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SCHOOL OF FUTURE
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School is something one can like or dislike, but it's the fact of our life and nothing is to be done. On the other hand, there are many quite different kinds of education in Russia nowadays and one can hope improvements will take place at school as a result of team-work of pupils, teachers and administration.
I'd like to discuss some problems of school and education as a whole, the ways of their solving and the changes, I imagine, are going to take place in future.
Citizens of Russia have the right to education which is guaranteed by the Constitution. The public educational system incorporates pre-school, general school, specialized secondary and higher education. Compulsory education is for children from 6(7)-17(1 years of age. Tuition in most schools is free of charge, but some new types of schools are fee-paying. Those, who finish school, receive a secondary education certificate, giving them the right to enter any higher educational establishment. In institute or university one has to study from 4 (a bachelor) to 5 (an engineer) or 6 (a master) years.
The main link in the system of education in our country is the general school, but there are also schools specializing in a certain subject, a language or math, for example. To achieve good results studying at such schools is very difficult both for children and for their teachers. In this situation it's very important to make it easier for tutors to teach, as well as for pupils to study.
Let us imagine a school building of a so called "think for itself" type. It has a computer console that allows to control all automation in the house, beginning with lights and finishing with air conditioning. The doors are opened and shut automatically as one approaches. Clever appliances even check one have left before they turn the lights off and (just think of it!) clear the dustbins. However fantastic it may seem one such building is being built now in Moscow only and not for school but for a business center.
In my opinion school life is going to be changed greatly. Improvement of technologies will play a great role in it. First of all, the problem of transport will be solved. This is a great difficulty for many boys and girls, living far from school, to get there in time. It's awfully boring and gets on one's nerves to sit in a trolleybus somewhere in the middle of traffic jam, being sure that you'll be late for school. Perhaps, it might be a special system, when there are automobiles for children, driving in most popular directions. It can be just buses, but government should give them a special line of a road so that they can't get into traffic jam.
On the other hand, these changes won't be so necessary with further development of PC technologies. In my opinion one mustn't spend so much time at school and it's quite possible to get knowledge at home. Internet will help greatly in this. Already now there is no need in rewriting the same lectures in any subject every year again and again. Many programs for PC exist now and will continue arriving, making it possible to study without leaving one's home at all. Internet will provide a virtual talk between teacher and his pupil. Certainly, it doesn't mean that there will be no need in schools and that they'll disappear. No, they'll survive (at least in close future) as it's absolutely necessary to have a place for discussing something one can't understand, for checking knowledge and, at least, for developing contacts between children. Still pens and pencils should be changed for computers. In that case it won't be necessary to visit school every day - one's agenda for a day will become much more versatile.
Advanced learning techniques will be introduced to make learning easier. One of such techniques could be mnemonics - remembering things by linking them together in some way. The scientific support for such association methods being helpful is that the results are much better when both the left and the right sides of our brains work.
Language learning could also be put into practice in the brain-friendly way: by competing in a variety of games, singing songs and telling stories, preferably with native speakers .
More attention will be paid to physical training. Swimming pulls will be possibly built in every school and martial arts will be introduced for those interested. Though I hope there won't be any marks in this subject.
School of future won't be less strict. It will just become more friendly to pupils, it'll give the opportunity to get interested in what one's studying. The education is going to become easier. |
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