Kyeong-eun Lee / Educational System / Mon34

<Change The Educational System>     In Korea, the educational system has become a great factor of social instability; Korea is the absolutly education-oriented society, in which people gain their keys to success depending on the level of their education. I think it has resulted from the abnormal system of education. From 5 to 19, the students under the usual educational routes have to compete to get the admission from the universities. Blinded competition, I think, is the main reason of twisted system. Then let's see how to solve the problems. First, we have to advice the kids do what they want. It sounds irresponsible, but think. Not all of the students can be the members of the top universities – but what about the others who who had not been involved on the lists? Did they fail? No. Our society is sustained by who didn't get university education and they are essential in our society. In other words, they need to raise their values in their fields and become the experts. So the system need to add the vocational education and let the students freely choose what they think they can do. Second, we need to relieve the competition. All the problems arise from the fact that the numbers of university admissions are limited; but lots of people want it. To relieve this competition, what should we do? I don't think I can suppose a breakingthrough solution, but I'd like to suggest one system. In France, the highschool students take the university enterance exam – baccalaureat – and in this exam, the students get no grades, and then, they get just pass or fail. Through this system, France has made the leveled universities. But this system is too radical to apply to Korea. So, I think grading system will help – from 1st to 5th grade. I think it will relieve the stress of competition. Anyhow, the educational system is the first thing we need to fix and improve.