Our current education system is certainly flawed as it teaches little more than how to work hard. Sure you do acquire some new skills in your various classes and you get to hear about some interesting facts. But how much of that information would you be able to recall a month after classes let out for break? Maybe quite a bit; your memory may be better than mine. I do not mean to say that we should do away with the current system in its entirety. There are factors that we should definitely keep and in fact expand as far as we possibly can.
Too School for Cool is an organization that is striving to develop research programs for students at all institutions. Many universities, especially those part of the Ivy League, have begun programs for research in many fields. Unfortunately they are few and far between. A very minimal number of students get the chance to take part in these opportunities because of limited funding for research at a given university. Our company plans to help develop these programs for not just college students but for those in high school as well. Some students discover their passions early and want to go head first into a program of their desired field. These students crave learning and want to start making a true difference as soon as possible.
Its not fair that the plans of society hinder these talented young minds from expanding their knowledge. These students don't want to waste time learning European history. They want to discover the cure for diseases, become a neuroscientist, or maybe become a talent agent. The point is though that if they spend all of their time caught in the rat race of a broken system they may never learn the things they want to learn. They may lose the passion for the field because they never got the chance to enter the field when they wanted. Congratulations society, you just stopped the cure for cancer from coming about.
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