Education Is Becoming And Marc Prensky's Purpose Of Education

Over this lesson my beliefs that education's purpose was to get you into a good college have been corrected. I now believe that the purpose of education is to make you the best person possible for society as a whole. Articles that I’ve read such as Marc Prensky's “The Goal of Education is Becoming” and MLK’s “The Purpose of Education” back up my claim. Prensky’s belief is “The real goal of education, and of school, is becoming—becoming a "good" person and becoming a more capable person than when you started. Learning is nothing but a means of accomplishing that goal, and it is dangerous to confuse the ends with the means”. (number. 3 the goal of education). If we are to agree with Prensky, as I do, then the goal of education is not to make good test takers and book learners …show more content…
We certainly don't expect them, by means of their education, to become what the Dalai Lama might call "good" people. Nor do we expect them to become good thinkers, actors, realtors, or particularly effective in our rapidly changing world, except, perhaps, in tiny and often outmoded ways”(number 9 the goal of education). This quote shows me that while the school believes they’re doing what’s right Pensky thinks they're going about it in all the wrong ways. While the schools are supplying “test takers” Pensky believes that society needs students trained to adjust and adapt to changing societal needs. The kind of students that Pensky promotes will be able to fit easier into a society. This quote also confirms my belief that education is aiming for the wrong kind of graduate, the type of graduate that feels entirely comfortable in the classroom in front of a test but at a disadvantage in real world skills.
Martin Luther King’s text “The Purpose of Education” has a lot of good quotes to support my beliefs as well. He supports my belief that education is about making a learning member of society many times . One of