Week 1, Discussion 1

[DMiller]

I think practical application is a huge key to education. The classes I teach are pretty practical as I teach programming, web design, and pretty much any computer classes my school has. I think, at least in America, funding is horrible inadequate. I don't mean that not enough money is spent on education, although I do think that is true. The main problem is how and where the money is spent. Schools in Illinois like New Trier have gobs of money and are regarded as great public schools, while just a few miles to the south the schools in Chicago are in horrible shape even though they have a lot of money as well. Then you have schools south of Chicago that are in bad shape AND have no money. I'm not usually an advocate of socialism, but I think it's principles would work well for public education. You shouldn't need to live in a certain area to attend a well-funded school. Money isn't everything, but sorted out the funding discrepancies would go a long way to helping out broken education system.