Racial Tolerance In Education

In the life of every person education plays an important role because it improves the personality of a person and through the knowledge. So, in order to achieve the goals, any person should make a lot of effort. The academic performance of the students plays an important role in the hard process of learning. Based on people level of education, we can assume how much their level of tolerance will be. The research question that will be raised in this paper is if highly educated people are more likely to be more tolerant than people who are not educated. Perhaps we can find out that people do not have to be educated to be more tolerated. We expected that people with higher level of education will more likely have a higher level of tolerance. We view …show more content…
The problem lies in the fact that tolerance itself is poorly understood. The educational sphere defines it as an attitude, a way of being, while the social sphere takes a more bureaucratic, formal approach, defining it in terms of what behaviors, people, ideas/ beliefs, can or cannot be tolerated. In fact the later looks into morality and politics (Almond, 2010). According to article "Cohorts, Education, and the Evolution of Tolerance" performed by Smith, A. W., there were 11 surveys, which showed changes in all levels of racial tolerance, and also in upper and lower margins of the tolerance range which were influenced by cohort and level of education. The most racially biased part of the spectrum was varied by the higher education in the population, and the most racially tolerant stance was somewhat increased by "cohort replacement" (Smith, 1985). According to the Bobo and Licari (1988), Stouffer thought that tolerance can get higher over the years, the reason why he believes that is because the education has increased during this century. Stouffer was the first one who started researching that question and he examined and correlated education and levels of tolerance with the American population (Bobo & Licari,