Mass
education is an invention of the early industrial revolution, and it is often
thought of as a made of control. The people who design this system had a goal
of distributing the trained workers to the right positions at the right time in
the right place.
Mass
education has two components. The first is to impart knowledge to children that
they need to effectively function as a member of society.
The
prevalence of mass education is a striking feature of the modern world.
In present
mass education there is more stress on teaching than on learning.
Dependence
on others deprives child of intellectual independence and judgment.
Mass
education is the key or a highly well educated elite should be more beneficial
for growth.
This image
is very popular that in a typical class, the teachers keep talking about their
lectures meanwhile their students are sitting in silence. Some pretend to
listen to the lecture, some play with their phones. Students who can’t bear the
class anymore, they just surrender and sleep. This has a core reason is that
the environment in mass education discourages feedback and ask questions from
students. The discouragement is spreading into not trying new activities that
could lead to better results because educators scare failure which can show in
the rating system at the end of an amount of time (a semester, a school year)
or the ranking system. The concept of exchanging the result into a number of
standardizing testing influence too much to the whole education system.
In the
industrial production, defective products are simply thrown away. The idea of
mass education was a system based on how industrial production work. They treat
students as products. Therefore, the same consequence of education is that many
students who do not fit the system are being rejected. They could keep living
in the belief that they are useless people. This is very dangerous for a modern
society.
Quality
education
The right to education is not only the right to access education
but also the right to receive an education of good quality. Education must be
available and accessible but also acceptable and adaptable.
Quality education is a dynamic concept. It evolves with
time and is subject to social, economic and environmental conditions.
Quality Education shall be directed to the full
development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for
human rights and fundamental freedoms'.
Students must receive a quality education that enables
their personalities, talents and abilities and to live a full and satisfying
life within society. The aims of education go far beyond acquiring numeracy and
literacy skills. Basic skills also include 'life skills such as the ability to
make well-balanced decisions; to resolve conflicts in a responsibility,
critical thinking, creative talents, and other abilities which give children
the tools needed to pursue their options in life.
Teachers are at the heart of quality education. Schools
should have a sufficient number of trained teachers.
Quality education is a human right and a public good.
Governments and other public authorities should ensure that a quality education
service is available freely to all citizens from early childhood into
adulthood. Quality education provides the foundation for equity in society.
Everyone has the right to receive an education of good
quality.
Standards of education are equivalent in all public
educational institutions of the same level, and that the conditions relating to
the quality of the education provided are also equivalent.
Quality education has to be
the same for boys and girls.
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