When it comes to the Education System, everyone can agree on one thing. It needs to be changed. There have been many scholars that have written on the failures of the education system, and what should be done to change it but nothing has been done. Could this be because Universities don’t truly care about the education of the students? If colleges focused more on the students than on the money, students would be forced to attend a university for the sole purpose of education. Rather than the student activities.
Colleges today are being ran like a business, and the students are the consumers. Instead of colleges trying to attract students by the education the school has to offer, they sell them on everything the facility has to offer, such …show more content…
They believe everyone deserves a medal and that is not necessarily correct. If you try really hard to accomplish something and you fail, that means you need to try harder next time. In colleges today, grades are being inflated so that almost everyone passes. Paul Hollander speaks on the topic of grade inflation. In his essay, “Long term cultural trends and the problem of higher education in the United States” he explains why teachers are starting to inflate grades he says, “If most students get A’s and B’s the playing field is leveled, nobody is stigmatized, nobody's self-esteem suffers, no spurious distinctions are acknowledged, nobody is declared a loser or winner.” (Hollander 87) So now, not only do we have schools longing for students to attend their college for all the wrong reasons, we have the educators themselves giving false …show more content…
“Paulo Freire’s work has influenced people working in education, community development, community health and many other fields.” (Micheletti 2010) Paulo Freire’s essay “The Banking Concept of Education” from his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed written in 1993, tells us that the student-teacher relationship is more like an oppressive relationship than anything else. He does not think that students can learn in that kind of atmosphere. When Students attend college, they are looked at as if they know nothing. They are supposed so solely depend on what the teacher says. “Stephen McCloskey is an author who wrote the essay, “Are we changing the World? Reflections on Development Education, Activism and Social Change.” He agrees with Freire on many topics. McCloskey was listing a group of ideas to change our education system. One of those was, The pedagogical approach. “Is the teacher willing to facilitate a dialogical exchange with the learner in which all experience is valid? Or is the approach one of ‘banking’ or depositing knowledge in the head of the learner?” (McCloskey 127) This coincides with Paulo Freire’s ideas about communication being the key to success in the Student-Teacher relationship to help develop critical
Colleges today are being ran like a business, and the students are the consumers. Instead of colleges trying to attract students by the education the school has to offer, they sell them on everything the facility has to offer, such …show more content…
They believe everyone deserves a medal and that is not necessarily correct. If you try really hard to accomplish something and you fail, that means you need to try harder next time. In colleges today, grades are being inflated so that almost everyone passes. Paul Hollander speaks on the topic of grade inflation. In his essay, “Long term cultural trends and the problem of higher education in the United States” he explains why teachers are starting to inflate grades he says, “If most students get A’s and B’s the playing field is leveled, nobody is stigmatized, nobody's self-esteem suffers, no spurious distinctions are acknowledged, nobody is declared a loser or winner.” (Hollander 87) So now, not only do we have schools longing for students to attend their college for all the wrong reasons, we have the educators themselves giving false …show more content…
“Paulo Freire’s work has influenced people working in education, community development, community health and many other fields.” (Micheletti 2010) Paulo Freire’s essay “The Banking Concept of Education” from his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed written in 1993, tells us that the student-teacher relationship is more like an oppressive relationship than anything else. He does not think that students can learn in that kind of atmosphere. When Students attend college, they are looked at as if they know nothing. They are supposed so solely depend on what the teacher says. “Stephen McCloskey is an author who wrote the essay, “Are we changing the World? Reflections on Development Education, Activism and Social Change.” He agrees with Freire on many topics. McCloskey was listing a group of ideas to change our education system. One of those was, The pedagogical approach. “Is the teacher willing to facilitate a dialogical exchange with the learner in which all experience is valid? Or is the approach one of ‘banking’ or depositing knowledge in the head of the learner?” (McCloskey 127) This coincides with Paulo Freire’s ideas about communication being the key to success in the Student-Teacher relationship to help develop critical