Education is a corner stone of a great society and as such, must be adequately funded and accessible and available to the entire population. Failure to do so will lead to more money being spent on national security. Learning is a constant that happens in any circumstance, from birth to death and at any location, but teaching needs a formal setting and an equipped (classroom, laboratory, grounds, etc.) site to be effective. Curriculum or course design requires research and development and must be constantly updated and understood by the teachers who are to deliver it. A safe living (home and neighborhood) environment is essential to learning.Adequate facilities include building, electricity and water supplies, classroom accommodation, well-equipped laboratories, play and sport ground and more important external and internal security. Building a learning institution must minimize distraction, such as no electricity or water, not enough classrooms or workstations, scanty laboratory supplies, dangerous grounds or security interruptions. These tacks are the responsibility of an administrative officer and their staff, not the academic (principal, dean, head of department or teaching) staff.
The role of the academic staff is mainly to manage the class, deliver the curriculum and prepare the student for examinations. Teachers must be trained, not only in their particular subject area, but in the sociology of the age group they are to educate, so to avoid any disturbance in the delivery of the syllabus. While students enjoy their long holiday periods, teachers, along with the others directly from relevant industries and experts in teaching methodology, participate in the design or update of their particular syllabus, lesson plans and evaluation methods all to prepare the student for the next level. Noting that teaching, direct contact with thirty plus students and indirect responsibility for hundreds more, can be the most stress full job in the world; the (principal, dean, head of department) supervisor must constantly evaluate, motivate, reassign or replace non-performing teachers. A good teacher must take time away from students to avoid (mental illness) burn out.
The parent or guardian, who statistically (over the first twenty years of the students’ life) spends less time with the student than the teachers, responsibility is to show the child love, not just in words but in deeds. The parent must show unwavering support and respect for the learning institution and its staff, so to guide the student’s behavior. A student faces numerous challenges, such as; pair pressure, an indispensable need to fit in, family crises, undiagnosed health issues and many more personal issues that may distract the others in the class when the affected student acts out. So the need for individual social support is clear and since it is most unlikely that an entire class experiences the same difficulties at the same time, it fall to the individual parent or to social workers to intervene, while the teachers continue the delivery of the syllabus.
The Educational system: The Parent is fully responsible for their child and must make decisions in the best interest of the child’s development. The Teachers are responsible for the design and delivery of the curriculum. The Facility Administrator is responsible for the supply, upkeep and maintenance of the educational facility. The Facility Owners (Government and/or Private) are responsible for the funding necessary to pay for academic and non-academic staff, teaching aids, maintenance expenses and to fund all planned capital expansions. But it is up to all of us to contribute positively to encourage learning out of school.
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