I totally agree with the statement from Noah’s article, where it says “it is highly important for our grade-schools to do their part in encouraging and preparing the state’s youth for the rest of their lives.” However, the Noah’s definition of education seems to differ from mine. In his article, he infers that the actual studying with books and papers is more important than other things such as athletics. Here, I have a different perspective. Education is not only about studying books and writing essays but also about finding one’s specialty and interest, and developing it. One’s specialty could be athletics, arts, music, business or anything. Yes, all of these require some paper studying but cutting budgets for such things won’t improve education in Texas. It appears to be hindering the education in Texas.
Instead of destroying the variety choices in education, we should encourage it, so that students can actually find what they want to do and might be more interested. Therefore, we should find another way to cut the budget if it is needed. From my previous post (unfortunately, I was confused with another assignment and wrote a critique on another editorial), I mentioned that the administration eats up half of the budget. Maybe it would be not a bad way to find some budget cut there
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Moreover, he mentioned that motivation is important in the beginning of his article. Here, I am on his side. No motivation will end up with no fruition. Therefore, the Texas government should find a way to help students getting motivated by giving them broader concept of education and encouraging them, not discouraging by cutting budgets on athletics or others - I just wanted to emphasize that education could mean whole lot more than just empty studying.
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