Educational Systems
             Through the years, we have seen different systems of education. We see many contradictions in those systems. Each educational system followers give examples of why they think their systems are the best ones, but it is only our decision to choose what is best for us or our children. Sydney J. Harris, Kie Ho, and E.D Hirsch are followers of certain educational systems. For example, Sydney J. Harris, in "What True Education should Do" shows that he is against the educational system that stuffs information into students' heads. He says that real education is to take abilities from pupils and make use of them. Kie Ho agrees with Harris that eliciting help students to find out their talents, although he is conscious that American Education has low standards in basic skills. Ho states in "We Should Cherish our Children's Freedom to think" that American Education has low standards in the basic skills but high standards in self-expression and creation, which makes students able to innovate. On the contrary, E.D Hirsch, in "Teach knowledge not Mental Skills", says that half the time in class, teachers should be sharing academic knowledge. In other words, instructors should increase academic knowledge to the students. Therefore, there are two different educational approaches that stand out from the articles written by Sydney J. Harris, Kie Ho, and E.D Hirsch: the approach suggesting that the information should be elicited from students and the approach suggesting that giving knowledge is the best way to learn.
             First of all, some educators believe that eliciting knowledge from a person is how education should be. Eliciting knowledge means to take skills from students and make use of it. In this way, teachers think that pupils already have knowledge in their minds. The job of the instructors is to take out all the talents from the students that
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