Idiot Nation Michael Moore Summary

The telling of his personal story gives the audience an additional understanding of the issue. For example, Moore writes “I love this big lug of a country and the crazy people in it. But when I can travel to some backwater village in Central America, as I did back in the eighties, and listen to a bunch of twelve-year-olds tell me their concerns about the World Bank, I get the feeling that something is lacking in the United States of America” (124). They have the ability to see the topic in a different light, in comparison to observing from the outside looking in. Another thing that the author incorporates in his article is passion. While reading about how truly flawed the American education system is, it is simply detected that Moore is disappointed and is passionate about what desperately needs to be changed. The tone he uses varies between a mix of easygoing and aggression. A good example to display this is when he uses pathos and says “A nation that not only churns out illiterate students BUT GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO REMAIN IGNORANT AND STUPID is a nation that should not be running the world” (Moore

The greatest country in the world still has problems evenly distributing education to its youth. The articles I have read for this unit have a common theme regarding our education system. The authors illustrate to the reader about the struggles in America concerning how we obtain and education. Oppression, politics, racism, and socioeconomic status are a few examples of what is wrong with our country and its means of delivering a fair education to all Americans.

In Michael Moore’s “Idiot Nation”, he argues that there is a lack of proper education in the nation, but this high level of “functional illiterates” has nothing to do with awful teachers (although some may be) or lack of motivation from students, but from a dysfunctional education system. Moore claims that the American education system has been neglected by political leaders and corrupted by corporations that schools turn to for aid. This claim may not sit well with many and may even be misinterpreted as rude or an attack, but, after reading his personal anecdotes, the many statistics he brings to light, and how corporations have changed the public school system, his claim is more understandable. With an active tone and the emotion of his own personal anecdotes, Moore’s emotions towards the thesis are emphasized in the passage. Applying the

Did you ever think that you live in a country that runs by idiots? In the chapter “Idiot Nation” by Michael Moore, he focuses on how educational systems of the United States are collapsing and criticizes idiocy inactivity of American people. Moore blames our government and argues by pointing out the flaws of the political system and why our lifestyle is the one to blame why Americans are becoming irresponsible and have continued to ignore our education system. Michael Moore uses pathos, ethos, and logos to his readers to see why it’s failing our students. Moore shows few examples in the book about people who gets paid a lot than us and that those we look up to the most are the ones don’t know more than we all do and that’s why our country is turning into so called, “Idiot Nation”.

But shocking and uncomfortably plausible conspiracy theories aside, let us begin by observing and acknowledging the massive flaws of the US’ public education system. There are several aspects surrounding the reasons and evidence of the belief that massive dysfunction, the incursion of the 13th amendment regarding compulsory education, and largely useless content being taught in school is overwhelmingly relevant in the modern school system;

Michael Moore created this documentary in which he demonstrates different situation of Americans who do not have the advantage of receiving health care insurance. In this documentary Michael shows the feelings and struggles that each person encounters without proper health care and adds the reality about how Americans suffer because they are not protected with insurance companies. For example, Adam is a man that needed attention because he had a severe leg injury. He could not afford health insurance and so he decided to cure his leg by himself. This is one of the many cases that over fifty million uninsured Americans faced. This was very shocking and terrible. This is unfair to people that really need heath care because they are not able to

John Dewey, the father of education, created a vision of education being the key to prepare people for citizenship. Dewey’s vision was the idea that school, would teach future citizens how to think critically in democratic situations. Essays such as Todd Gitlin’s, The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut, Leon Botstein’s Let Teenager’s Try Adulthood, and Diane Ravitch’s, Stop the Madness, help to prove high schools today are not doing enough to prepare citizens to achieve Dewey’s vision of people being able to critically think democratically.

As I intend to explore the effect the EU fishing quota has had on the fishing industry in Ireland, particularly in the two local fishing ports of Balbriggan and Skerries, I began to research documentaries exploring themes of a similar ilk. One of the most famous documentaries exploring how a small towns community can be affected by a single industry is “Roger and Me” by Michael Moore. Released in 1989, “Roger and Me” marks Moore’s fist foray into the world of documentary film-making and has been widely critically acclaimed.

The United States is a nation of democracy, however, with democracy comes many responsibilities all citizens are expected to carry out. One of these responsibilities is to be educated enough to make informed decisions about voting and personal opinions. Yet, this is not the case in today’s time due to the American education system. In 2010, it was discovered through the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests 27 percent of fourth-graders, 22 percent of eighth-graders, and 24 percent of twelfth-graders performed at or above the proficient level in civics. In the category of twelfth-graders throughout America, this is a 3 percent drop from 2006 proving the education system is only becoming worse. If the percentage of American high school student who are able to pass a civics test proficiently continues to drop the voters of the future will continue to become increasingly misinformed than the current state of ignorance. Americans, currently lack the education that is

“When this kind of ignorance reaches the level of presidential aspirants, it must give Americans pause. Where does the ignorance originate? Why has it become so pervasive in the United States today? Can the U.S. have meaningful elections if its citizens have a paucity of civic knowledge and history that might allow them to make informed decisions? A significant part of the answer lies, I believe, in the failures of the American education system”.

The director of this movie is Rich Moore, made in 2012, and this genre is animation, adventure, comedy and family film. The movie occurs mostly inside the worlds of several arcade-style video games, providing an excuse for the backgrounds, ground rules and characters to constantly reinvent themselves. It’s about a guy named wreck it ralph(John C. Reilly) who is a guy who always wrecks everything and wants to be a good guy and the only way he could do that is to earn a medal. I would rate this movie a 8 out of 10 because the movie was so good and I've watched it probably about a thousands times because it’s so good. The music really goes well with the movie and it also flows. For instance, if it is scary, then the music sounds scary.But overall,

Free medicinal services for everybody is not an announcement Americans have ever heard. In the motion picture Sicko Michael Moore investigates what isn't right with our social insurance framework. He likewise investigates how some different nations that have been said to have a portion of the best human services on the planet have drawn nearer social insurance in their nation. Michael Moore has just about a wry way to deal with his film making. He is decent at painting these photos of human services our own here in the United States as well as what different nations

The educational policies in place illustrate this globalisation of poverty when we look at the legislations and those who write them. In the US, the educational policy is firmly under the thumbs of these corporate elites in the form of the Business Roundtable, the public education system itself is becoming a vehicle for socialising citizens into good compliance and complicity. (Chomsky, 2003; Gabbard, 2003)

“The child soon learns not to ask questions - the teacher is not there to satisfy his curiosity” (Holt 73). This is what John Holt thinks the American education system is all about. He thinks that it is a place where individuality and creativity come to die. He wrote an essay that explains his belief further that is titled, “School is bad for Children.” Holt uses several rhetorical devices and logical fallacies such as generalizations - stereotypes, making assumptions, and “either-or fallacy” that weakens his argument

In his excerpt “Idiot Nation,” from his 2001 book Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, Michael Moore argues that the American education system has failed to properly educate its students and has instead produced a standardized citizenry incapable of developing its own opinions and beliefs. As a political activist, the author is angered by how ignorant the country has become and continues to be, and tries to prove to his audience the need for an improved, better structured education system. He intends to change his young audience’s perspective on education by using a witty, sarcastic tone, by using personal anecdotes, and by providing evidential data that further support his case. Moore challenges and belittles authority, in order to motivate his audience and show them that they can become activists for their own education, that they have a voice to be heard.