n the United States each child has the right to receive a proper education. It is their right to attend school everyday, however after the age sixteen they are not forced to go anymore. Plato defines knowledge as finding beauty itself. There’s always the agreement about how proper is the education we giving to our children. Children in the United States go to school from the age of five till about the age of eighteen to learn basic life educational skills. However, when it comes to education in politics the majority of the United States lacks knowledge on politics. Being that the United States is a democracy, members of the country fail to use their right to vote in the elections that mater. The major reason why the millennial’s are uneducated
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Brian Cannon provided a lecture on Gerry-manderring and the effects of it. Gerry-manderring is when a political figure running for office changes the voting lines in their district for their benefit. Gerry-manderring is legal in the United States as long as it used politically, if it is used racially it is considered illegal. Dr. Cannon provided us with examples in which political and racial Gerry-manderring is pretty much the same thing. Dr. Cannon works for Virginia 2021 a company that informs people on voting rights. One of the goals of Virginia 2021 is to make political gerrymandering illegal as well. Throughout Dr. Cannon’s lecture we were able to discover the ways in which politics has changed he presented us with different graphs on how liberal and moderate congress and the senate has changed over the years. As the chart got closer to the present time there is less and less moderate people. Presenting that we as a nation are changing our mentality in politics. Dr. Cannon also pointed out that because of our regulation of voting for congress and senate we are constantly electing the same person into office. He also stated that less and less people vote during state elections compared to federal elections. As a society we should be careful in who we are electing into office state wide because those are the people we are choosing to represent us in selecting candidates to receive our electoral college …show more content…
When in reality they should be campaigning to teach the youth about actual politics while they are retaining education. The majority of the time that people vote they are voting because said politician said they would work hard to change something the voter really wants to see changed. Voters are not educated in what to look for in candidates and hardly even know what it means to be part of the political parties. As a nation Socrates would probably look at us and discuss that we have no guardians because our people aren’t really educated. Those who believe they are rulers in Socrates eyes would not be considered as the best leaders because they failed at their job to share their knowledge with the rest of the people. Currently in the United States each state has a history program in which they require all school to teach children about the basic history facts. Very briefly students are thought about the United States
Brian Cannon provided a lecture on Gerry-manderring and the effects of it. Gerry-manderring is when a political figure running for office changes the voting lines in their district for their benefit. Gerry-manderring is legal in the United States as long as it used politically, if it is used racially it is considered illegal. Dr. Cannon provided us with examples in which political and racial Gerry-manderring is pretty much the same thing. Dr. Cannon works for Virginia 2021 a company that informs people on voting rights. One of the goals of Virginia 2021 is to make political gerrymandering illegal as well. Throughout Dr. Cannon’s lecture we were able to discover the ways in which politics has changed he presented us with different graphs on how liberal and moderate congress and the senate has changed over the years. As the chart got closer to the present time there is less and less moderate people. Presenting that we as a nation are changing our mentality in politics. Dr. Cannon also pointed out that because of our regulation of voting for congress and senate we are constantly electing the same person into office. He also stated that less and less people vote during state elections compared to federal elections. As a society we should be careful in who we are electing into office state wide because those are the people we are choosing to represent us in selecting candidates to receive our electoral college …show more content…
When in reality they should be campaigning to teach the youth about actual politics while they are retaining education. The majority of the time that people vote they are voting because said politician said they would work hard to change something the voter really wants to see changed. Voters are not educated in what to look for in candidates and hardly even know what it means to be part of the political parties. As a nation Socrates would probably look at us and discuss that we have no guardians because our people aren’t really educated. Those who believe they are rulers in Socrates eyes would not be considered as the best leaders because they failed at their job to share their knowledge with the rest of the people. Currently in the United States each state has a history program in which they require all school to teach children about the basic history facts. Very briefly students are thought about the United States