Educational System is Broken

Education is broken, The deeply ingrained hierarchy that defines intelligence, marking from zero to 100 where each student lies, is faulty to say the least. Currently, aside from a small number of more specialized “Out of the box” educational institutions, the honoring of academic achievement focuses on math and science which stand at the top of the hierarchical ladder followed by English, perhaps a foreign language and then physical education, health classes, and all of the arts classes are found pathetically situated at the bottom.

It is my belief that lasting and sustainable success is only possible when one’s career choice represents a true intersection between passion and capacity. What am I great at? I have witnessed the negative effects of this belief system many times in my life. Sons of bankers who want to be artists.

A daughter of lawyers whose desire to attend a culinary school was looked at like a weak cop-out of a career choice which would leave her helpless and skilled only to provide phenomenal meals to a husband hopefully rich enough to allow a decent life for a single income household. It seems, however, that the first and most important dynamic shift, that needs to occur, must be to focus every student’s education on the discovery of that one thing that blends each student’s capacity to understand something with the passion to execute that same something Education is broken.