"To what extent do our schools serve the goals of a true education?"

From the beginning of time school has been a place to learn. The primary goal of any school is to instill a sense of knowledge, wisdom, or skills by the time one's years at grade school are done. Most schools make this possible for their students by providing them with certain studies, teachers to teach them those subjects, and classrooms to hold the discussions. The primary courses schools provide for their students are the basic studies of math, English, science, and history. These four subjects have always been the main studies of all students from Kindergarten to twelfth grade along with the secondary studies such as the elective classes. The elective classes consist of a variety of subjects such as cooking, woodshop, photography, business, and so on. Then when it comes time to prove the students' knowledge on the certain study they have been learning about they get tested with exams and are judged based on those tests how intelligent they are in that subject. If they score high then they are brilliant and if they do not then they are failures. The real problem in school education is exactly this. Tests are not an accurate way of proving somebody's real knowledge, although they may be the most convenient. They are only beneficial to people who are skillful in some of the different sections of test taking such as multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true or false. Some people's brains do not process the information of multiple choices or sticky fill in the blank situations as others do. However, when one is given the option to freely express all they know of a subject such as one is able to do in the essay portion they can give more sufficient evidence of their true knowledge. Other than the testing portion of school, I believe schools do a great job at sharing all the important information of the vast topics we will need to know about when we become adults.