Analysis Of Why School By Mike Rose

Education means something different for everyone. According to Mike Rose, “a good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it” (33). The truth to this is that education affects us in every aspect of our lives. Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. In Rose’s exploration of the purpose of school, he also reflects on his personal experiences and how those experiences gave him tools that are applicable to his daily life. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, emphasizing how those experiences become crucial to one’s personal growth and potential.

Many are quick to disregard education’s role outside of the classroom. According to Mike Rose, “a good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it” (Rose 33). Rose emphasizes the value in the experience of education beyond the value of education for the purpose of custom or intelligence; he explores the purpose of going to school in terms of how he defines himself and his personal growth in the stages of his academic career. By reflecting on his personal experiences and how those gave him the tools applicable to his daily life, he emphasizes why education should never be overlooked. Rose’s use of referencing relatable experiences in a logical manner makes his argument persuasive to the readers and he succeeds in making the readers reconsider why education matters to them. Mike Rose’s Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us effectively persuades his audience of the importance of education beyond the classroom, which proves true in our everyday lives because the essential aspect of education is what we do with it and how it helps develop one’s personal growth.

The essay ‘Against the school’ by John Taylor Gatto draws our attention on to all the cons of attending twelve years of high-school. Gatto has experience in teaching profession for twenty-six years in schools of Manhattan, he shares from his experience that he majored in boredom and could see that everywhere around him. He also points out the initial reason why schools came into existence and what the purpose it fulfils now. He also educates us on the fact that all the great discoverers never attended school and were self-educated.The main idea Gatto addresses in his article are that public schooling is doing the youth an injustice.He implies that the purpose of schooling, now is to turn children into good employes and someone who follows orders.

Andrew Delbanco’s essay “A college Education: What is its purpose?” gives three reasons why college still matters. Delbanco teaches at Columbia University, where he’s the director of American studies and has written several books on the meaning and benefits of college. Delbanco, begins his essay by discussing what college means to each individual student. He states, “For many more students, college means the anxious pursuit of marketable skills in overcrowded, under resourced institutions. For still others, it means traveling by night to a fluorescent office building or to a “virtual classroom” that only exists in cyberspace.” (1) Delbano successfully uses pathos to appeal to his audience’s emotions, his personal experience and anecdotal combine to persuade his readers to consider or realize the importance of receiving a college education, however his essay contains minor flaws that can counteract his claims.

Education has always been an important part of our sustainable society in which everyone plays a role. The purpose of the education system is to provide a way for students to learn and gain knowledge. The current education system focuses more on evaluations rather than teaching, which creates a stressful and unpleasant high school experience. Alfie Kohn’s essay, How Not to Get into College: The Preoccupation with Preparation describes the difficulties and purposeless school practices students face when preparing themselves for life beyond high school.

In “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” Alfred Lubrano uses his personal experience with college education and his parents to come up with the statement that “Every bit of learning takes you further from your parents". In his writing, he goes over how his eyes were first opened to the idea that school could bring you further from your parents, when he read a book titled “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, where the writer was quoted as saying “Home life is in the now, school life exists on an altogether different lane, with an eye towards the future.” Alfred’s belief throughout his article is that school brings you to a reality that separates and distances you from your parents and home-life.

The author Mike Rose once wrote a book about education and detailing the failures in education to promote educational equality. A fine quote from Rose which relates to the theme of Learning Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney and David Cole goes as follows. “Students will float to the mark you set.” (Rose 2) I think that this is the point that Jonathan Mooney is trying to make in his section of his book. Throughout his education, Mooney was never truly given a fair chance at an education and his actions in life reflected this.

Richard Rodriguez?s essay, Hunger of Memory, narrates the course of his educational career. Rodriguez tells of the unenthusiastic and disheartening factors that he had to endure along with his education such as isolation and lack of innovation. It becomes apparent that Rodriguez believes that only a select few go through the awful experiences that he underwent. But actually the contrary is true. The majority of students do go through the ?long, unglamorous, and demeaning process? of education, but for different reasons (Rodriguez, 68). Instead of pursuing education for the sake of learning, they pursue education for the sake of job placement.

Rose stated, “There were a few teachers who worked hard at education…but mostly the teachers had no idea of how to engage the imaginations of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pound’. Rose became unmotivated by lack of aspiring teachers which caused him to miss out from an

While reading Too Cool for School by Ellis Cose I have became aware of various aspects of my ‘schooling’ experience. I realized that I may not have had the best schooling experience, but I never pushed up against the system to get any better. Throughout my life I have attended over 10 schools some very high end others bottom of the barrel. Like Cose, I always knew my intellectual abilities, but I was always so dissatisfied with my situation I didn't make the best of it. Instead of soaking up as much knowledge as possible and making a lesson out of my situation I became complacent. I started to slack off and allow myself to become stagnant to what I knew my abilities were. I allowed myself to be a product of my environment when I should I have

The author of “Race to the Top of What? Education is About More Than Jobs”, Mike Rose, has over 40 years experience teaching and interacting with others in an educational context. Rose insists that education changes lives and helps people to discover themselves and their passions, as well as moves students further up in life. He has had many students with a variety of reasons for going, or going back, to school, and argues that there should be more public recognition and endorsement for the assortment of reasons people value education. I affirm this notion, that there’s more to education than work, and that the many other values of education should be given the same amount of emphasis.

Despite their best interest, schools are often bound by tight guidelines that determine an exact curriculum. Although these guidelines often successfully lead students into the right direction as for preparation into the future, they also restrict students into specific mindsets such as “economics, accountability and compliance” (Rose 3). In his excerpt from Why School, Mike Rose explains how schools restrict growth and development of students through a specific and close-minded economic view potentially limiting shared respect and social obligation. Although many schools are truly constrained by specific guidelines, they continue to encourage and inspire students to branch out and follow their dreams.

Most people expect an education from a school. Instead, I’ve received so much more; a source of strength and guidance and a series of challenges and experiences that have helped me grow both as a student and as a person. From the insight earned and

A person is not defined by their past and the mistakes that they have made. They are defined by what obstacles they have gone through and overcome in order to grow into the person that they are today. Without struggle, there is no progress. No one can self-improve unless they are willing and able to overcome the challenges of life. Two important morals in my life are : always making the room to self-improve, and valuing my education. Through my American story, I plan to share how I learned to appreciate the meaning of education, and the importance of improving and bettering myself. Guest presentations and readings of other American’s narratives this semester, such as the presentation by David Delizza, Gary Shtyengart’s novel Super Sad True Love Story, “The Narrative of Frederick Douglass”, and “The chicken in the hen house” by David Sedaris, all have made a further emphasis on aspects relevant to my life and my own story as an American.

When I was younger, I didn’t take school as seriously as I should have. It wasn’t that I didn’t appreciate learning, it's just that some teachers didn’t seem to truly care or even try to make school enjoyable. Day in and day out it felt like the same tired thing, the teacher would lecture and then give an assignment. As a future teacher, I hope I don’t get caught in that same rut that those teachers fell into. In this philosophical portrait, I will share several examples on how counteract this mindset, the first of which, is by continuing one’s education.