Week 9 Should education stretch a person?

3) Should education 'stretch a person do you think? (What do you mean by 'stretch'?)

What I consider to be stretching is making someone realise their full potential and how they can succeed in doing so be it through hard work and perserverance or weekly tutorials or wrtiting essays over and over again. If it means in the end you can be the best you can be then everybody has a whole lot to gain by putting the effort in.

I think its important to stretch students for the above reasons however its important that there is not too much pressure to succeed all the time and that just to keep a good steady level of work with a reward at the end is the ebst way to ensure students carry on- light at the end of the tunnel.

It is important to understand that everybody's notion of stretching is different and that there will be differences amongst cultures and age groups. Not only so but standards vary amongst schools too if you look at the public and state schools, public (private) schools have the resources, the well paid teachers and the allocated time of prep (to do homework). Taking these things into account the idea of stretching a student will be done with the daily routine which is exactly the same for each student. Whereas in state schools I believe it depends upon the individual as to how far a personw ill stretch themselves.