The Importance Of Education In Democracy

Plato defines knowledge as finding beauty itself (P., & Reeve, C. D. 2004). The right to receive a proper basic education is free in the United States. It is the right of the child to attend school everyday, however after the age sixteen they are not forced to go anymore. There’s always the agreement about how proper is the public education provided to our children. Children in the United States go to school from about the ages of five till about the age of eighteen, in which they learn basic educational life skills. However, when it comes to education in politics the majority of the millennial’s, in the United States lack knowledge of politics. A millennial is a person reaching adulthood around the year 2000. Being that the United States is a democracy, members of the country fail to use …show more content…
The major reason why the millennial’s are not voting in local elections is, because they are uneducated in the proper way to vote. Dr. Brian Cannon (2016) provided a lecture on Gerry-manderring and the effects of it in the Virginia elections. Gerry-manderring is when a political figure running for office changes the voting lines in of the districts in their state for their benefit. Political Gerry-manderring is legal in the United States as long as it used for political reasons, if it is used racially it is considered illegal. In the lecture we were given examples in which political and racial Gerry-manderring is looked liked much the same thing. If a candidate knows they have half the people in district five and six they have the right to change the districts lines to create one district out of the two. Dr. Cannon (2016) works for One