In order to gain a great education it first starts with the curriculum. The curriculum determines the information that students learn. However, nowadays some students don’t receive the same type of challenging curriculum to challenge their intellectual thinking.
Therefore, students who are disadvantaged have no opportunity to gain ground when learning. This has become a huge problem because most curriculums have become centered on the state tests, or aren’t challenging enough to help students strive towards success. Robert Schwartz explains one of the main problems that occur with having a less effective curriculum. “The goal of equipping all students with a solid foundation of academic knowledge and skills is leading to an undue narrowing of …show more content…
The teachers that we have now range from very poor to great. Some teachers do not have a true passion to teach, instead they work based off merit pay. Rose states that, “the majority of people who enter teaching do so for fairly altruistic reasons. They like working with kids. They like science, literature, or history and want to spark that appreciation in others. They see inequality and want to make a difference in young people’s lives.” However, the general population doesn’t understand that improving our society and things such as poverty are contributed to having a better education system. Horace Mann specifically changed his profession in law to a career in education, because he believe that there is little to no hope trying to save society by punishing criminals with minds that are already developed by their experiences throughout their lifetime. Mann argued “laws failed because they dealt with adults, whose character was already shaped, and that the real hope was in molding the child” (83). Therefore, teachers should have the mindset as Horace Mann of developing young children into successful adults rather then basing their performance off of their
Therefore, students who are disadvantaged have no opportunity to gain ground when learning. This has become a huge problem because most curriculums have become centered on the state tests, or aren’t challenging enough to help students strive towards success. Robert Schwartz explains one of the main problems that occur with having a less effective curriculum. “The goal of equipping all students with a solid foundation of academic knowledge and skills is leading to an undue narrowing of …show more content…
The teachers that we have now range from very poor to great. Some teachers do not have a true passion to teach, instead they work based off merit pay. Rose states that, “the majority of people who enter teaching do so for fairly altruistic reasons. They like working with kids. They like science, literature, or history and want to spark that appreciation in others. They see inequality and want to make a difference in young people’s lives.” However, the general population doesn’t understand that improving our society and things such as poverty are contributed to having a better education system. Horace Mann specifically changed his profession in law to a career in education, because he believe that there is little to no hope trying to save society by punishing criminals with minds that are already developed by their experiences throughout their lifetime. Mann argued “laws failed because they dealt with adults, whose character was already shaped, and that the real hope was in molding the child” (83). Therefore, teachers should have the mindset as Horace Mann of developing young children into successful adults rather then basing their performance off of their