One Education System

Education has existed for thousands of years, fathers have always wanted to pass on their knowledge to their child. Philosophers living in the Antic Greek had different opinions about knowledge, some were thinking that their duty was to educate their fellow citizens. Others were convinced that good ideas in the wrong hands might have terrible consequences. However, most of them supported that knowledge had to have a price.

This idea hasn't toned down as the years passed away, wisdom is still difficult to purchase if I may say so. Knowledge has been developping with humanity, this long process has been helped by a major invention, the writing. Try it in your class or in any group, when you pass a verbal sentence to each other, chances are that the sense changes completely. That is the reason why the writing has been so important to us. There has been examples in history that people reading books missed out the point of what was meant. Common sense and critisism are of main importance while reading information.

As far as I know, when a personnal opinion is reported it can't be considered as truth. That is why if I had to re-invent what school might be, I would give give critic-courses. Those courses would be destined to warn the students about the world in which they are living. Beside this, I would bolster the acces to knowledge to everyone, beginning with reading and writing. 870 000 people are illiterate in 2008 (13% of the world's population), that is unacceptable. Fighting illiteration is one of the main challenge of the future.