Essay on the school curriculum.

Nowadays, it seems to prevail a one fits all school curriculum, which covers traditional subjects and lacks from a link to reality. This situation should change to address individual traits and to prepare kids for the real world.

Each children has unique characteristics, likes and aptitudes. It is preposterous a system where every child must learn the same things in the same way, it is against our nature. Content should be tailored to the children, not the other way around. This would implie more costs, more effort, but this way a bigger cost is prevented. The cost of raising a child with no interest in school, a lazy child that studies to pass, and not to learn, only because he does not care about the subjects he is obliged to study. Take the example of a kid with strengths in practical areas and weaknesses in more abstract subjects who must study a historical treatise. Save him from that burden! That innocent little person will wake up every day hating school, an unnecesary and most importantly counter productive situation, because a child who loves what he learns, learns a great deal more.

If you ask a kid who is in charge of solving economic issues on its own country, he may answer he does not know. That is unacceptable, as a future citizen, he has to be prepared to live in democracy and he should know that. Nonetheless, the same kid might know the date when Napoleon died. Somebody could think this is ironical, but it is the mere result of an old system of education. The areas included in the school curriculum need take a grip to reality. For instance, they could include accountancy, and why not real life skills. schools must re-evaluate thorougly what they want to teach the children and the medium to achieve it. Instead of using history as a medium to deliver the cause and effect concept, they could use real world physics, or real business cases, for example.

In conclusion, in order to succeed in its educational objective school must be fun for everyone, and should help the children to insert into the volatile world they have to live on.