Antiquarian View Of American Education Analysis

Education is the process in which society transmits knowledge, values, and certain expectations to its members, children, adolescents, and adults. Society wants its members to give back productive results and function for the society as well. Education, for a long period of time, has been a sensitive subject in the United States, with a variety of mixed responses. One of the most controversial questions is: Who is responsible to ensure that educational goals are met? Conversely this question is a result of several challenges and obstacles in education. Some of the obstacle revolve around challenges and obstacles in the educational field, such as: difficulties for African-Americans and immigrants with regard to obtaining the same resources in …show more content…
For instance, parents will often complain about the education that their child receives at school, but only a few of parents really collaborate or take on the responsibility of helping their children improve at home. The family’s help is necessary, but in many cases, parental negligence regarding the education of their children is one of the issues more frequently seen, even though parents might be aware that their responsibility is to care for the outcome of education. In the article Assimilation, Adjustment, and Access: An Antiquarian View of American Education, the author references this inconvenience, “Although families and communities are much more powerful influences upon children than are their schools, it is the schools that remain the institutions that the public attempts to manipulate to form the children” (Graham 2). Why is the family position more powerful? A child has the respect toward their parents, so it is easier for the parents to enforce their authority on the child and about his/her education. Families are responsible for supervising the education of the children, and in an article called Family, Education and Social Constructivism, the author confirms “The responsibility of supervising the educational process of the child lies with the family as the first educational factor” (Sterian 2). One’s family is also responsible for teaching children ethnic values such as; respect, tolerance, and morality, because these values shape both the personality of children and their view of education. With these values children would give more importance to education, respect the professors, and become interested in passing each level in the school. Coincidentally, discipline is also a factor that belongs to the familial obligation to enforce within their children. Families must establish rules for children