Some people say that in all levels of education, from primary schools to universities, too much time is spent on learning facts and not enough on learning practical skills. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Based on my
experience
of pursuing
education
from primary schools to bachelor
degree
in
university
, I agree that students mostly learn more theories and facts
instead
of practicing the skill itself.
For example
, during primary school, students were taught
on
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about
what to remember things more than why and how. My view, it is still applicable in
primary stage
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the primary stage
of
education
. Because the students need to know and remember
first
before they could observe, learn and
analyze
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
analyse
the subjects they learned.
However
,
this
pattern
continue
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continues
to higher stage of
education
which are junior and senior high school. Time spent
for
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in
learning
practical skill
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a practical skill
are
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is
still less compared to
theories
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the theories
taught in classes. As students develop knowledge about math formula, we never really figured out what kind of problems could be solved using those
formula
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formulas
formulae
. Another example,
teacher
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the teacher
a teacher
taught on what kind of word and formula used for correct and proper sentences in Indonesia/English subjects.
Neverthless
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Nevertheless
, the practice of presenting, reading, and debating which the catalyst
of
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for
in
developing the linguistic skills were rarely
happened
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happening
during
class
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the class
. Moving on to the top of
education
ladder,
university
/college had
certain different method
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a certain different method
based on the
degree
pursued by the students. As I had left
university
with
bachelor
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a bachelor degree
degree
, I had done more laboratory activities and field observation way more than I had ever done during the earlier stage of my
education
.
However
, once I graduated from
university
and started to work in a company, it turned out there were so many things
university
/college didn’t teach or let us to
experience
. Though
this
is still debatable as one of bachelor
degree
program purpose from universities is said to only prepare the students before they could
experience
work, I still think that there should have been more practical skills taught outside the classes. Definite example
to
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of
this
statement is the software provided by
university
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the university
a university
universities
which
mostly is not the
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is mostly not the
updated one and not used anymore by
company
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the company
.
Thus
, students do not have an adequate knowledge or
experience
on how to operate them once they started to work. I believe,
education system
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the education system
has been revised times to achieve the best method of teaching.
Neverthless
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Nevertheless
, there
are
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is
always room for improvement based on students
experience
itself
the thing named or in question
it
.
Thus
, there
are
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is
lot
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a lot
of surveys
that
is done
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are done
by
educator
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an educator
educators
for the alumnus to fill in, as they’re figuring out what is the outcome of the current method of their teaching.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • rote memorization
  • practical skills
  • adaptable skills
  • critical thinking
  • balanced approach
  • problem-solving
  • decision-making
  • workforce readiness
  • real-life challenges
  • technological advancements
  • information management
  • creativity hindrance
  • lifelong learning
  • skill development
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