Education does not matter. This was proved by the city-state of Sparta 2500 years ago. Sparta was located in southern Greece on a Peninsula called the Peloponnese. After it conquered the peninsula, it faced enemies both inside (the helots) and outside their little homeland (like the Persians). To deal with their threats, they developed an education system that despite its narrowness, it generally served them well.…
In the Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl’s model of social class, there are couple of criteria classify people into different social class ladders, such as the Capitalist, Upper Middle Social Class and Working Poor. Usually the model will judge the people through looking on their family income, occupation of family member hold and their education level. Under the model, I believe that my family belongs to the Upper Middle Social Class. It is mainly because my family income is above $125,000, but below the income earned from capitalist. Also, my parents were the small and medium sizes business owners, the occupation of their job title is similar with the profession and upper manager.…
The article, “As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor”, by Earl Shorris was an eye opening piece for me as it displayed the absence of education in the lives of individuals living in poor regions. Prior to reading this article, I remained under the inaccurate certainty that indigent individuals opt to not get educated or make satisfactory in school. However, subsequently reading Shorris’ editorial I become conscious that factors such as lack of support from parents, drug addiction, effects of poverty, and the “absence of politics in their lives” were the reasons for the lack of education and destitution. Examining the life of several of the students, through Shorris’ words made me apprehend that occasionally I regard my education and…
Education plays a vital role in our society. Without it, the success and development of many countries would be nonexistent. Due to education, people can understand the difference between right and wrong, and they are able to create equal standards of many things, such as living, throughout the nation. This theory, however, is why Frederick Douglass was unable to openly and easily obtain the education that should should have been available from the very start. The racist society that he was forced to live in forbade him from earning an education whilst the same society enforced the education of Benjamin Franklin.…
According to Durkheim, “Public education would be a first step that allowed for the equality of opportunity” (comments from the labor of division 2). We can also note, that most sociologist agree that education plays a vital role to the advancement of society, but disagree on the numerous different approaches to achieve this. One item that can be proven is an educated society creates a more economically stable society. It is no surprise that lower income students typically do not have the same resources available to them compared to individuals in the middle class.…
What some people may fail to understand is that education is a part of the way of life. We need education in order to expand our knowledge and develop our minds. People in this world need to be able to experience education because it can take you places even out of your comfort zone. It helps open opportunities you didn’t think you could have. In the essay of “Hungry” it stated, “None of my relatives and none of my parents friends had been to college.…
“Times have changed and they’ve changed in this case for the better”, by Ann Gutmann. This quote reflects the experiences a Mary Brave Bird, a Native American female activist and Charlotte Forten, an African American female activist. Their work for freedom and women’s rights can be credited to the changes of this century. Our country was not accepting of diversity and gender equality. Their stories take place during the country’s intense struggle to “provide order” and “civilize” society.…
The societies we live in, the relationship we have and create with other people, the ways we accommodate or resist unfairness and oppression, and the ways we choose to think about these phenomena are both limited and enabled by our place in the economic structure of society. In any level (individual, community, and societal) whether we like it or not, all are influenced by our place in an economic and social order. So education is shaped by cultural and economic influences (Althusser & Gramsci, 1971). Education also shapes how we experience social, cultural, and economic forces.…
A city is never going to be perfect. You will always have the criminals that take justice into their own hands or those that take over the city without being just to the people, for example the government. They take over the poor who are known as the minority and they strip them from their labor earnings through taxes. The reenact the robber barons in the 19th century although they are not unethically tormenting they are breaking this class down. We see this every where in our country and its been going on for decades.…
Throughout history, education has always played an important role in people’s lives. Education, or lack thereof, in many ways, shapes a person’s life and what they will become in society. Many people have argued over time on what the best form of education is and how it should be implemented. Harry Brighouse, in his book On Education, offers an argument that the central purpose of education should be to promote the flourishing of humans. While Brighouse does present a unique idea as to what the central purpose of education should be, his argument is impractical and not without its pitfalls.…
Many problems are affecting economic development in most countries around the world. Among all the problems, education is one the most significant factors that challenge poverty. In today's society, the individual with no proper education is most likely not to get a good paying job. People with low paying job have to struggle just to make a living. Education comes in many forms of life, and it is essential because of the results of the knowledge learned from the valuable experience in life outside the classroom.…
1. Marginal external cost is the cost of producing an additional unit of a good or service that falls on people other than producer. It is the amount of air, water, or noise pollution resulting from producing additional unit of a good or service. 2.…
The educational system has emerged as the dominant ideological state apparatus (Althusser) of modern society, and is therefore the primary apparatus that allows the dominant economic system to reproduce itself. Some may argue that without an education, a poor person would never be able to identify that they are being wronged by the system, that they would be blind to their exploitation and therefore unable to defend themselves against it. Shorris uses an anecdote about Aristotle to demonstrate this; when a student analyzed the philosopher’s thoughts on self-indulgence, the class collectively realized that they “were all inheritors of wounds caused by the incontinence of educated men; now they had an ally in Aristotle, who had given them a way to analyze the actions of their antagonists” (12). Here, Shorris implies that without the ancient teachings of Aristotle, his impoverished students would never be able to decode the reasoning behind their exploitation. What Shorris does not mention is that it is often through this education that the upper class’ ideology is buried beneath its liberating qualities and it’s faults are…
The education system is supposed to distribute knowledge, however it is designed to maintain the power in the hand of the upper class, excluding the lower classes from this power (Faccault,1971…
Illiteracy Imagine having no ability to read or write. Imagine not going to school. This is what children in child labor go through. Illiteracy is one of many effects of child labor. Children in child labor don’t get to learn to read and write because they don’t have time to go to school and work to support their families.…