Learning is vital no matter who you are and it is the backbone of everything. If we don’t understand more about ourselves, our lives and the lives of those around us, then how can we ever understand others. In this day and age schools have been put under a lot of pressure to reach government education goals and this has received critism from both teachers and parents. It would seem that rather than developing learning and life skills that will help them develop into adults, schools are teaching children how to pass exams.

Another problem with exam based teaching is that pupils who have had to move schools a number of times often get left behind as a result. This is particularly true for children who have a military background as their parents are often sent to different military bases at both home and abroad. If you look into the military genealogy of families that have a history in the army, you will often see that the educational performance of the individual members of the family is typically poor unless they have spent their exam years in one place.

There is nothing wrong with this as long as the children understand the subject as well but while many students may know the correct answer, is there any point if they can’t understand it? The real concern however is coming from employers who have said that the undergraduate students that they are receiving directly from University don’t have the required skills for the working environment and basic concepts suc as their life skills aren’t developed enough. The problem with this is that business employers are limiting the number of inexperienced candidates in favour of those with experience as these candidates are usually multi skilled and won’t require additional training like presentation skills training.

If you have a learning disability such as dyslexia and go to a specialist independent school then you may have an advantage over other school children. This sounds strange but this is because independent schools control their own syllabus and teach different aspects of subjects. As well as this it means that children’s individual learning methods can be catered for so kids with dyslexia can be taught in a way that suits them. This type of teaching can usually only be found in specialist dyslexic schools but it allows dyslexic children to learn and understand more.