I Was a Teenage StudentI may be in the minority or, more sadly, the majority, but I have never seen anything horribly wrong in my schooling. Maybe it's because I attended private schools for most of my life and attended a state-run public institution for only three years, or maybe because the effect that Jonathan Kozol talks about in The Night is Dark and I'm Far Away from The House has been so subtle that I don't notice it. However, I have some criticisms regarding my education. When I think about my education as a whole, I see it divided into two parts, private and public. As I’ve said before, I spent most of my life – from kindergarten through eighth grade – in private schools. From kindergarten through the early grades, we were taught the basics – writing and spelling – as well as some of the more important lessons that some take for granted. We were taught to share, clean up after ourselves, and be kind to other children. Of course we did these lessons on authority, no kid in my class objected – they seemed like good ideas. Kindergarten, I believe, is a good place to teach children the most important lessons, but I don't think enough effort is made in the early days of children's education to teach them the compassion towards their fellow human beings. I don't think it's too young an age to show them the injustice and ugly things of this society they're going to grow up in. I agree with Kozol's attitude towards teachers who say that one should not "introduce". .. rage and pain" in our children's lives at such a young age. Indeed, "what will we do when rage walks through the door?" The next step in my education that I remember is middle school. I am went to a private college affiliated with the Uni......middle of paper......he benefits from wiser parental figures I often think of the other disadvantaged children I went to school with. .I think about what they are doing with their lives I try not to, however, it always makes me a little depressed to think about the direction our nation is going. when the public education system for the majority of children in this country is so dismal No, this was not the utopian high school that the court envisioned when they created this school district? satisfied, for the most part, with my education so far There are some things I would like to improve, but looking at how others have done with their education makes me more grateful for my own. I consider myself a good person, whether I am right to think so or not. But I don't know if it's because of my upbringing or in spite of it..