On the Basis of Objectivity in Education
Free and public education has ever been the cradle of American liberties, if not the largest component to a free minded and intelligent community. It is the basis of fostering our strong federal democratic republic. However, our education system has been slowly misconstrued. Gerald Graff in his piece “Other Voices, Other Rooms” shows the rather consistent agenda and bias many teachers and professors let unknowingly into their classroom. James Loewen in his book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, details the gaslit history textbooks that are filled to the brim with an overt patriotic prerogative to the detriment of objective information. It becomes more obvious that textbooks and school are too often plagued by the …show more content…
Graff details this unfortunate circumstance as nearly unintelligible as it nothing can be seen and understood by itself; all academia needs to be seen in a broader picture and in relation to other academia (340). This basis of intellectual discourse is undermined by the belligerent overstating rhetoric that has invaded nearly every educational system. How can one learn and understand if in one course the professor or teacher talks about a successful and benign capitalist society and the other talks about the same thing as a corrupt exploitation of the poor. Each individual course may be so tailored heavily to the views of the teacher that the enlightenment of the course is tainted irrevocably. Or the course may portray just one view without any other contrary views which leaves a disjointed impression upon the student 's mind. Graff describes this ugly phenomenon like a baseball game, however you only see one part of the game at a time, one by one, and you have to make sense of the mess by yourself
Free and public education has ever been the cradle of American liberties, if not the largest component to a free minded and intelligent community. It is the basis of fostering our strong federal democratic republic. However, our education system has been slowly misconstrued. Gerald Graff in his piece “Other Voices, Other Rooms” shows the rather consistent agenda and bias many teachers and professors let unknowingly into their classroom. James Loewen in his book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, details the gaslit history textbooks that are filled to the brim with an overt patriotic prerogative to the detriment of objective information. It becomes more obvious that textbooks and school are too often plagued by the …show more content…
Graff details this unfortunate circumstance as nearly unintelligible as it nothing can be seen and understood by itself; all academia needs to be seen in a broader picture and in relation to other academia (340). This basis of intellectual discourse is undermined by the belligerent overstating rhetoric that has invaded nearly every educational system. How can one learn and understand if in one course the professor or teacher talks about a successful and benign capitalist society and the other talks about the same thing as a corrupt exploitation of the poor. Each individual course may be so tailored heavily to the views of the teacher that the enlightenment of the course is tainted irrevocably. Or the course may portray just one view without any other contrary views which leaves a disjointed impression upon the student 's mind. Graff describes this ugly phenomenon like a baseball game, however you only see one part of the game at a time, one by one, and you have to make sense of the mess by yourself