Richard Rorty Education And As Individualism Summary

How should education be taught to the upcoming generations? Richard Rorty’s article, Education as Socialization and as Individualism, explores the two radically different and opposing views on this matter: the political right’s view and the political left’s view. The political right believes that education should be taught through more of a socialization method. The political left, however, strongly holds that education should take a more individualistic route. On the right, it is considered that if one uses reason in education, that it will help battle the temptations of one’s passions or sins, which in turn will lead to freedom. This is method is disapproved of by the left. They believe that breaking free from society’s conventions and prejudices is the correct path to obtaining freedom, not reason, and that this is what should be taught in schools instead.
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Upon entering college with system, statistics show that the majority children raised in a Christian home leave the Christian faith. They tend to be become more liberal in their thinking and this causes Christian sons and daughters to abandon Christianity. Thus, as a Christian it does not exactly sit quiet right to accept some aspects of the political left’s method.
On the other hand, sons and daughters raised up in Christian homes that leave the faith upon going through college cannot be completely blamed on the political left’s individualism system. The political right’s socialization method can sometimes also be at fault. It the right’s method is not taught well and instilled in the minds and hearts of these sons and daughters before they go off to college, it is much easier for them to abandon the faith. Without a good, biblical foundation, what was built up in the right’s system will crumble, at least in part if not in