I was a teenage student I may be in the minority, or, more sadly, in the majority, but I have never seen anything terribly wrong with my education. This could be because I attended private schools for most of my life and a state public institution for only three years, or it could be because the effect Jonathan Kozol talks about in The Night Is Dark and I Am away from The house has been so subtle that I don't notice. However, I have some criticisms of my education. When I think about my education as a whole, I think of it as divided into two parts, private and public. As I said before, I spent most of my life, from kindergarten through eighth grade, attending private schools. From kindergarten through lower grades we were taught the basics - writing and spelling - along with some more important lessons that some people take for granted. We were taught to share, to clean up after ourselves, and to be kind to other children. Of course, we followed those lessons on Authority, not a single child in my class objected: they seemed like good ideas. I believe that preschool is a good place to teach children the most important lessons, but I don't think enough is done in the early days of children's education to teach them compassion for their fellow man. I don't think it's too young an age to show them the injustice and bad things of the society they will grow up in. I agree with Kozol's attitude towards teachers saying we shouldn't "bring them in". .. anger and pain" in our children's lives at such a young age. Indeed, "what are we going to do when anger comes through the door?". The next phase of my education that I seem to remember is middle school. I attended a private middle school affiliated with the University......middle of paper......has benefited from wiser parental figures. I often think about the other disadvantaged kids I went to school with their lives. I try not to though, it always makes me a little depressed to think about where our nation is going. How can the future be bright when the public education system for most children in this country is so depressing ?No, this wasn't the utopian high school the court envisioned when they put this school district together. So I guess I'm happy, for the most part, with my education up to this point. There are some things I would improve, but looking at how others approached their education, I become more grateful for my own. I consider myself a good person, whether I'm right in thinking so or not. However, I don't know if this is due to my upbringing or in spite of it.