The Impact of Primary Education in Today’s Society Sabrina Robinson Eng/102 November 24, 2013 Philip Bacon

When you think about education, do you think it is necessary for children to have the educational background in today’s society? In this essay, touching on the importance of primary education has on children in today. Giving children a strong foundation in elementary through sixth grade, they learn the foundational skills to be successful in middle and high school. Also, touching on the advantages of having primary education, learning the basics of language, culture, math, and writing and even learn how to read. Primary schools set the tone for a child perceptive allowing them to learn their abilities that will remain with them throughout school and life. To conclude, you will understand the main purpose of primary education, it allows teacher has to help identify at risk kids academically and behaviorally before they move on to the upper grades. There are many ways to define education, but to understand how primary education helps children understand and maintain that strong foundation. Primary is where kids learn various subjects and this starts around age five or six, and continues to eight years of age. Building a strong foundation between children and teachers are essential to both parties. In a classroom setting, it is the teacher, who has the opportunity, and indeed, the responsibility, to initiate positive interpersonal relationships. (Primary Education, by: Mishra, August 2013. p.6) The teachers are there to instill the importance of an education, and the foundation to excel in higher grades. Primary education builds literacy skills, sets the tone for children is perceptive of their own abilities to make them stronger as the year continues. During these younger years of elementary school children learns how and the importance of paying attention while in class.

There are many ways to define education but in a simple way, education is an act of passing on or gaining general knowledge, building the ability to judge and reason or generally training oneself or others mentally for a mature life. There are different types of education, elementary education starts a child out at the age of three and works its way up into adulthood. By learning, the fundamentals of knowledge it opens the minds up to a world of possibilities and makes them want to learn more. There are two types of education informal and formal. A formal way of learning is by receiving knowledge at a school, which is mainstream or traditional education. Informal education is educating through communication and reading books. Informal education is edifying someone outside the basic form of education in schools and without the use of any learning methods. Primary is where kids learn various subjects and this starts around age five or six, and continues to eight years of age. However, primary is a different way of teaching from one country to another. Secondary education is the final stage that a child goes through in his adolescence. Education transforms its format from comprehensive primary to optional and specialized training subjects. Identifying behavioral problems in children, teachers train to understand and note certain behavioral skills that can turn into academic problems. One way to identify these problems in a classroom is to minimize the class size so that teachers can focus on their students. In my children’s classrooms, they have two teachers to access each child’s progress. By having this, children are able to excel and move on with their studies. Teachers pass on knowledge and values to children, prepare them for further education and for working life and are main contributors to good education. (The importance of teachers, Peter Donker, January 18, 2005) Teachers are there to help children build confidence, emotionally, physically and socially on their own and around others there age. Having a strong foundation in primary schools children are able to excel academically and become aware of their behavioral actions on a day-to-day basis. The children who lack that strong foundation in the early stages of learning, suffer with behavioral and academically. Primary education motivates a kid towards studies and thus improves his/her interest to proceed forward. Primary education is the resource, which can bring this mental development in a child. Parents should take the liability to show their kids the right way, in order to enhance his mental development. Importance of primary education is to develop strength in a kid properly to communicate his desire through his words. Kids should develop proper communication skills to easily commune with everyone. Even while expressing his thoughts, he should not be scared. Instead, he must have the confidence to express his views freely. (Why Primary Education is Important, Akanksha; http://www.articlesnatch.com) The emphasis put on primary education is to establish a strong academic foundation that can lead to them excelling in middle and high school and in life. Students are more aware of their learning habits and their strengths in their studies. Having a strong foundation helps children make his or her education career, it is important for them to master the core subjects in primary education while obtaining that foundation. Students who have that strong foundation in primary education, becomes aware of their potential and study habits that helps them in the future. Children are more motivated towards education. Primary education is the resource that can bring the mental development in a child. Primary education develops strengths in which children can properly communicate what they need or want through their words. Attending elementary schools, children are improving on their verbal and non- verbal skills. Monitoring abilities and enhance their memory power. Socially and emotionally elementary schools are responsible a child’s improvement in today’s society. In addition, in today’s society just in the U.S. there is evident that higher education has gone through a huge transformation since originating in the mid 1600s. Although higher education is difficult to receive the rewards of self-improvement, developments of characteristic and social improvements are what is going to satisfy you. Education in today’s society has become more and more necessary just from an early age and being able to have fun learning to being able to obtain a higher education and develop characteristics in you. Children are able to become social to obtain a higher position with the education they obtain in primary school. In conclusion, if someone come up to you and ask you, what do you think about primary education? What would you do what would you say? You will be able to answer that it is the most important factor in my child’s life. In these schools, they have reduced the class size so that the teacher’s are able to recognize if a child is struggling academically or if they have a behavioral problem and are able to address it. In elementary schools, teachers are building the foundation to make your child excel in his or her studies. They learn that by staying focus in class they are able to master the foundations in core subject.

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