Week 1: The Importance Of Education
What is Education?
● Oxford Dictionary: A process of teaching, training, and learning, especially in schools or
colleges, to improve knowledge and develop skills.
● Ofsted: Education is an alteration to the long-term memory
What is the point of Education?
● Develop Knowledge and Skills
● Gain knowledge and understanding of life
● Prepares you for the future
● Find strengths and weaknesses
● Helps individuals navigate what they want to do in the future
● Helps Children's personal development
● Helps improve quality of life
What does it have an impact on?
● Children's development
● The way you view things
● Future Career
● Social Hierarchy
● Self esteem
● Long term goals
● Opens new doors to careers
● Better job/ Better Quality of life due to good education
● Social Cohesion/ Division (Not everyone has the same opportunities, Public vs Private
school)
Government assessment in first 6 weeks of reception that predicts what children should achieve
at SATS in year 6. If children don't get those grades then school is classed as failing, affects
performance in the league tables.
,Is education about giving people the answers? Or is it about teaching people how to find the all
the answers that are possible? Journey vs. Product
It should be about the journey because Children will get more out of the journey than the
product. They can learn skills along the way such as tidying up which will help them to become
a well rounded person. If you teach children how to do things then they will have a sense of
achievement in the work that they achieve.
Journey helps children to get to the final destination, helps child develop in their own unique
way
Gives children opportunity to grow
End product has to be perfect which doesn't allow the individual to do what they want or how
they want
Terrified to make mistakes
Doesn't allow them to get new skills
● How do you think people are disadvantaged by not gaining a good quality education?
1. Poor Health
Learning about personal health and hygiene, sexual health, pregnancy and pre- natal care,
diet and nutrition
, The Borgen Project reports that highly educated people in Uganda are 75% less likely to
suffer from HIV/ AIDS than uneducated people. If a Ugandan completes primary school,
they're less likely to suffer from HIV/AIDS.
1. Lack of a voice
● Gender inequality
● Oppression of women
● Child Brides
● Voting/ Understanding of Political Views
● Understanding of rights/ Exploitation
1. Shorter Lifespan
1. A Poverty Trap and Unemployment
Children of poorer families are more likely to be poor themselves. A good education allows for
higher paying jobs, which helps people to escape the poverty trap.
What is Education?
● Oxford Dictionary: A process of teaching, training, and learning, especially in schools or
colleges, to improve knowledge and develop skills.
● Ofsted: Education is an alteration to the long-term memory
What is the point of Education?
● Develop Knowledge and Skills
● Gain knowledge and understanding of life
● Prepares you for the future
● Find strengths and weaknesses
● Helps individuals navigate what they want to do in the future
● Helps Children's personal development
● Helps improve quality of life
What does it have an impact on?
● Children's development
● The way you view things
● Future Career
● Social Hierarchy
● Self esteem
● Long term goals
● Opens new doors to careers
● Better job/ Better Quality of life due to good education
● Social Cohesion/ Division (Not everyone has the same opportunities, Public vs Private
school)
Government assessment in first 6 weeks of reception that predicts what children should achieve
at SATS in year 6. If children don't get those grades then school is classed as failing, affects
performance in the league tables.
,Is education about giving people the answers? Or is it about teaching people how to find the all
the answers that are possible? Journey vs. Product
It should be about the journey because Children will get more out of the journey than the
product. They can learn skills along the way such as tidying up which will help them to become
a well rounded person. If you teach children how to do things then they will have a sense of
achievement in the work that they achieve.
Journey helps children to get to the final destination, helps child develop in their own unique
way
Gives children opportunity to grow
End product has to be perfect which doesn't allow the individual to do what they want or how
they want
Terrified to make mistakes
Doesn't allow them to get new skills
● How do you think people are disadvantaged by not gaining a good quality education?
1. Poor Health
Learning about personal health and hygiene, sexual health, pregnancy and pre- natal care,
diet and nutrition
, The Borgen Project reports that highly educated people in Uganda are 75% less likely to
suffer from HIV/ AIDS than uneducated people. If a Ugandan completes primary school,
they're less likely to suffer from HIV/AIDS.
1. Lack of a voice
● Gender inequality
● Oppression of women
● Child Brides
● Voting/ Understanding of Political Views
● Understanding of rights/ Exploitation
1. Shorter Lifespan
1. A Poverty Trap and Unemployment
Children of poorer families are more likely to be poor themselves. A good education allows for
higher paying jobs, which helps people to escape the poverty trap.
