Education: Past, Present and Future Education, without it we would all be mindless wonders wandering the world. Education is an important factor in our lives, but the past, present and future of education are changing. And it will change it until our education system is the best in the world. In the past, education in America was plain and simple. We've all heard the stories of how our ancestors had to walk 5 miles to school in the snow in the heat of summer. These shameless exaggerations were intended to make us think that school in the "good old days" was very difficult and surpassed the level of difficulty that today's students have. In fact, school, although most early schools were combined classes with students of different age groups. Nearly every individual was given the same amount of personal help from the teacher. Besides, life wasn't as complicated as it is now. One teacher taught the whole class a limited variety of subjects such as arithmatics and English. Education was simply easier when it became popular. Nowadays, school is not only a place to learn, but also a place to stress. As I walk through the halls all the students seem to have that academic nervousness. If you listen to the conversations going on in the hall it's always, "Oh my God, Becky! I'm going to have a fat cow! I think I'm going to get a B in my chemistry class, and that's going to be a success." ruins my record." Pressure is constantly put on students to get straight A's. It is very rare for a student not to aim to get an A on a quiz. It is human nature to succeed, but with the pressure put on us from teachers, parents, colleagues and universities, it's a heavy load to handle. Now, scientists recently did an experiment. They put a child in a room with some brand new toys they left there for a couple of hours and he didn't play with them. The puzzled scientists took the boy aside and asked him why he didn't play with the toys. The boy replied that he didn't want to break them. Then, the scientists took another child and put him in a room full of horse manure. The boy was having fun swimming in it, having fun with the horse manure. When the scientists asked the boy why he played with the horse manure, the boy replied: "Well, with all this horse manure, there is