Education prospects Let’s try to imagine the world without education, without any schools, colleges and universities. What would that be like? No school means no knowledge and skills. No university means no doctors, no engineers and no scientists. Therefore, it means no development and no inventions. Would you like to live in such a world?
Nowadays there are different kinds of education, but the most widespread is still the traditional one that includes the set of establishments providing education. For the vast majority of people, the first step is a primary school where students get the basic skills of reading, writing and counting. The next stage is secondary school which gives broad knowledge about various subjects and prepares students for future professional education. At the end of the last form school children take exams and after school graduation they have several options: to stop studying and get a job or get professional education in college or university. Students’ life is not easy because they have to take exams every term and study hard to succeed. Most people remember students’ years as the best time of their lives, full of fun and entertainment.
However, the modern world is full of new opportunities to get education. More and more schools and universities provide on-line courses and training. It has some advantages for sure, because you study in a comfortable place at a comfortable time. Also, some alternative ways are becoming more and more popular, e.g. home education or some approaches connected with developing the mind without books and strict systems.
So, it’s necessary to study and develop your skills, to use the experience of others to create your own ideas in order to implement them in life.
3. ответьте на вопросы по тексту (письменно):
1. What is the most wide-spread kind of education nowadays?
2. What are the main steps (stages) in education for the vast majority of people?
3. What several options do they have after school graduation?
4. Is students’ life easy or not? Why?
5. How do most people remember students’ years?
6. What new opportunities are there to get education in the modern world?
7. What alternative ways to get education are becoming more and more popular?
