The intimacy of knowledge and higher education is vital, from the birth of civilization, men have valued the potency of academic literacy. There are very few topics that have an outstanding agreement from scholars concerning academia moreover the exposure from the media, as the influence between economics and educational environments. Lynda Barry and Brent Staple discourse in their works the prevalence of this influence and the development of expectations concerning education over time. Economics have had an exacerbating effect on the nation's educational atmosphere, especially concerning “lost” students and inflated grades.
In Lynda Barry’s article “ The Sanctuary of School”, the concernment of economy in education was presented as she depicted her experience as a child who found security in school in the face of parental negligence. The argument of the importance of the arts due to student dependence is prevalent through her work. This problem has come to be a normality , especially in urban schools whose students are the most vulnerable to cruel …show more content…
The true nature of education; of the receiving of knowledge that is now tainted by social expectations, seems to no longer be considered by Universities. It is undisclosed information that there have been situations where students have been given unfair grades due to system leniency. Effort is no longer rewarded, it is the dependency of money that is crutching institutions. In addition Brent Staple also broaches the problem of grade inflation, because of this dependency Universities have inflated grades in order to retain students. “ Individual professors inflate grades after consumer conscious administrators hound them into it.” These are the fruits when involving capital and education, when we as a society begin to attach expectations and force an element that is unalterable to
In Lynda Barry’s article “ The Sanctuary of School”, the concernment of economy in education was presented as she depicted her experience as a child who found security in school in the face of parental negligence. The argument of the importance of the arts due to student dependence is prevalent through her work. This problem has come to be a normality , especially in urban schools whose students are the most vulnerable to cruel …show more content…
The true nature of education; of the receiving of knowledge that is now tainted by social expectations, seems to no longer be considered by Universities. It is undisclosed information that there have been situations where students have been given unfair grades due to system leniency. Effort is no longer rewarded, it is the dependency of money that is crutching institutions. In addition Brent Staple also broaches the problem of grade inflation, because of this dependency Universities have inflated grades in order to retain students. “ Individual professors inflate grades after consumer conscious administrators hound them into it.” These are the fruits when involving capital and education, when we as a society begin to attach expectations and force an element that is unalterable to