A Response to A Talk to Teachers
“Knowledge is a bonding agent” (Rose page 7). In society, education should be the guide for an individual’s success; it acts like the force that connects a person with their surroundings. In James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers”, the cogent essay describes the repercussions, the racial inequality, and the propaganda germane to the American education during the 1960’s. Baldwin emphasizes individual thinking as a solution to the racial inequality and propaganda. He states that the purpose of education is to recognize the world around them and make decisions on their own. Baldwin uses the case of African Americans and their suffering in society as the paragon of the menace that debilitates American society, by stating …show more content…
Students that are more academically equipped take more challenging courses while other students that are academically inept are required to take courses that on considered on-level. From Rose’s essay, students that are in a lower skilled course often accept their fate in society; their lives are guided by society and they accept their position because the vocational track students feel that they are unable to achieve high goals, such as the high school students taking college level courses. The vocational students are suppressed within their education courses. In high schools, there is evidence that people who lack the tenacity to succeed in school end up accepting their fate and leading bleak lives. The suppressed students have a narrow view on life rather than a sophisticated, worldly view, and they feel that they fail to belong with the world. At the beginning of Rose’s essay, he believes that he is affected by his surrounding students in the vocational track by becoming another student in society that lacks ambition and determination to make it out of the vocational track. The students all fall at the hands of …show more content…
Rose states, “Jack MacFarland couldn’t have come into my life at a better time” (Rose page 5). Other students in the vocational track were unable to succeed because the vocational track and the environment limited their potential. Throughout the essay, Rose explains how his personal experiences helped signify the purpose of education as a guide to become successful. Unfortunately, other students, much like Ken Harvey, in the vocational track have similar expressions as Ken because they lack the teachers to help them succeed. Rose was presented a silver lining in his academics in the form of a mentor. His mentor allowed Rose to escape the bounds of the vocational track and achieve higher ends in life. At the end of the essay, Rose states that “[Education] enabled me to do things in the world” (Rose page
“Knowledge is a bonding agent” (Rose page 7). In society, education should be the guide for an individual’s success; it acts like the force that connects a person with their surroundings. In James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers”, the cogent essay describes the repercussions, the racial inequality, and the propaganda germane to the American education during the 1960’s. Baldwin emphasizes individual thinking as a solution to the racial inequality and propaganda. He states that the purpose of education is to recognize the world around them and make decisions on their own. Baldwin uses the case of African Americans and their suffering in society as the paragon of the menace that debilitates American society, by stating …show more content…
Students that are more academically equipped take more challenging courses while other students that are academically inept are required to take courses that on considered on-level. From Rose’s essay, students that are in a lower skilled course often accept their fate in society; their lives are guided by society and they accept their position because the vocational track students feel that they are unable to achieve high goals, such as the high school students taking college level courses. The vocational students are suppressed within their education courses. In high schools, there is evidence that people who lack the tenacity to succeed in school end up accepting their fate and leading bleak lives. The suppressed students have a narrow view on life rather than a sophisticated, worldly view, and they feel that they fail to belong with the world. At the beginning of Rose’s essay, he believes that he is affected by his surrounding students in the vocational track by becoming another student in society that lacks ambition and determination to make it out of the vocational track. The students all fall at the hands of …show more content…
Rose states, “Jack MacFarland couldn’t have come into my life at a better time” (Rose page 5). Other students in the vocational track were unable to succeed because the vocational track and the environment limited their potential. Throughout the essay, Rose explains how his personal experiences helped signify the purpose of education as a guide to become successful. Unfortunately, other students, much like Ken Harvey, in the vocational track have similar expressions as Ken because they lack the teachers to help them succeed. Rose was presented a silver lining in his academics in the form of a mentor. His mentor allowed Rose to escape the bounds of the vocational track and achieve higher ends in life. At the end of the essay, Rose states that “[Education] enabled me to do things in the world” (Rose page