Zaya's schooling

There are many things we could mention about the social services, it covers many aspects of our lives. Whether it is in a positive way or a negative way it depends a lot on the quality of the care and attention they provide. Sometimes it can be the other way around. Because some people are just not happy with what they have, they tend to dwell more on what is missing than what is provided for them. It is true that if the government wants to play the role of a carer, it is necessary for them to do the job properly. But since we are not likely to get anything more out of them, it is sometimes good to see the bright side of this dark world. In line with this thought I would like to bring out one of the things that impressed me when I came to England, which is the educational system. Not only because of the quality of teaching but because of how it is presented. To make this more clear I should explain the system we have in my country in Mongolia. Even though communism has been abolished for a great deal of time certainly it still has an influence, especially when it comes to education. My earliest memories about the school were that the classrooms had plain white or blue walls and the only posters on them described grammar. We did not have any play areas either. So the whole focus was on studying and memorising numerous books and poems. How different this is to the way of learning taught here in the UK. For example recently I visited a school in Great Dunmow where I saw how the children were learning about other counries of the world by creating a display of popular things found in those countries. One display was about India and they displayed a sari, curry and various spices used in Indain cooking. This looked like it would be fun to do. I remember when I was in school in Mongolia learning about India I had to memorise a number of pages with very few pictures. If I did not remember the information the next day, I was given a bad mark and punished. It would have been so much easier to recall the material if we had learned it the same way as those children in Great Dunmow rather than remembering the punishment I recieved. There are lot to add but it is time for me to go to sleep.