now leaving school at 17

In my opinion the main fault with the present education system is that it is designed to fit human beings that come in all sorts of intellectual shapes into a standard, government specified, round hole.
Raising the leaving age without a radical change to to the concept and delivery of 'education' merely increases the time spent hammering many 'non-standard' pegs into 'standard' shape and increasing the damage it does to them.

 

In agreement. Formal Education (whatever that means) does need to be flexible to cover the needs of the individual student. If an individual assessment of the student can be made and that assessment used to determine a relative course to follow that would seem to be a better method.

 

Well said Dave W.
It feels like Education is going the same way as our Health service, changes for the sake of changes, outwardly giving the impression that something is being done, a deeper investigation shows no real promise of workable solutions, and few tangible improvementsj. A very sad demise. Jan

 

Landlubber, it is funny you mentioned the health care services. I actually wrote a couple of sentences to that subject in the above then thought, no lets not go there, and deleted it. What I wrote, is
In the USA in hospitals here they have what is called "Pathways" (I was on the Pathway committee and developed them). A "Pathway" dictates, that when a person enters the hospital with said issue then this is the course that must be followed during the stay. And it is outlined in what this day, what that the next day etc. It does not take into account the age of the person, or should other issues surface. This "Pathway" is insurance driven. So, the case manager of that patients job is to fight for more days with the insurance company if needed (and I did that also). As a side note, most of the Medical Mags are written by insurance companies. It is scary, seems that we the people, your area and mine are looked at as to mold into a same type with little or no modification.

So now the question comes to mind. Is this planned structure, both in education and health care, due to the need for the providers to have a clear set of black and white guidelines because they lack creativity, motivation, self-motivating; or because the higher power wants us all to follow the same straight lines? But, I think the answer for both is of course is money. Who accepts money from a source must follow what the source says?!!

 

Ah the age old issue of money.

If youy pay peanuts you get monkeys, that`s what you get for voting in the Tories in the 70s.

(Hastily grabs coat and legs it before the rotten tomatoes hit)