Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Week 10-task 4- Is there a potential problem being stored up for people if 'education' is tailored to fit into their cultural and personal preference

I think there is definitely a potential problem being stored up if education is tailored to fit the cultural and personal preferences of a person. Not everybody is interested in or believes in the same things and their are now so many different interests and cultures about. If education was tailored to fit every single persons cultural and personal preferences then there would be so many different styles of teaching going on and the classes would end up with like 2 or 3 or even 1 person in each class. Which would also mean that the classes would become a lot shorter, or a teachers and child's school day would become a lot longer because they'd be trying to fit everyone in. I just personally think it'd be stupid to try and cater for every bodies individual tastes and preferences.

When you're younger and you attend classes such as religious studies, you get to learn about other people's cultures and beliefs and cultural practices and it can be quite interesting to learn and you are taught to accept more people even if they do have a different culture to your own. If this wasn't the case, and education was tailored just to fit into your culture then you wouldn't be as accepting of different people to yourself and different cultures and issues like racism ad bullying would be a lot worse than they are today.

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