Whether it be public or private, they are given an education, that is, an education in the eyes of the state. What is taught in schools is dictated both at a national and a state level, and, thanks to common core education, this has not only taken away the teacher’s ability and privilege to teach, but also restricted students to basic information that is both lackluster and uninspiring. To John Henry Newman, a cardinal in the Catholic Church, knowledge is something that “sees more than the senses convey, [something] which reasons upon what it sees … and invests it with an idea,” but in schools in America there is no seeing more or investing in ideas, it’s just taking notes, testing, and moving onto the next subject (27). Teachers are required by common core education laws to stick to a strict schedule and rarely, if ever, venture off script. National Testing is all everyone seems to care about, and how America stands up against the other countries. People seem to ignore the fact that America is actually the worst of the first world countries in primary education. They question why it’s so hard to get a job and when the facts are staring them in the face. America wants higher education but simply can’t deliver it when they don’t teach critical thinking in the
Whether it be public or private, they are given an education, that is, an education in the eyes of the state. What is taught in schools is dictated both at a national and a state level, and, thanks to common core education, this has not only taken away the teacher’s ability and privilege to teach, but also restricted students to basic information that is both lackluster and uninspiring. To John Henry Newman, a cardinal in the Catholic Church, knowledge is something that “sees more than the senses convey, [something] which reasons upon what it sees … and invests it with an idea,” but in schools in America there is no seeing more or investing in ideas, it’s just taking notes, testing, and moving onto the next subject (27). Teachers are required by common core education laws to stick to a strict schedule and rarely, if ever, venture off script. National Testing is all everyone seems to care about, and how America stands up against the other countries. People seem to ignore the fact that America is actually the worst of the first world countries in primary education. They question why it’s so hard to get a job and when the facts are staring them in the face. America wants higher education but simply can’t deliver it when they don’t teach critical thinking in the