Education is slow to change

Public education has not met the needs of our society and changes have been introduced and implemented into our schools, many of these ideas have good intentions but meet strong opposition and fail. The government regulations and programs appear to have fallen short because of a lack of support and funding. The proposed changes are often pieced together and not followed through. We end up with portions of many theories and ideas that don't seem to last. People may often see these changes as trends or fads and try to outlast them. We as a society like to live in order and change may be viewed as chaos, therefore we are slow to change. How long have we talked about converting to the metric system? Each generation has different ideas on how things should be done, yet most of these ideas appear radical to the previous generation and outdated to to the future generation. Perhaps change has to be perpetual to be effective. Education can then evolve into a system that meets the needs of the present society as well as the future. If people buy into the change as an improvement, they will support it, and it will succeed. Ashley Montagu stated that without the cooperation of its members, society can not survive.