Should Primary and Secondary education be all the book work theory?

Caterina Yeargan: Everyone just rambles along.So why not go with the flow if that is what we all end up doing.

Forest Duttinger: Education is much more than preparing you for work. The "I won't NEED this in my future life" does not rule it out from being a part of education. An understanding of life and the world at large is necessary to make each a person with a wider knowledge of the world. And, not everything that will/may be needed can come from experience. Much has to come from books....Show more

Basil Blasingame: A little bit more extra reading (if bored):When you went to school, what can you remember best, the things where you physically did something and saw something, or did you remember that special page in the book?Maybe you think book work theory is on the whole much better because it prevents the use of a day out either from class or from school. Which thus lets pupils feel a little more out of the zone and thus not concentrating as much?Then agai! n, maybe we should show the realism to book work theory through experience. After all, class examples are great, but if you don't see it live in action then is it much of a learning matter, or more of a "Just remember this fact kids and it'll be fine". Because lets be fair, teachers do not (always) base around telling their students things that aren't really in the syllabus, they try and concentrate only the things that are in the syllabus, rather than teaching them the realism to their work....Show more