Is our educational system OK?

In today's class, after doing, as every day the secretary's functions, we have make a debate about a video we watched last week in class of Sir Ker Robinson's opinion with respect to the educational system. I agree with him at very points, and that is something that surprises me because I am get to be said by adults that system is system and ther's nothing I can do to change it. For example,I completely agree with him when he explains that there are many people that waste a lot of their time by studying things they don't need to know in order to become whatever they want: why the hell do I need to study history, literature, philosophy, etc...if I want to become an engineer? This is something that is obviously wrong and that I think it won't take long to change.



In the second part of the class we have had to finish the activity we started last day; a freemind of  how to write an e-mail effectively. This has been interesting for me because I think that messaging takes a very impportant place in our daily life( professional world, projects in school or university, etc...) so we have to be prepared to be able to write a complete and clear message.