What is wrong with education?

New Roman">What is wrong with education?

I received several notes to inform me that several marks have been deducted in my class. That is a system in our school that any students that committed mistakes will receive a note to the teacher who is in charge of the class and several marks will be deducted. Whether a teacher, who may be called a headteacher of the class performs his duty well or not will in a large measure depend on how many marks have been deducted in a certain period of time.

A lot of marks have been deducted in my class and I am therefore will be the last one on the list of headteachers and I will certainly be graded the least effective headteacher in our school.

I know as a headteacher I should work conscientiously and devote all my attention and energy to my work. However I am just not in agreement with the system. The students are only too young not to commit any mistakes. What is more, any petty mistakes such as the failure to keep the windows clean will be punished, wherever the dust may come from and fall upon the window panes.

The students need discipline. What I don’t agree with is that the disciplines are just too many and too strict. How can we suppose the students should behave like a saint or even a machine all day long? Even if they were saints, they will err. Man errs. They may not make mistakes if they are just clay bodies, sitting there motionlessly every day.

I am not graded as a good headteacher since I don’t treat the students as strict as was demanded. I am expected to give all those students severe punishments or even drive them out of our school. Several colleagues of mine did these successfully and they were regarded as efficiently workers. Frankly speaking, I can do those things if I want to. It is only because of the fact that they are only little children and it is only too natural for them to make any kind of mistakes so long as they are not serious ones.

Sometimes I am feeling too tired of such chores and I want to quit the job as a headteacher. For fear of arousing any feeling of discontent, I have for several times relinquished my plan to submit a resignation.

What I aim to do is to make the students as happy and healthy as can be and on that base I give them some certain disciplines. I am mindless of my personal gains. That is the very reason why I am graded as one of the inefficient headteachers at our school.

What is wrong with our present education? Is it the case that we should find faults with the students and then punish them thereby? I just have no idea. Whenever I think of this, I will feel distressed.