My Experiences In What Remains

An education provides people not only with the academic skills required, but also the social skills such as having the self confidence and belief in ones self to achieve a fulfilling and happy life. It is every child’s human right to receive such an education from early years to higher, and therefore several stages in which they must travel for this to happen.

In Jessica Harris’s “The Culinary Season of my Childhood” she peels away at the layers of how food and a food based atmosphere affected her life in a positive way. Food to her represented an extension of culture along with gatherings of family which built the basis for her cultural identity throughout her life. Harris shares various anecdotes that exemplify how certain memories regarding food as well as the varied characteristics of her cultures’ cuisine left a lasting imprint on how she began to view food and continued to proceeding forward. she stats “My family, like many others long separated from the south, raised me in ways that continued their eating traditions, so now I can head south and sop biscuits in gravy, suck chewy bits of fat from a pigs foot spattered with hot sauce, and yes’m and no’m with the best of ‘em,.” (Pg. 109 Para). Similarly, since I am Jamaican, food remains something that holds high importance in my life due to how my family prepared, flavored, and built a food-based atmosphere. They extended the same traditions from their country of origin within the new society they were thrusted into. The impact of food and how it has factors to comfort, heal, and bring people together holds high relevance in how my self-identity was shaped regarding food.

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.

I was born and raised in a small distant Himalayan country in a refugee camp. Expectations were really high. My moderately educated parents, who had been living without hope for almost two decades, thought that education was our only hope. So, every day was a new challenge for me to do well and learn something new. I was always emphasized of the significance of education in every walk of my life. It was the part of the dinner table talk. I had learned nothing but how education was important. I was determined and did well in my studies. However, the discourses that I had learned at home and my community differed to a great extent when we moved to the United States. I had developed a different identity kit, that separated me from the rest of the students who thought the completely other way around. I was always taught that education was the only and most important thing but as I looked at my high school classmates, it was just a part; while it still remained as the only important thing as my parents had emphasized onto me. Also, I found it quite challenging to think and respond similar and acquire the same discourse. The most challenging part was to learn, interpret and speak in English. Accordingly, as Williams mentioned I could clearly see the conflict between the academic discourse that was being taught in the classroom and

America’s education system is one of the most respectable, reputable and sought after commodities in our society, but it is also the most overcrowded, discriminatory, and controversial system ever established. Most people yearn for a higher education because it 's what 's expected in this society in order to get ahead. It means a better job, more money, power, prestige and a sense of entitlement. But this system has let down the children that are supposed to benefit from it. Education discriminates against minorities, and poorer class students are not expected nor encouraged to attain a higher education. The education system is set up to ensure that every child get a basic

Education is a wonderful asset to anyone. With a good one the sky is the limit, and without one opportunity may never come knocking. In today’s society, so much emphasis is put on education. How many times have we heard the saying “if you get a good education, you’ll get a good job and make a lot of money”? Even today, my parents remind me of how much a college degree would add to my marketability. But when does it become too much? Is it possible that one could overlook the more important values in life in search to become a “learned man”? In Richard Rodriguez’s story Challenging The Traditional Classroom he examines his life as a student, and the affects his learning has towards his attitude about family and heritage.

To begin with, fourteen years old Arnold describes his life while growing up in Wellpinit. He was malnourished. Arnold was a cartoonist, who often drew food and money and wished for it to be real. However, he realized the reality of being a reservation kid living with his family on the poor Spokane Indian Reservation. In the chapter, “Why Chicken Means So Much to Me,” he shares his formula about being poor. “Poverty is empty refrigerator plus empty stomach.” (Alexie 8). He described how sometimes his family missed a meal and slept on an empty stomach. Also, being hungry makes food taste better, especially when he hadn’t eaten for

Moreover, Ferris talks about how throughout the history of the south, the politics of power and place, have lead to the establishment of a cuisine that includes both privilege and deprivation. Thus, continuously impacting the food patterns of the modern day south. Ferris states, “In food lies the harsh dynamics of racism, sexism, class struggle, and ecological exploitation that have long defined the south; yet there, too, resides family, a strong connection to place, conviviality, creativity, and flavor” (Edible South, 1) . This is exemplified all throughout the text by many accounts of antebellum cuisine influenced by that of African and Native Americans.

Due to the (1) significance of education for each child on the planet, the (2) existing barriers to education around the world and the fact that (3) education is a lifelong learning process for everyone, this essay argues that it is essential to make sure that everyone in the world gets an education.

“I don’t mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is an education,” said Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education. In today's society, many people don’t realize how grateful they should be for the education they receive. Even the slightest education is much more than people were receiving just three centuries ago, and even more than people in countries besides the United States of America. In specifics, women and African Americans were once unable to pursue any form of education in the United States, along with many other ethnicities.

Education is an important necessity in every human being’s life. For some, school is just a dreadful constitution that people must sit in for 8 hours a day, eagerly waiting to get a diploma and move on in their next stage in life, however, for others it is life-saving and both Richard Rodriguez and Sherman Alexie can say this is their case. Education has made a great influence on both Alexie and Rodriguez’s life. Although both authors faced alienation due to their ethnic background, Alexie continuously keeps in touch with his Indian roots and family while Rodriguez has lost any contact that he has attained with his family and Mexican origins.

The issue of education provides a battleground for political debate and social issues. Writers such as Rodriguez, Alvarez, and Diaz explore different points of views of school children and how they deal with these issues. In addition, they provide them with a voice in which many children do not have. Looking into the thought processes of the minority children, “Daughter of Invention”, “The Boy Without a Flag”, and “Oscar Wao” look into what education provides for these children.

These children are defrauded not just of an education, but also of the ability to be socially mobile. Researchers of the American Psychological Association found that education level directly correlates with socioeconomic status. A lack of education undermines any individual’s true capability, preventing them from surpassing their academic limitations. Potential important figures and world leaders may never come to be if not given the tools to become what they can become. The next generation’s Einsteins and Gandhis will not exemplify their prowesses if never given the rudiments

Being un-educated is like being an infant in a dark room, both will constantly be anxious about their lack of knowledge or information. Millions of people in various countries across the world are condemned to this darkness due to their inability to receive an education. In Three Cups of Tea by David Oliver Relin, the abysmal state of the education in third world countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan stems from the absence or atrocious state of schools. This can be seen by looking at the influence the Taliban had over the system, the backwards nature of the madrassa’s which ingrained hate in the minds of children and also, the sexism in society. All these factors led to desperation amongst people to get an education for themselves or their

Education can make or break a person's life. Arguably, it is as necessary as food, water, and shelter because without an education, how will you get a job to pay rent, or bills, or go to the store? Educating oneself can be one of the best things you can do, and as such, there are many ways to educate yourself. Charter and private schools offer a prim and proper education, for a fee, public schools are required to teach all who come knocking, and you can even get an education online of you do so wish. Still, there are differences in opinion in how the material is delivered by the teacher to the student. One philosophy is the problem posing method put forwards by Paulo Freire in his work Pedagogy of the Oppressed. On the other hand, Michel Foucault glosses over education in his work, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Foucault and his controlled, and measured-but crushing and harmful-view of schooling contradicts with Freire and his hopes that all students will learn given enough free will to explore and study-a more effective form of education.