There are many ways that American education can improve its preparation
of today’s students for tomorrow’s world, and many opinions
on how to do this. Some people think that schools should have healthier
food or longer classes. Those things will help kids, but I think that
the most important things that you can teach kids is how to work for
themselves, be more culturally diverse, have good communication skills,
be environmentally friendly and live a healthy lifestyle.
Why is it important
to own your own business you ask well, if you own your own business then
you have more control over how much money you earn and you know that
you wont get fired the next day in other words you have stability. By
teaching kids to work for themselves they would be able to contribute
to the economy and there would be fewer people living on the street and
in shelters.
One time my teacher said that I think globally. As a person
who thinks globally I worry about what will happen in the world tomorrow
rather than what happened in my city today. Kids today have lots of chances
to see more of the world because we use the Internet. We also learn about
different cultures from the news and when we get older we will probably
do more and more business with people from all over the world. Most kids
still think about one little business in a little town but in the in
the future lots of businesses in America will have employees in all different
parts of the world. If more schools had cultural awareness days, kids
could learn more about other cultures.
Teachers should also encourage
students to be more environmentally friendly. They could do this in their
everyday activities by recycling and using environmentally friendly products
or they could have special earth days. On these days students could adopt
a small pond and clean it up or plant trees.
In schools we should be taught
good communication skills. Communication is very important because without
it there would be total chaos. Lawmakers wouldn’t be able to get people to agree to new laws and people
wouldn’t know how to talk to each other without hurting their feelings.
Communication skills can be taught by allowing kids to express themselves
in whatever way is best for them. This could be in speaking classes,
writing classes or art. All of these things are important in expression.
Another
thing that teachers should talk about more is living a good, healthy
and respectable life. For this subject I could think of at least twenty
diseases, say not to do them and my essay would be complete. But, that
wouldn’t be interesting. We could cut out a lot of diseases
by just eating right, exercising or doing things that are good for your
body. These days it’s difficult to eat healthy because we are surrounded
by unhealthy foods, but if schools could somehow expose kids to different
types of foods, from different places kids will grow up and eat a variety
of foods. I know that in my schools recess is being cut out of the curriculum,
but I think recess is important because with out it out bodies can’t
grow strong and we won’t be able to fight off infections.
In conclusion
I’d like to say that, that American education
could prepare today’s students for tomorrows world by teaching
more cultural diversity, International economics, environmental friendliness,
good communication skills and the best ways to live a healthy lifestyle. |
