Over the years, educational staff: Doctors, Professors, Teachers, have all argued what form of education should be implemented in our future generation’s education. The overarching question is, what is the purpose of our education system? Over the years we’ve been led to believe our level of education is correlated with how much profit we gain. Many believe, there are pushbacks and downfalls to this logic. Our generation’s education needs to focus on preparing our future generation for difficult tasks in society. Our education should prepare us for the following: a breadth of interests, our career, communication, and moral reasoning. First and foremost, one of the purposes of education is a breadth of interests for college students. According
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In the book, The Closing of the American Mind, Bloom discerns truth as relative or absolute. Relative truth being multiple views or opinions that can be right while absolute is where a different opinion isn’t tolerated. Bloom makes the argument, “The point is not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think you are right at all”, (Bloom 1987 26). In this statement, Bloom seems to be arguing that we should not stick with one answer, but continue to think what are the other possibilities. In a way, students must venture out of their comfort zone and communicate their ideas no matter how confusing or wrong they might be, because there are no right answers. The end result should be some form of vision for the good of the public. Bloom continues by stating “But when there are no shared goals or vision of the public good, is the social contract any longer possible?” (Bloom 1987 26). With outside factors influencing our education system, the only vision these business factors see is profit. These factors that make a profit out of student’s education are under no obligation to give back to the community. This is another vulnerability our education and society has from factors that try to make a profit off of the system. Democracy is our foundation, but it is hard sustain if the social contract is …show more content…
When money is involved, colleges may find it difficult to prioritize their student’s first. Programs and funding to better a student’s education would be far less important than making the most profit possible. To fight such an issue, the state of Texas passed a law requiring public colleges to release in depth info to the incoming students. The law was passed in 2009, and received bad press due to its controversial proposal. Requiring professors to release information such as, detailed course description, syllabi, curriculum vitae, attendance cost, etc. The law gets more negative attention when requirements ask for personal information such as salary and published works. When professors release in depth information as required, those that oppose can attack specific professors that may teach controversial topics. Professors are outraged at the fact that the school system and public mistrust them so. This is where they need to understand that the law is necessary to protect our kid’s future in education. The misconception that the public deserve to see how their taxes are being used, makes it seem like we don’t respect or trust our hardworking professors when that is not at all the case. It is only to help prevent factors that may make a profit out of our education system and harm our kid’s
In the book, The Closing of the American Mind, Bloom discerns truth as relative or absolute. Relative truth being multiple views or opinions that can be right while absolute is where a different opinion isn’t tolerated. Bloom makes the argument, “The point is not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think you are right at all”, (Bloom 1987 26). In this statement, Bloom seems to be arguing that we should not stick with one answer, but continue to think what are the other possibilities. In a way, students must venture out of their comfort zone and communicate their ideas no matter how confusing or wrong they might be, because there are no right answers. The end result should be some form of vision for the good of the public. Bloom continues by stating “But when there are no shared goals or vision of the public good, is the social contract any longer possible?” (Bloom 1987 26). With outside factors influencing our education system, the only vision these business factors see is profit. These factors that make a profit out of student’s education are under no obligation to give back to the community. This is another vulnerability our education and society has from factors that try to make a profit off of the system. Democracy is our foundation, but it is hard sustain if the social contract is …show more content…
When money is involved, colleges may find it difficult to prioritize their student’s first. Programs and funding to better a student’s education would be far less important than making the most profit possible. To fight such an issue, the state of Texas passed a law requiring public colleges to release in depth info to the incoming students. The law was passed in 2009, and received bad press due to its controversial proposal. Requiring professors to release information such as, detailed course description, syllabi, curriculum vitae, attendance cost, etc. The law gets more negative attention when requirements ask for personal information such as salary and published works. When professors release in depth information as required, those that oppose can attack specific professors that may teach controversial topics. Professors are outraged at the fact that the school system and public mistrust them so. This is where they need to understand that the law is necessary to protect our kid’s future in education. The misconception that the public deserve to see how their taxes are being used, makes it seem like we don’t respect or trust our hardworking professors when that is not at all the case. It is only to help prevent factors that may make a profit out of our education system and harm our kid’s