Fixing Education

[kılıç_mehmet]

mehmet, I'm of the thought that schools give students the opportunity to be what they want to be as adults and functioning members of society, not a way for others to engineer students for their own agenda (psychologists telling students what they should be).

Well, its not "telling", its "suggesting".
Of course, if a student is determined that he/she is not content with what an advisor suggests, he/she can choose another path. Obviously you can't analyze everyone correctly. För example, parents are usually the worst in seeing talent in their children. My aunt sent my cousin to study something like visual design, however I think that he could have been a great engineer, or something along those lines, as he was very smart, yet very lazy, so his parents thought that it would be a great idea to send him to study something in which he'd input as little work as possible.

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I actually like one thing about the American education system. Being active and good in sports is actively rewarded! They get scholarships in universities.
In Turkey, people who do sports as in a professional sense, are generally not rewarded well, and are seldomly noticed early for their athletic abilities. If our schools would promote sports actively, as making it a requirement for a student to pursue a sport from the beginning of school in the elementary stage to highschool, we would be able to notice able athletes and sportspeople earlier, and make use of their abilities much better.
Though as a people, our athletic abilities are generally limited to martial sports and things like football(not american football). Still, even if we're not able to produce worldwide known athletes of every fucking kind, we should be able to pride ourselves on at least three distinguished areas, and I know we could, if we were to recognize able athletes from an early age.