Edited sentence: But it leaves much to be desired.Education is the imparting of knowledge, not the continuous testing of knowledge, it should be about skills that students can recreate for the rest of their life, rather than a mark they can show.Education should be changed so that there is no 'pass' or 'fail', but specific ability and knowledge tests that will build into a student knowledge that he can use in the future, rather than just testing aptitude of a student.Education should be engaging, children should learn by themselves with guidance and direction being given by teachers, instead of prodding and forcing students to complete assignments.The below should be edited by someone with ideas of how to improve education because it does injustice to say that we are the best that we can be - education as we have it now is better than not having any at all