Can Public Schools Produce Good Citizens?
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My personal perception from interacting with kids from both public and private schools in the classroom is that generally speaking kids from private schools have a much better education than kids from public schools. Actually I have even noticed a differnce in public schools between inner city schools and suburb schools.
I was shocked at some of the gaps in education in kids from public schools that I interacted with during college. I remember reading a few papers in particular in which the writters didn't understand the concept of using commas, let alone sentence or paragraph structure.
Things like that have not much to do with intelligence and a whole lot to do with education.
I have no idea what you mean by good "citizens" though...
I was shocked at some of the gaps in education in kids from public schools that I interacted with during college. I remember reading a few papers in particular in which the writters didn't understand the concept of using commas, let alone sentence or paragraph structure.
Things like that have not much to do with intelligence and a whole lot to do with education.
I have no idea what you mean by good "citizens" though...
i was very lucky growing up. I didnt live in danville but i used my aunts address and i was able to go to San Ramon Valley High which is in a upper middle class neighborhood so they had more funding for teachers and books and shit. If i had had to go to the high school i was supposed to go to then i probably wouldnt have received the same quality of education.
There is definitly different quality of public schools. Like San Francisco is notorious for having HORRIBLE public schools, even in the more wealthy neighborhoods. If you live in SF and you want to have a good education then you need to go to a private school. But not all public schools are garbage.
There is definitly different quality of public schools. Like San Francisco is notorious for having HORRIBLE public schools, even in the more wealthy neighborhoods. If you live in SF and you want to have a good education then you need to go to a private school. But not all public schools are garbage.
Things like that in general are not learned in school
I don't remember a single thing I was thought in school about grammar, punctuation etc. that I didn't already intuitively know from reading books.
The ability to express yourself is the result of reading a lot and learning from the masters of it when you're very young. School can help make some concepts more clear and further develop your skills but it can't give them to you in the first place. In other words, you should not blame the school for that, you should blame the homes where there is not a single book for a child to read...
I don't remember a single thing I was thought in school about grammar, punctuation etc. that I didn't already intuitively know from reading books.
The ability to express yourself is the result of reading a lot and learning from the masters of it when you're very young. School can help make some concepts more clear and further develop your skills but it can't give them to you in the first place. In other words, you should not blame the school for that, you should blame the homes where there is not a single book for a child to read...
Yes
We were taught I lot of theory about the structure of the sentence, what part of it is called what, what the different types of sentences are, how you connect them, how you structure your text and a lot more blah-blah, and I remember most of that even today, but that's because I have good memory, not because these are the things you absolutely need to know to write well. Most of the great writers didn't know these things (because they lived in an era when they were yet to be formalized). And I was able to write well before the time I had to study these things
We were taught I lot of theory about the structure of the sentence, what part of it is called what, what the different types of sentences are, how you connect them, how you structure your text and a lot more blah-blah, and I remember most of that even today, but that's because I have good memory, not because these are the things you absolutely need to know to write well. Most of the great writers didn't know these things (because they lived in an era when they were yet to be formalized). And I was able to write well before the time I had to study these things
