It’s common knowledge that education is a base for better life. Having a good education everyone can meet the requirements for their dream job and reach all goals they have set.  However, there is still room for improvement in today’s system of education and that is the reason for so many educators brainstorming ideas for making it better. 

   Listening to the speeches of Sugata Mitra and Sir Ken Robinson made me put my thinking cap on and consider the ways of improving the standards of our education mainly because I’m studying for a degree now and this question is extremely important to me.  

  To begin with, I completely agree that many schools are producing identical people who do their clerical jobs.  All of this is because the creativity of pupils is limited. Teachers think that the best way to give pupils an education is to make them learn everything by heart or better to say cram. This way doesn’t allow pupils to develop their own way of thinking, express their own ideas. What is more, with the help of computers and the Internet children usually do copycat work just rewriting already done homework.  They no longer can do something by themselves.  That is how education is becoming boring for them; they lose their interest, start getting low marks and can even drop out of school. Due to this the main aim now is to make lessons interesting and evoke a thirst for knowledge in children.

   Secondly, the idea with «grannies» is wonderful. It shows how the encouragement helps in studying process.  Even if a child is not a straight A student, it is better to concentrate on progress that he or she is doing in studying than on some shortcomings. I honestly think that parents’ support and small doses of praise can make a child hit the books and make the grade just to prove that he or she is actually worth parents’ admiration and praise.

   Finally, it is my firm conviction that Ken Robinson is completely right about teachers being the lifeblood of the success of schools. I take the view that being a teacher is not as easy as ABC. It’s teacher’s responsibility to do everything to make the subject interesting. It’s also teacher’s responsibility to treat all pupils equally and avoid the situation when somebody is a teacher’s pet while others envy this child. Teacher also should take care that there are no pupils who are having trouble keeping up with the rest of the class. Only someone who likes this job and feel like it’s his vocation should be a teacher.

   I believe that all children are gifted and learning should help them find their hidden talents and develop them. That is what system of education should do: develop mental agility and help acquire knowledge that pupils will need in their future.