The purpose of Education.

Education, the most important structure in our society, has never been appreciated like it deserves. Currently there has been a transformation on people's opinion and thoughts about education. Despite this fact, education is a controversial topic since in our country politicians don't give it the importance that it really has. Education should be given the importance that it has as one of the pillars for the development of our society.

Trough history, education has never been thought as important or necessary for everyone. At first, it was only for rich people, including only boys while girls where excluded. Afterwards, girls started to learn but only the things that “were concerned” to their gender such as languages and some basic Mathematics. In the mid 1900s many boys and girls of middle class where already able to study but in schools that separate them for gender and only until 14/15 years old. 

The change in education didn't happen until about 40 years ago, when it was established as free and compulsory for all children from 3 to 16 years. However, these days education hasn't improved as expected; many students don't have any motivation for studying and the marks and results are getting worse and worse. Spain is at the end of the list of education results in Europe and this is due to the useless current educational system. 

Our educational system consists of valuating the knowledge and the learning of the students by marks, so that students don't really learn, they just memorize information in a short-term and forget it after the exam. Students need to learn, but need to love what they are learning, need to study, but without the pressure of exams coming, need to know maths and science but need to be able to speak in public and above all, they need to be creative and imaginative.

To summarize, despite education has evolved since last century, the adequate purpose of making students learn hasn't been fixed yet. The purpose of any educative system in the world should be make students learn in a creative way and be able to become better human beings, not only improving the economy or being good workers that are able to follow boss' instructions.