Many adults today are exhilarated when their child graduates from high school and gets accepted into college. Former reporter and critic, William A. Henry III, has a very different outlook on colleges. William A. Henry III argues that within the concept of egalitarianism, we as The United States of America, have lowered the standards and have accepted too many “mediocres” into college. From Henry’s knowledge not everyone is ready for college. William Henry believes that if we cut the amount of students that get into college in half then it would be even harder for students to be accepted to college, decreasing the amount of colleges throughout the world. Benjamin R. Barber is the author of “Excerpt from ‘America Skips School,’” in which he
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Henry’s proposition, it only seems right to let the most savvy people go to college and no social political reasoning. After reading Benjamin R. Barber “Excerpt from ‘America Skips School’” you see the social political context that states that the education has to fit the society. When looking at Barber’s views you can see that if you were to cut the amount of students being accepted into college you are undoubtedly hurting the future of the American democracy. In the beginning of Benjamin R. Barber’s argument he exposes the hypocrisy of the older generation directed towards the younger generation. According to Barber the generation that Henry belongs to is full of an abundant amount of hypocrisy. The older generation that seems to criticize the younger generation are simply hypocrites because they are failing to realize that the children are just mimicking the things that they see the older generation do. In the middle of Barber’s article he gives a quiz to a group of forty-seven year olds and a group of seventeen year olds. His primary group was the forty-seven year olds, he was trying to prove the older generation really does know today’s pop culture as much as the younger generation does. According to Benjamin R. Barber, “our kids spend 900 hours a year in school and from 1,200 to 1,800 hours a year in front of the television set (336).” With this statistical fact it shows that children learn so much from the television. While Barber reveals …show more content…
There are many people that will blame the students. According to Benjamin Barber, “others turn on the kids themselves, so that at the same moment as we are transferring our responsibilities to the shoulders of the next generation, we are blaming them for our own generation’s most conspicuous failures (335).” Barber does not say that he thinks everyone should go to college but he does believe that everyone that aspires to further their education after high school should have the opportunity to attend college. Although many students only go to college to make more money they actually still learn important skills like critical thinking. The younger generation feeds off of the older generation. When the younger children see that the older generation does not actually care that much about education then they think that they are obligated to believe that education is not very important; even though education is among one of the most important things to have. According to Barber, “we have been nominally democratic for so long that we presume it is our natural condition rather that the product of persistent effort and tenacious responsibility (340).” Barber also states that, “we have decoupled rights from civic responsibilities and severed citizenship from education on the false assumption that citizens just happen (340).” While Henry
Henry’s proposition, it only seems right to let the most savvy people go to college and no social political reasoning. After reading Benjamin R. Barber “Excerpt from ‘America Skips School’” you see the social political context that states that the education has to fit the society. When looking at Barber’s views you can see that if you were to cut the amount of students being accepted into college you are undoubtedly hurting the future of the American democracy. In the beginning of Benjamin R. Barber’s argument he exposes the hypocrisy of the older generation directed towards the younger generation. According to Barber the generation that Henry belongs to is full of an abundant amount of hypocrisy. The older generation that seems to criticize the younger generation are simply hypocrites because they are failing to realize that the children are just mimicking the things that they see the older generation do. In the middle of Barber’s article he gives a quiz to a group of forty-seven year olds and a group of seventeen year olds. His primary group was the forty-seven year olds, he was trying to prove the older generation really does know today’s pop culture as much as the younger generation does. According to Benjamin R. Barber, “our kids spend 900 hours a year in school and from 1,200 to 1,800 hours a year in front of the television set (336).” With this statistical fact it shows that children learn so much from the television. While Barber reveals …show more content…
There are many people that will blame the students. According to Benjamin Barber, “others turn on the kids themselves, so that at the same moment as we are transferring our responsibilities to the shoulders of the next generation, we are blaming them for our own generation’s most conspicuous failures (335).” Barber does not say that he thinks everyone should go to college but he does believe that everyone that aspires to further their education after high school should have the opportunity to attend college. Although many students only go to college to make more money they actually still learn important skills like critical thinking. The younger generation feeds off of the older generation. When the younger children see that the older generation does not actually care that much about education then they think that they are obligated to believe that education is not very important; even though education is among one of the most important things to have. According to Barber, “we have been nominally democratic for so long that we presume it is our natural condition rather that the product of persistent effort and tenacious responsibility (340).” Barber also states that, “we have decoupled rights from civic responsibilities and severed citizenship from education on the false assumption that citizens just happen (340).” While Henry