Before I log out from work, I received a message from my mother. She wants me to come home because she cooked my favorite meal, bacon stuffed roast chicken with tartar sauce and buttered asparagus. Though the invitation was tempting I declined the offer. I have other plans that night. I will meet a girl, who had been my chat mate for a couple of months now. I will have dinner at her home. When I reached her home, I was starving, it was a three hour drive from the city. I could smell the roast chicken and asparagus back at home with red wine, my mouth watered. When I was ushered in the dining table after meeting her parents, what I saw in the table almost made me swoon. Fried frogs, sauteed dog’s tail, buttered rats ear and bitter gourd juice for the drinks. I forgot her family loves exotic foods.
The problem that always arises with regards to education are those students who are not interested to go to school and and they consider themselves that has a lower IQ. What will be the solution then? Some says that half of all children are below average. While we concedes each child should have full opportunity to develop his abilities to the utmost. No documentation exists which would support the current educational establishment’s wishful thinking that it can significantly alter a student’s low ability, whether through more money spent, revised pedagogy, or better teacher training. Dismissive of the government’s and politician’s hysterical optimism which has produced such absurdities as no children should be left behind. With a revalorization of vocational studies and a return of respect for those frequently skilled students who choose to go into such rather than prepare for college. That far too many people are pushed toward college these days, and far too often for highly questionable reasons. Some are more interested to work than to study why not support them wherein they are more skilled into their field far more with those students who are now studying for such courses. A necessary return to reality he expects will start with parents taking responsibility and increasingly making the right educational choices, choices in the direction of charter schools, home-schooling, CTE schools - whatever may best suit the talents and abilities of their particular children. At the university level, professors will surely tire of post-modern sophistry and realize they can ignore Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, with these talented individuals are sometimes ignored by our new generation but from here we really learn the reality of life.