Education In John Green's Is College Worth It

“When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I 'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that 's partly because education gave me good job opportunities, but it 's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.” This was the provocative saying and illuminating thought of John Green in his book: Is College worth It? Green’s perception of education is akin to mine especially when it comes to the belief that education helps one climb the ladder of opportunities, becomes a whole person - teaching individuals to earn a living as well as …show more content…
Althusser argued that the socialization role does not transmit shared values; instead it is part of an ideological state apparatus set up to create a sense of false consciousness. He accuses the functionalists of believing that capitalism is justified, natural and inevitable, and that alternatives are unfeasible, and leads to that acknowledgement of this inequality in the working class. Supporting Althusser is both Bowles and Gintis, champions of “correspondence theory,” who stipulates that education serves the needs of capitalism not the society by socializing children into the dominant ideology (the ruling class norms and values) leading to an obedient workforce. Althusser in his further critique of the functionalists postulates that the social norms and values are validated through formal and hidden curriculum. Conversely, the Functionalists rejects this Marxists view and vehemently agreed that education system performs a positive function of transmitting socially agreed norms and values know as the “Value Consensus”, to the future generations. This is achieved through both the “formal and hidden curriculum” and economic role popularly referred to as socialization or social control. Whilst the formal curriculum is just the national curriculum given by the state that contains time-table lessons and plans that students should undertake, the hidden curriculum teaches such moral lessons as the manners, reward and punishment system. Students are expected to conform to these moral lessons, obey authorities and imbue a sense of work ethic, like for example, students must ask to use the restroom, dress in certain manner, raise their hands to speak, limit their speech to the teacher and principal’s rules, and follow school rules as well as rules within each separate classroom. The internalization of