College Admissions Essay-Lack Of Public Education

My interest in education was sparked after reading an article "America's broken bootstraps" by George F. Will. The article and my classes led me to learn more about justice and inequality in the United States and discovering the role education plays in perpetuating the system.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” These are words spoken by Nelson Mandela that I strongly agree with.

Through the course of history within society, education has been the basis of all the knowledge we contan. Education and knowledge can be essential to our daily routines wherever we may be. We can use education in favor of many reasons such as political views, jobs, among society. According to Martin Luther King Jr, education’s purpose is to give discerning to one. To “distinguish truth from lies”. However, in MLK’s eyes it goes the other way around. Education has been lead to a path in which it is being used for the convenience of prejudices and the advantages of the superiority.

Education has played a vital part in society for so many years. Looking back in time, education was not always something that was simply provided to the public. In today’s society, education is not only provided to the public, but it is also expected that people take part in it through the school systems. There are two pieces from years on years ago that describe the struggles two men in particular went through. Frederick Douglass wrote a piece called Learning to Read that described his journey learning to read as a slave, which was not permitted, that took plenty of sneaking around.

Some people believe education enslaves us and other people believe education liberates us. The education that students receive is both boring and incorrect; in the Oxford dictionary it defined education, “a process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university”. I strongly believe education enslaves us. Schools don’t educate, they only teach people to follow orders. Sherman Alexie tackles his own process of education, one that includes a voracious hunger for the written word. His experience with education was one of autonomy, and his relationship to learning led him to future success. On the other hand, John Taylor Gatto also suggests for a more unrestricted learning experience, a complete opposite from the regimented factory-like settings of compulsory mass education. Arguing against the harm that public school creates, Gatto suggests promoting learning instead of “schooling”.

Advanced technology and forms of communication have changed the way we look at our nation. The current political climate and the cultural movement that is happening in our nation is going to go down in history as a revolution. A revolution where news headlines are instantaneously on our phone screens, and thanks to our advanced technology, a whole world of information is a few clicks away. However, despite these advancements in technology, the cultural change in America is often slowed down because there is a general lack of education. In America, education is the one, if not the biggest barriers that economically and institutionally suppress an overwhelming amount of the nation’s adults. Majority of adults in America do not have basic reading and writing skills yet education is still not a priority in America. There is a crucial need for education in America, now more than ever. In my opinion, the only reason for the current political climate in America is the lack of education that brings basic awareness. The solution to what we are witnessing as a nation is an education that makes individuals aware of the reality of our circumstances and allows them to see a perspective from multiple points of views. In this paper, I will present my argument on why education should be made a priority in America.

Today, education enables us to enlarge our knowledge and open doors for opportunities to the path of having a good future. In the five readings, each written by a different author, there was a lesson learned and something to take away from each one. Reading through the passages by Mann, Moore, Malcolm X, Gatto, Rose, and Anyon, each author contributed his or her point of view on general public education. This topic can be very argumentative depending on the quality of education people receive. Education today is the single most important mean for individuals to achieve their personal goals in the workforce.

One dilemma that governments face in determining equal protection of the laws in public education is funding. There are disparities in public school funding between states, between districts within the same state, and within schools in the same district.

Governor Jeb Bush initiated the nation's boldest voucher experiment in June of 1999 when he signed into law his Opportunity Scholarship Program. Florida is the first in the nation with a statewide plan allowing state-paid tuition for children in "F" graded schools to attend private schools or other non-failing schools. Opponents claim that giving parents the choice to use state education funds at private schools could end up bankrupting the public education system so many children rely upon. Proponents of vouchers argue the voucher program will give parents a way to help children trapped in failing schools. Matthew Berry, a staff attorney with the Washington, D.C. based Institute for Justice, believes, “As

Reminisce when you were a child between the ages of about six to eighteen years old. For a vast majority of us, we would think about memories from elementary, middle, and high school. Now ponder how your life would change if you never went to school? Seems like an unimaginable task for many of us. Many people just assume that every child has the opportunity to be educated. The heartbreaking fact is that there are still people in the world today who don’t have access to education. In “The Future Progress of the Human Mind,” Condorcet discusses and emphasizes the importance for equal access to education. Education is crucial and no matter who you are or where you come from, everyone should be entitled to an education.

Within the federal government’s budget education is among the most important yet in the year of 2012 the federal government only spent $107.6 billion out of 3.7 trillion which amounts to 3% on education. Compared to other funding categories in the government’s fiscal year of 2012's budget it's clear to see that education isn’t as important to the government officials as they would like us to believe. Many Americans today are lead to believe that education is important to government officials and it receives an adequate amount of funding because they don't know how much funding is put into the other categories of the budget. The funding put into education in the year 2012 is only 1/8 of social security spending and 1/5 of Medicare

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."-by Nelson Mandela

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela. Without education, there is simply no telling of what this world would be like. There wouldn’t be doctors, lawyers, businesses etc. Life and everything around us would be fatuous. Schools and education give us a plan in life and help guide us. Throughout the years education has changed tremendously. It had its improvements throughout the decades, and it also has had its falters as well. Education in America is an issue in this country and it definitely needs to be tweaked and improved. Education is what makes us people who we are and what we will be. Nelson Mandela had it right, there is no weapon more powerful than education.

Education is a very important aspect of the lives of all people all over the world. What we learn, not just in the classroom, shapes who we are. We take our education everywhere we go. We use it when talking to our buddies about sports or music, we use it while solving a math problem, we use our education while debating with our family whether or not we should watch TV or go to the movies. Our education is the foundation of who we are, since every decision we make and every thought we think is dependent on what we know. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone craved learning to such a degree that at lunch tables all over the world the topic of conversation isn't who likes who, or how drunk

I can see the limits and possibilities of education as an agent for change. My evidence for this belief is shown throughout the essay by Nussbaum and different articles that were posted on Blackboard (United States history also shows the different reasons). Individuals who advocate for change are influenced by education, and statistics show advancement in work-life earnings and in social justice. Although work-life earnings and social justice (race, ethnicity, and gender equality) have improved because of education, unequal pay based on race and gender, racism, and stereotypical thoughts still exist in our society. In this essay, I will discuss how education qualifies as an agent for change while showing that there are many obstacles on the road to obtain intellectual equanimity in our society.