Education in crisis: Who is to blame?

It is widely known that the educational system has been undergoing a great crisis lately, being unable to transmit moral values, to form grown-up citizens or to exert any authority. Today’s situation is a consequence of not only outdated teachers and neglected students, but also of a number of variables that have combined thus multiplying the undesirable results by dozens.

On the one hand, it seems that teachers, a vital piece in education, are not skilled enough to cope with students. This might be due to the fact that educators have been taught techniques that are no longer operative in today’s classrooms. Thus, it can be said that they constantly have to resort to other tools that would suit their needs and allow them to teach their students more effectively. Teachers should not be expected to improvise but to be better trained for nowadays’ students and to keep updated.

On the other hand, there are the students, another fundamental piece in this puzzle. Their main problem is that they are not only students, but also children, sons and daughters, and Argentines, and are therefore deeply affected by everything that surrounds them. They are so overwhelmed by external issues that to concentrate on school matters is a really hard task for them to accomplish. What is worse, they lack motivation to study, which is an essential component to enhance the learning process.

However, parents cannot be left out from this list since they constitute the remaining part. They, together with teachers, have a key role in society, namely, to educate their children. Nowadays, parents are so absorbed into their own economic, social and marital conflicts, among others, that little time is left to pay attention to their children’s needs. But far from trusting teachers, most actually describe them as incompetent and hold them accountable for their sons and daughters’ failure at school.

Apart from the above-mentioned variables, there are many others that can be taken into account as a consequence of today’s crisis in education, such as the defects of the school as an institution, the lack of power of heads, the role of the state, the bad administration of money for infrastructure and resources, etc.

To conclude, it should be admitted that the critical situation of the educational system is the result of the irresponsibility of many people. What is crucial to improve in education is that each and every stakeholder should reassess its situation and take responsibility for its share. After all, do we all not want a better education?


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