My Education and My Grandparent’s Education

My Education and My Grandparent's Education

My education and my Grandparent's education have been extremely different. My education has seemed to evolve around everything electronic; most of it has come from books and computers. My Grandpa said most of his education came from work. Grandpa graduated from high school in 1957. My Grandma did not graduate, but she received her G.E.D. in 1982.

Grandpa said there wasn't much to his high school education. He said there wasn't anything electronic in the school at that time, calculators or computers. Unlike now, the lockers in his school didn't have locks on them. Occasionally the school would get a guest speaker, although this didn't happen often.

During my education, teachers have had many more resources available to them than they did during my Grandpa's time. Calculators, computers, and TV are everyday tools used for teaching. Teachers taught us how to use a calculator at a very early age. Since the fifth grade, I have used a computer to write or research most of my assignments. Every year, the amount of work I do on a computer increases. We now use computers every day, as well as graphing calculators and other technological advances such as the scanner and the Internet. We use computers to do anything from typing English papers to checking our e-mail. My Grandparents never imagined things such as the computer, let alone the Internet.

My Grandparents attended classes, such as basic math, English, reading, shop and science. The math they took is now compared to the math I took in the sixth grade. Now many different classes are available to students, and if the school doesn't offer the classes the student can take them on line. One thing that confuses them is that I can type something at school, then email it to myself and type on it at home later. In some of my classes, we build web pages; my Grandparents have no idea what a web page is.

Another major difference in our education is the size of the school and the number of kids in each class. My Grandparents' school was small compared to our school, and our school is small compared to most schools today. My Grandpa's graduating class had 20 kids in it and that was considered a large class. My class now has 67 kids in it and is considered a small class. One kid I talked to from Denver has 700 kids in his class.

My Grandpa said the main reason he stayed in school was to play sports. The reason I stay in school is so when I graduate I can go on to college. My Grandpa said that back then; you really did not need to have that good of an education to get a good job. It wasn't like it is now where you have to go to college to get a good job, unless you go to work in the coal mine. My education and my Grandparents education have been very different. I think that my education and my Grandchildren's education will be just as different, but in other ways. Schools probably won't be called schools anymore, they will be probably be called Learning Institutions. Computers will probably be something of the past