Analyzing Education Failures and Mastering English Verb Tenses

Critiquing the Modern Education System

I believe that education fails in some important ways. The issues are multifaceted:

• The weight of student backpacks is excessive.
• Classrooms are often not well equipped.

Teacher Accountability and Student Blame

Some teachers do not explain concepts clearly. Instead, they claim that students do not understand the explanations, shifting the blame entirely onto the students. Often, no further explanation is provided beyond telling students they must enroll in an external academy for tutoring.

Disruptive Student Behavior

Another critical point involves the students themselves—behaving like beasts rather than human beings—who constantly talk to each other. In a second, they create an atmosphere of chaos in the classroom. Of course, these charlatans then complain that the teacher does not explain well, justifying their poor performance with the easy excuse: "I have bad teachers."

Societal Responsibility for System Failure

I conclude that while the education system fails, it is ultimately society that fails, having lost all respect for others.

English Verb Tenses: Structure and Usage Reference

Below is a summary of key English verb tenses, their structure, and common time markers:

Simple Tenses

Present Simple

• Structure: Base verb (V1). Add -s/-es for third person singular.
• Negation: don't / doesn't. Interrogative: Do / Does.
• Time Markers: Always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never, every day/week, once a month, twice a year, on + day of the week.

Future Simple (Will)

• Structure: will + base verb.
• Negation: won't. Interrogative: Will + subject.
• Usage: Predictions, fixed schedules, spontaneous decisions.
• Time Markers: This evening, later, next month, soon, at eleven o'clock, in an hour, tomorrow, in a few weeks, on + day/month, in the future.

Continuous Tenses

Present Continuous

• Structure: am / are / is + V-ing.
• Time Markers: Now, right now, at the moment, today, these days, this month/year, at present, tonight, tomorrow, this afternoon, next Sunday/week/month.

Future Continuous

• Structure: will be + V-ing.
• Negation: won't be + V-ing. Interrogative: Will + subject + be + V-ing.
• Usage: Indicates an action that will be ongoing at a specific future time.
• Time Markers: At this time tomorrow, at this time next [period], on Thursday, in the next decades.

Perfect Tenses

Present Perfect

• Structure: have / has + past participle (V3 or V-ed).
• Negation: haven't / hasn't. Interrogative: Have / Has.
• Usage: Indicates actions where the time is not specified.
• Time Markers:
  • Experience/Time: Ever (¿Have you ever?), never, recently, lately, How long...?
  • Completion: Yet (¿already? / not yet), already, just (to have just finished).
  • Duration: For (a period of time), since (a particular moment).

Past Perfect

• Structure: had + past participle (V3 or V-ed).
• Negation: hadn't. Interrogative: Had.
• Usage: Indicates an action that occurred before another past action (e.g., The rain had stopped before I left).
• Time Markers: Already, by the time, before, until, never, just, after.

Future Perfect

• Structure: will have + past participle (V3 or V-ed).
• Negation: won't have + V3. Interrogative: Will + subject + have + V3.
• Usage: Indicates an action that will be completed by a specific time in the future.
• Time Markers: By this time next week, by ten o'clock, by the end of..., by then, by August, in two months.

Future Intentions

Going To

• Structure: am / are / is + going to + base verb.
• Negation: am not / aren't / isn't + going to. Interrogative: Am / Are / Is + subject + going to.
• Usage: Expressing intentions, plans, and decisions about the future, or indicating that something is about to occur.