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• 1 2020-11-03T14:12:01+00:00 Private vs Public Education 11 plain 2020-11-18T18:41:28+00:00 I grew up thinking that every class would start with a prayer. After 13 years of private education it is ingrained in your head that you have a bible class and chapel every Wednesday. When you grow up going to a private Christian school you think everyone gets taught about Christianity. Let me get one thing straight, I do believe people should have the option of both private and religious education. I also believe that my education experience was great, I would not take anything back, or try going to different schools. What I do not believe however is that the government should absolutely have some kind of role in private education. Private education when done right can create great minds. But if taught the wrong things whole lives can be ruined. Fortunately my schools were highly regarded and prepared me to succeed in the rest of my life. I grew up in schools which greatly cared about the information they were teaching us. And most of my teachers are great. There were times in my education though when I felt as though I was not getting the best experience. Looking back now at my senior religion class I realize a problem that some teachers have. The content and requirements for this religion class required no critical thinking. The was no active conversation, you were merely required to regurgitate information back to the teacher. In my opinion I did not gain the best experience I could have gotten out of that class, the topics were interesting and there was definitely room for critical thinking and new Ideas to form but the teacher did not encourage it. This is the worry I have with private education and my experience, the flexibility of content taught can lead to scenarios like mine where the teacher is merely depositing information into your mind. If a successful learning environment is to be achieved there must not only be a deposit of information onto the students mind, the information must also be developed and furthered within the students mind before it can be withdrawn. This problem though is also extreme in public schools. Private schools enrollment is going up because of the problems with public education in America. So instead of focusing on only bettering private schools we should instead as a society shift our perspective to bettering the education system as a whole.
  
  
  
  
  An eagle was my high schools mascot. In a lot of ways I think an eagle is a great symbol to recognize the benefits and downfalls of private education. When I think of an eagle I see a creature that represents freedom, a bird is a creature that is not bound by gravity it is free. Private education can also be a institution that removes systematic shackles from a person. An eagle is also a predator though, it is a creature that hunts and kills. Private education can be a predator in disguise, private education has the capability for setting a person up for failure. An eagle is a perfect symbol to represent both parts of private education, the liberation and the shackles it has the possibility to create.