Experience of School Compare with Coates’ Impressions of it

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How does your experience of school compare with Coates’ impressions of it? Do you feel college is different? In any real world, what should the purpose of education be? Why?
Well, my experience of school is quite different but there are instances where I feel are similar to Coates’ impression of it. The first thing that makes it different is that today, teachers are more open about the issues that are happening in the world. Teachers are not trying to hide anything from the students and are in fact engaging the students more and answering their questions. Students are free to ask the ‘whys’ which Coates says were not allowed and went unanswered during his time ins school. In our class, for example, we have had debates on certain issues that are happening in our country today. Teachers have been bombarded with questions and students never seem to relent especially when it appears like the teachers are trying to ignore them or brush their questions.
However, there are similarities to Coates’ impressions of school. There are instances where I found myself wondering why I was in class for some subjects. Coates remarks that “I remember sitting in my seventh-grade French class and not having any idea why I was there” (26). I found myself in such situations and with such a question because I was neither interested nor ever saw myself pursuing anything close to what I was taught in some subjects.
I believe the purpose of education should be to help students develop a desire and ability to think, learn, and discern the world around them. I believe that schools today focus on the nonessentials and hence the reason why some students drop out of school. Students need to learn about their world. By learning about their world, students become better at adapting and living within their means and resources made available for them.
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