Does Education Really Respond to the Real Needs of Students?

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How much time does schools give to completing our academic life?  Quite a long time compared to the 2 day pre cana (pre wedding) seminar given to those who will be getting married.  Let me illustrate a little why I am sharing this.  The two day seminar comprises soon-to-be parents preparation to nurturing a family and raising children.  A lot of books that i read related to building family and relationships would say that there is no school that gives us the complete package of such preparation.  Yet, i realize that parenting plays a very crucial role to the kind and "quality" of children that will some day soon will live their lives too and will become parents themselves.

Obviously, the two-day pre cana seminar cannot even answer all the needs of the couple to be able to hurdle the many different concerns and issues of married life nor will it be able to emotionally, spiritually or completely prepare them for it.  So parents will have to rely on what the school has to provide what they lack.  But when our children go to school, what the program will spend more time with will be in the academics.  They will be thrown into varied mental exercises in Mathematics, English, more time in Science.  They call these subjects as the major ones.  While the minors are appropriated less time..

Oh my, our children do this from elementary to college until they finish their courses (we adults were also formed this way right?).     So when they get a job, they would realize they fall short with the most important skills such as human relations where respect, honesty, commitment,  humility, teamwork, and many other good values that they need to be "truly" human.

In my heart, I believe true education should be responsive to the real need.  We always hear from daily news issues of corruption, killing and many different forms of human rights violations.  Still our educational system has not truly responded to it.

How about reversing our educational system or balancing our educational system such that while we give mental exercises, we also give the same and ample time for formation of values ...family values supporting our very own parents that don't have enough time to give that formation since they are at work while their children are in school. Or give training on Vocation particularly including family life in it.

After all, a lot of our children will go into married life and so when they become parents, they would be more confident to face the many challenges  confronting married individuals or formation of children.  So they won't say anymore that they were like thrown into a vast ocean with the options "swim or die".  Oh my ...  Old as I was when I got married, I still felt that way with my age, how much more with those teens that just got pregnant and call their situations "accident" and so they just have to swim or leave the responsibility of child - rearing to their own parents.

Hmmm this is something that we could reflect upon..:-)  Have a happy day everyone...God bless us all:-)