In the book Emile or on the education, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher provided a treaty dealing with the art to create perfect good men. Through the life of Emile, a fictive character, the text provides, step-by-step the educational question and how people must be educated in our society.
The question of the education has always been a significant issue in our society. According to the dictionary, education is: “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.“ and “ an enlightening experience.“
Through centuries, governments understood the role of education as a primary factor of success through opportunities and thus the creation of a state’s wealth. Consequently, states use …show more content…
This society was known as a meritocracy one. However, because of the industrial revolution and an unequal share of gain, resulted from a high economic growth , the opportunities for an individual are mainly from his social backgrounds. The social origins and the capital of a person are now ruling the opportunities of an individual in America. It is clearly true that these components are unfair because a person from a high class can become whatever he wants because he got the chance to born in a ‘ wealthy family‘.
As a social class and an unequal share of the wealth have shifted the significance of the education, it is maybe the time to rethink the system. Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA has worked with this question by suggesting another view to share the wealth. Indeed, he argues for a distribution of wealth through the non-existence of the legacy by substituting the legacy by an automatic donation for each people at their birth of an amount of land that will be given back to the society after the death of the individual. Consequently, the opportunities would belong to the person and this ability to achieve an
The question of the education has always been a significant issue in our society. According to the dictionary, education is: “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.“ and “ an enlightening experience.“
Through centuries, governments understood the role of education as a primary factor of success through opportunities and thus the creation of a state’s wealth. Consequently, states use …show more content…
This society was known as a meritocracy one. However, because of the industrial revolution and an unequal share of gain, resulted from a high economic growth , the opportunities for an individual are mainly from his social backgrounds. The social origins and the capital of a person are now ruling the opportunities of an individual in America. It is clearly true that these components are unfair because a person from a high class can become whatever he wants because he got the chance to born in a ‘ wealthy family‘.
As a social class and an unequal share of the wealth have shifted the significance of the education, it is maybe the time to rethink the system. Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA has worked with this question by suggesting another view to share the wealth. Indeed, he argues for a distribution of wealth through the non-existence of the legacy by substituting the legacy by an automatic donation for each people at their birth of an amount of land that will be given back to the society after the death of the individual. Consequently, the opportunities would belong to the person and this ability to achieve an