become. Its undeniable that dreams do not hurt, but it should be better if such dreams can be assessed for feasibility. A noticeable number of students decide their major on the basis of interest and later realize he/she is unable to accomplish the overwhelming tasks. Take a computer engineering student for example, he might well start to fulfill the requirement with doable classes, which he can be somehow familiar with during high school, like Precalculus or one or two initial courses of the Calculus sequence, but as soon as he encounters with more complicated matters such as multivariable calculus or linear algebra, he eventually realizes they are too difficult to be uptaken and he was not really cut out to study what he meant to. Imagine how depressing and frustrating it would be to attend a course that is just simply unabsorbable! As a consequence, at least another 2-year period is required to rewrite his life from scratches, regardless of all the wasted time and money. Moreover, even if one somehow manages to come through with what he has been struggling for a long time, all he will bring along is a certificate, not the knowledge necessarily applicable for the workforce, or to put it in Gattos way in his Against school, one merely receives a schooling rather than takes an education (Gatto 149). On the other hand, numerous students who are more prepared, if not more intelligent, are placed to sit in classrooms where they have already known whatever being taught. Several complaints about improper level placement have been heard from students that suffer from doing stuff hes already known as well as the back of his hand. Its is of great disappointment for students whose capability are much above the so-called standard college level having to neglectfully come down to a lower level, commonly seen in scientific fields. The in-use system doesnt allow them to go any further, which is completely a waste of time, money, and gray matter. Being forced to

BuiNguyen 3 do this, students will lose their belief in education and can barely enjoy any moment of classrooms, since they come to college expecting fresh and helpful knowledge instead of a total rehearsal of what they have in mind. They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it. They said they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around (Gatto 148). Finding oneself in either of these extremes dramatically hinders the chance of students to gain success because none of them achieves what they are purposely supposed to from education. The aftermath is quite apparent: the number of college students who are unable to transfer to upper-division universities in under 3 years is becoming alarmingly huge. Longer studying time also means worse financial burden for the government. A successful education that one can inherit is where students can flourish their potentials and apply them in the future. Thats the reason why a suitable system of testing and orientation to evaluate the students ability is now of super necessity in order to help students obtain the best preparation and guidance before they merge into the workforce. Advice will be given based on the result of the test so that students can actually realize what they are probably capable of doing later on. This decisionmaking process, with the aid of appropriate suggestions and scores, would make the educational system a lot more productive and economical in terms of time and money. Education is a bilateral cooperation in which the quality of the professors and the knowledge should also be examined occasionally to provide the desired result. How can students possibly perceive anything if professors are unwilling to give away? Lots of professors, especially those that have already possessed a full-time position or being seniors, come to classes as if their presence is the only mandatory condition for them to get paid. These untouchables in one way or another impose adversely marvelous constraint on the improvement of the students in particular and the development of the system in general. Boredom is the common condition of

BuiNguyen 4 schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in teachers longue can vouch for the low energy, the whining, dispirited attitudes, to be found there (Gatto 148). If education is regarded as a business, then teachers are the sellers, or producers. How disastrous it would be for the economy if they dont bother to make profit? Collapse shall be the answer! Hence, the very first essential step in resolving this shortcoming requires greater implication of regular check-up on lecturers so that a desirably high-quality, effectively knowledgeable and comprehensible classroom can be maintained. For this purpose to be accomplished, a close-knit co-management between the managers (school boards) and costumers (students) needs establishing in order to preserve a fairly democratic environment. In addition, employers nowadays are on the dilemma of being falsified by degrees which by no means speak for their owners due to lots of inadequate variations in training. The product of this assumedly industrial process, the intellectual workforce, is decisively instrumental in the blossom of any other industries. Yet, consistency is seldom available in the quality of such output due to unnecessarily various techniques of lecturing, which leads to the unleveled standard of expectation. For instances, there can be two students, both getting As from different classes on the same subject, knowing totally distinct source of information and completing tests that are foreign to the other. How could employers determine which A is better? Yes time will tell yet time is also money, and in this downturn of the economy, no one ever wants to lose a single cent! To make things worse, part-time instructors who put their finger crossed for their position to remain intact often provide students with easier tests, a left hand side of an equation in which the other side is more awesome comments from students and career stability. Wouldnt it be more realistic if a shift from the heavily traditional skill-based curriculum to a knowledge-oriented one in which professors switch their consideration to core knowledge, an indispensable assist for success in the

BuiNguyen 5 meantime? Wouldnt it be more beneficial if standardized tests are applied for every student in colleges so this filter can selectively enhance the fruitfulness of products and promote higher motivation for students in this country of laziness notoriety? By doing so, students will eventually realize the truth that no certificate can assure job security nor can they fit in the workforce thanks to a piece of unjustified degree, its what they really learn from college that does the trick. Educational authorities should stop resting on their laurels and pay serious attention to the development of this most important aspect of any country, however strong it is. For so long has America been regarded as an exemplary model of undergraduate education for a considerable number of countries all around the world; still it is undeniable that the predecessors used to did a fantastic job. However, time changes and so do things. The 50s of reasonably well-offs have long gone and been replaced by a fast pace, challenging and unpredictable world in which the demand for national talents will never fall short. As a country of pride and strength, the USA must take the pioneering lead in a true reform of education where knowing what to do is no longer be satisfactory, it is now all about why to do so and how to do it best! Its high time colleges, institutions looked back and made proper alternation in the system to reemerge the sinking and austere economic atmosphere that the world is dealing with. The natural selection by Charles Darwin once has it that only the most perfectly adaptive organism survive under the change of environment, and education, by all of its scared missions, is obliged to supply students from head to toes with all they need. In this long-term process, colleges shall hold the doorway in breathing life back into this country by providing suitably attainable program for individuals, ameliorating professors attitude and adopting a properly suited training system in accordance with the contemporary needs

BuiNguyen 6 Works Cited Gatto, John Taylor. Against school. Rereading America. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. Print.