The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Romanian School System

The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Romanian Educational System

I specifically remember a philosophy class where we learned that there are two types of knowledge. The most important one, “true knowledge” is a purpose itself; it is eternal and soul dignifying. The problem with today’s world, however, is that it replaced this “genuine knowledge” with a more “technical” one, which is merely a means of controlling the immediate. Its attributes are over-specialization and relativity as a result of taking every opinion into account.
However, applying this theory to our school system, one might say that we are actually spared from this wrong tendency. I mean, we hardly develop skills for anything in school, let alone over-specializing, not to mention that we are rarely allowed to express our opinions. In general, there is only one opinion that is correct and that is the textbook’s or the teacher’s. Still, if we look at the issue...