The Importance Of Education In Education

In James Baldwin’s “Talk to Teachers”, he discusses the ways in which education is taught and practiced in schools. Contrary to this, Baldwin has other beliefs and feels that education should be regulated in other ways. Baldwin states, “the purpose of education...is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it, at no matter what risk.” During my personal school experience, I’ve noticed that the education system values discipline rather than my education. I agree with Baldwin and believe that schools should prioritize an unbiased education to the students so that we can think for ourselves and to stand up for what's right.

The book states that “In a democratic classroom, the teacher has the opportunity to learn from, with, alongside students, rather than being the keepers of knowledge.” This is especially beneficial for the students, because for many students in low income schools, their environments make students feel disempowered, where feel like they have no say in how they live their lives. Though this is nearly obliterated, because a democratic classroom lets the students take the position of power where they students get to be “praised as ‘heroes’ and eagerly questioned” for their choices. They get to make decisions where they will be able to see the effects of those choices. By giving these students that choice, you give them some power over their lives and let them feel the results of that

Not everyone feels that an education is valuable in a child’s life. Stone’s group several arguments together; in which they all focused on competition, lotteries and elections. These types of distribution fall solely in someone hands and not usually created through policies. Stone uses the example of a judge determining if you’re guilty or not by a flip of a

Our founders recognized that public schools are a vital institution of American democracy. But education, they also knew, involved more than reading, writing, and arithmetic. Education in a democratic society requires developing citizens who can adapt to changing times, make decisions about social issues, and effectively judge the performance of public officials. In fulfilling their responsibilities, public schools must not only provide knowledge of many subject areas and essential skills, but must also educate students on core American values such as fairness, equality, justice, respect for others, and the right to dissent. Rapid social, political, and technological changes have escalated controversy over what and how schools should teach.

Yet such viewpoints are impacted in the way one was raised, thus the importance of the family unit. Parents bare the responsibility to teach their children to live morally. In her talk in 1989, Chapter 5 “Moral Conduct,” Scoresby shares some intellect on how to provide children with a solid moral foundation. She expresses that; “Children cannot choose to refrain from doing something immoral unless they are active doers. The better we teach children to do things, the easier it will be for us to teach that there are times when it is useful to choose to be passive.

This module provided an overview of a broad range of policy issues which fall under the category of the Education Policy. Educational policy relates to the role of the government in all active steps to dictate the citizens lives. In regards to the “May” portion of the “May-Can-Should,” approach is there should be a jurisdictional separation to the educational policy, Home School, compared to Christian School. The purpose of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is that everyone in the United States has the right to practice his or her own religion, or no religion at all (ACLU, 2015). For that reason, “Congress should make no laws because our personal areas we have control of” (Dunbar,

America has strive to become a great country, of equality and of justice. Although the nation still has a long way to go in order to achieve an utopian society, it attempts to be as fair as possible to all its citizens. American citizens, both you and I, aspire to help our communities grow. We want to see other members of our society achieve their full potential. However, the methods in which the United States education system attempts to create equality ends up creating a system of injustice and unfairness.

Approximately 15 million children live with unhealthy control (Statistics). These 15 million children have gone through very unhealthy control throughout their lives all because of their parents; however, the research that has be done will be taking a look at how easy it is to control an offspring without breaking any laws, and figuring out what effects are caused to the children, then comparing the results to those of abusive parents. Perhaps there are too many loopholes in the rules and laws that causes progenitors to be able to abuse their power, or maybe the laws and rights contradict each other to the point where it discombobulates parents and children, in the respect of what they are allowed to do. Through the use of the The Bill of Rights,

This book helps to explain whether or not parents are the solution to educational inequality. With some policy makers believing parental involvement is the cure, this book chooses to challenge and argue otherwise. The authors attempt to engage the readers from the beginning, by quoting an epigraph of Barrack Obama which pleasantly sets the scene as he states “responsibility of our children’s education must begin at home”. (p.1)

values. Nor is it wrong or unreasonable to limit the state’s control over what one’s children

A parents’ carelessness to a moral education for their children leads to a moral abdication. Being careless provides a moral abdication but more lead to abdication. A parent’s discomfort may in the future lead to a moral abdication. Cole expresses in this essay “Parents, relatives, neighbors who are made uncomfortable by so called “innocent” nature of the questions children may ask or the statements they may make.” (Cole pg.339). Children may ask questions that will make adults uneasy. If one asked by a child “Why is that child a different color than me.” That will make people in the

Sir Francis Bacon once proclaimed in his book Meditationes Sacrae and Human Philosophy, “Knowledge is power.” If “Knowledge is power,” than whoever teaches his knowledge would possess the power over the student. Likewise, when parents decide where to enrollee that school whether public or private possess enormous power to shape their young child’s life. Since they possess great control over a parent’s child, it greatly affects the kind of person that child will turn into. Where children go to school affect their whole lives.

“The Right to Control One’s Learning”, by John Holt, is an article that focuses on how people should have the right to control and direct their own method of learning. Holt goes in depth by claiming that the school systems are corrupting the students and their right of controlling their own learning is in jeopardy. The article has pro-learning and anti-schooling as the overall tone. Speaking about this, I do believe that general schooling is necessary, students can still achieve similar results without being forced in an unjust and strict environment. Holt provides various points which includes students’ freedom of choice, school being too oppressive, and unnecessary teachings at school.

Democratic education also allows one to gain skills that can be use in everyday situation. Nussbaum notes, “This tradition argues that education is not just about the passive assimilation of facts and cultural traditions, but about challenging the mind to become active, competent, and thoughtfully critical in a complex world. This model of education supplanted an older one in which children sat still at desks all day and simply absorbed, and then regurgitated, the material that was brought their way.” (Nussbaum 18) Nussbaum criticizes the minimal use of just retaining useless information. Knowledge not utilize is equivalent to no knowledge at all. However, with democratic education one can utilize their knowledge to get out of a situation, for example, an American tourist visiting the Middle East and having the knowledge and culture awareness to greet a native Middle Eastern with the appropriate handshake.

Education is an important structure in society that shapes the most important years of your life, and therefore many theorists have ideas about what is wrong with education, what is right, and what needs to change or develop. Education is confined a lot by social control and social reproduction. Social control is a concept that refers to how social systems control the way we feel, think, behave, and even how we should present ourselves. These can appear openly, shown as rules and laws, or they could be not openly acknowledged and just appear as the “common” thing to do. Social reproduction is the reproduction of inequalities throughout generation-to-generation, one way education does this is how it supplies “wealthy” schools more and “poor” schools less. Michael Apple and Maxine Greene both define Social reproductions and Social Control. Throughout this text, I will explain the theories of Greene and Apple, as well as comparing and contrasting them against one another while applying some of my own experiences of education.