Jean Roxanne Santa Cruz
Paul Kintzele
English 4313-13794
Dec. 12, 2016
The effects of education in The Collector In John Fowles novel The Collector, education is used to distinguish the differences between the main characters; Fred and Miranda. The education level of the characters correspond with their family, class, and power. Fred had a great amount of loss and struggles in his childhood. The lack of encouragement and closeness with his family affected his interest in higher education and mental stability. Miranda on the other hand has her share of family struggles but unlike Fred she grew up in a better home with well-educated parents of an upper-middle class. Their educational differences led them to learn different things about one another and their surroundings. With Miranda, education plays a role on how she is in her relationship with Fred, G.P, and how both relationships have similarities. Some people may argue that being educated can come in two forms; formal education and life experiences. Being educated means to have learned a skill and knowledge that can be used throughout life (Gaff 4). Everyone is educated in some way, some people are just better educated than others. Different people will acknowledge that an educated person has other concepts than formal education (Pring 10). Miranda expresses formal education considering her social class, family background, and as an art major. Fred exhibits being educated through life experiences; works at the county
One thing we do know is that education fits in all stages or groups in life. These groups help us to learn new rules and patterns associated with that age group. People do not play by the same set of roles throughout their lives. The different roles go with different patterns of behavior and learning levels that have to be taught. This implies that throughout our lives we are constantly being taught the education process.
Secondly, the characters possess different views regarding the effects of education. In “University”, the protagonist believes that he has become more educated compared to his parents, while in “Warren Pryor”, the protagonist feels as if education has degraded him. Warren Pryor describes himself as a “young bear inside his teller’s cage”. His job as a bank teller restricts him from what he really wishes to do; he wants to assist his parents on the farm. In contrast, the protagonist of “University” feels that “the day [he] left, [he] began to believe it. [His] knowledge fits [his] hands like a manicure too expensive to soil with the fact of these farms”. The protagonist describes how farm life is now inferior to his educated mind. However, education also affects the parents of the protagonists. When the parents of Warren witnessed him in his new job, “they blushed with pride. They marveled... He was saved from their thistle-strewn farm and its red dirt”. Warren’s parents were completely overwhelmed with joy at their son’s success in life, but were unaware of the fact that Warren was actually unsatisfied with his current lifestyle. The parents are not as concerned if Warren becomes distant from them due to the sacrifices that they have made to give Warren education. In contrast, the protagonist’s parents in “University” are aware that their child
This concept of education determines how education is essential for one’s life. It is the milestone towards success. Even though an individual came from an informal
What does it mean to be well educated? To be well educated it is a balance between academics and practical knowledge. Throughout this paper I will show that one does not necessarily need a college degree to be deemed as well educated. I will explore both aspects of academics and practical knowledge and how it affects individuals.
Rose’s background and credentials give him the credibility he needs in order to effectively express and backup his claims about blue-collar workers. As a professor who specializes in literacy and learning, Rose applies his studies and presents it to the audience in order to establish a high level of authority. Rose explains how his mother quit school in seventh grade and how his father never earned a higher education as well. As for Rose, he proved his education by saying, “I went back to graduate school to study education and cognitive psychology and eventually became a faculty member in a school of education” (246-247). By this alone, the reader can see Rose went farther in formal education than either of his parents did. Rose acquired extensive knowledge throughout his academic years. His studies revolved around human behavior and psyche, which created the basis for analysis of his own family who endured a life of blue-collar community. By including this in his article, Rose is letting the reader know that he can back up his own life stories with studies. Rose willingly exposes his childhood life as a way to express the complexity of such jobs, and to clarify that those jobs contain much more than just the physical aspects of it. While, yes Rose believed his mother’s job was more than just physical having seen her work first hand, that
When the definition of education is looked up in the dictionary it comes out as “a degree, level, or kind of schooling”. While attending a university or obtaining a degree is largely viewed as being educated, there are many other ways to become educated rather than a degree with your name on it. Gerald Graff, and Mike Rose show their personal experience of being educated without a degree. Being educated is different for everybody, and regardless it’s the person’s personal experiences and lessons that lead them to thrive for an education in their own unique fashion. Mike Rose, professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, comes from a family of blue-collar workers.
Some people might like education, others might dread it and really don’t see a reason to continue learning about it. Today, for teachers and professors it’s easy to them to tell how the education they teach is effective for an individual student. As we know, education is being taught at school, home, and a little of both. For America today, most children attend preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school, and college. Depending on the pupil's career choice, it can take up to 20 or more years completing their schooling system, Usually, during the middle and or high school years in America, professors teach you valid things pupils will be using in life.
Education is the gradual process of meaning making and acquiring “knowledge.” One views the world through his or her own set of lenses or filters, from his or her own perspective, and the mind of the learner attempts to connect new information to existing schema to make new connections. These constructions and connections in the brain become "knowledge." Therefore, knowledge when people begin to understand facts or information through experience and/or learning. We begin to realize, through knowledge, details that we learn in isolation are actually interconnected. Education can be intentional or unintentional and can occur everywhere and at any time. Education is greatly influenced by affective factors and social context. It has both internal and external value, both to a person and to all of society.
Education plays a very significant role when it comes to completing the identity that you would want to be in the future. It’s a cloth that we wear in order to make an appeal to everyone we meet on a daily basis. It serves as our identity that will carry your name in any establishment you may go. Education is considered as a vital component to say that you’re a rational being who’s capable of competing with the ever-widening and toilsome challenges along the road as we grow up. It introduces us into different aspects of what we call life in order to hone us and shape us into the best person that we could become. But what makes a person educated? What makes a person successful? Does education really make one person successful? Is the correlation
Learning doctrines play a vital role in today’s competitive business industry especially in the rouse of new ways to form and conduct companies. Education is more than to learn or memorize files, even though commonly confused as such. Education you simply have it or not. I believe that be educated means that you have the skill to think analytically, and to accept and reconnoiter different standpoints.
Education in the United States is a very crucial part of a person’s life. Going to school opens doors and facilitates the pathway for future individual achievement and economic success. Formal education is a conscious effort by human society to convey the skills and modes of thought considered essential for social functioning.
Education has been a complex concept and remains a relevant notion in texts across time.
The term ‘education’ can mean many things. An education is the collective knowledge a person has, but what does an education mean? Although an education can be paid for, no one can physically give you an education, so it is not a gift. There are societal situations where an education is a necessity, but not many globally. Education is a tool to be utilized differently in every part of the world. Knowledge is power, but some knowledge is more powerful depending on your region. If you are part a primitive tribe in New Guinea, a person that is considered to be educated may be illiterate. Whereas in America, an illiterate person would have trouble functioning at all in society. Education is a tool that is to be
Education can be defined as a learning process in which a student and a teacher are involved. The work of the teacher is to pass on the message to the student while the student understands and applies what has been taught. It is also considered as a process of developing skills, knowledge and character of an individual. Education, whether formal or informal, has a function both to the individual and the society, these functions are either manifest or latent. There is a distinction between the manifest and latent functions in that the manifest functions are those that are intended whereas the latter are the unintended functions (Douglas, 2003).
Education is a two-character long word in Chinese and can be explained separately. Shuowen Jiezi (literally:"Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters") written by Xu Shen,an early 2nd-century Chinese dictionary from the Han Dynasty. From this dictionary, education is adults’ impact to children or the upper class’s impact to the lower class. And its purpose is to make the educated be good, usually by imitation. That is, education is the activity of influencing with the purpose of those with upper status (monarch, parents, teachers, etc.) on those in a lower status (courtiers, children, students, etc.).