resposible education

Although I think that the student has a primary reaponsibility in obtaining an education, the issue is much more complicated. The quality of the teaching, the influences of the peer group, will impact on how well the student learns.

Everything else being equal, it is the motivated student who receives the best education. But I don't think that education is dispensed equally to all students.

Although I think the student is central to whether or not they personally recive a "good" education, I don't think it is their resposibility. That's too much resposibility to place on a child. Most students havn't developed into who they are yet. If somebody told me when I was in school that in x amount of years I would be entering a philosophical debate about who is fundermental resposible for education when I was at school I would of probably call you a lier and say that I'm planning on having sex at that time.

I think it's dangours to have the resposibility to be completly with the goverment. Education has to be fair and not push any set of political views on student or use education as a political tool (as in changing it with ever new study or public whim).

The parent would have to be resposible for keeping the school in check, making sure that the school is "behaving" behaving as it should.

As for whos ultimatly responsible, I would say the parent's their responsiblity to make sure the scool is suitable and they have a have to make make the student use the oppotunity to be educated (I'm not talking get an A or get a punch in the teeth crazy parenting though).

The student is responsible. Utterly. This, of course, is not problem free.

When I was in the norwegian equivalent of college, I knew more english than our english teacher. I reined him in on several occations when he was teaching faulty english. Still, I didn't get the top grade. Why, do you suppose?

The teacher would say because I didn't apply myself to what he was teaching. That's true, and I still say thank god that I didn't. That would have resulted in a porer understanding of the english language.

I remember him teaching the class that there was no difference whatsoever between "would" and "could". Should he be allowed to teach english? Could he be allowed to teach english? The varying answers to those questions are enough to show the difference, both now and then. Maybe that's why I didn't get my A.