Wake up!!
The dream of a publicly funded, curiosity sparking, creative, learning experience is dying. Replaced by a system bent on making money, and foisting students off onto corporations as employees. The process starts in Middle School, gets more defined in High School before coming to a crescendo in college. (Stanley Fish; “The value of education made literal”, Rebeckah Nathan “Lessons from my freshman year”, Theodore Sizer “What High School is”. Our very identities hang in the balance. Caught in between pointless bureaucrats, and money hungry university heads. There no longer is time for kids to be kids, no time for parents to raise their children. Immediately starting School it is increasingly targeted to the finding ones …show more content…
I am sure that after reading these articles that this argument has been going on for decades. Other Experts must have spoken out about this long before now. After all Theodore Sizer wrote his article in the eighties and it still is relevant today. Sizers description of a typical day of High School matched mine own experience in High School. Sizers arguments are still valid today. This stuff is still going on from then. The questions I have are; why hasn’t anyone done anything about this issue? My next question is; how does a generation change what is broken and fix the system? Also, does the system even need to be …show more content…
Like in Nathans’ article Fish is making the same argument about Colleges only being in it for the profit. Fish goes deeper in saying that the arts are important and that it is important for colleges to be a public institution. Rather than privatizing everything and making everyone pay a hefty premium for Education. Fish goes on to explain that if this privatization take full effect then society and Students will lose a valuable piece of themselves in the
The dream of a publicly funded, curiosity sparking, creative, learning experience is dying. Replaced by a system bent on making money, and foisting students off onto corporations as employees. The process starts in Middle School, gets more defined in High School before coming to a crescendo in college. (Stanley Fish; “The value of education made literal”, Rebeckah Nathan “Lessons from my freshman year”, Theodore Sizer “What High School is”. Our very identities hang in the balance. Caught in between pointless bureaucrats, and money hungry university heads. There no longer is time for kids to be kids, no time for parents to raise their children. Immediately starting School it is increasingly targeted to the finding ones …show more content…
I am sure that after reading these articles that this argument has been going on for decades. Other Experts must have spoken out about this long before now. After all Theodore Sizer wrote his article in the eighties and it still is relevant today. Sizers description of a typical day of High School matched mine own experience in High School. Sizers arguments are still valid today. This stuff is still going on from then. The questions I have are; why hasn’t anyone done anything about this issue? My next question is; how does a generation change what is broken and fix the system? Also, does the system even need to be …show more content…
Like in Nathans’ article Fish is making the same argument about Colleges only being in it for the profit. Fish goes deeper in saying that the arts are important and that it is important for colleges to be a public institution. Rather than privatizing everything and making everyone pay a hefty premium for Education. Fish goes on to explain that if this privatization take full effect then society and Students will lose a valuable piece of themselves in the