Students for a Democratic Society

The resounding protests of Thai students, fighting for democracy, echo throughout the newspaper headings of the past and present. The current pro-democratic protests continue the trend of constant flux in Thailand’s political system since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932 through the repeated reforms of constitutions since 1932, its struggle against the established norms of Thailand’s hierarchical values and attitudes towards the socio-economic system by the call for democracy, and the…

we can find an obvious parallel between two orations. Both orations addressed to their great ancestors who created the foundation of the countries. In Pericles’ version, he admired that his ancestors use their braveness to create this free and democratic polis. And in Lincoln’s version, President Lincoln, in the same way, praised the founding fathers create “a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” They both put emphasis on the…

meant to eradicate an American class system instead helped create a new one. James Conant, a former president of Harvard and the father of testing, believed that in the fifty years preceding 1940s the United States went from being a “classless, democratic society to one that was relentlessly falling under the control of a hereditary aristocracy” (Brusso 53). Finally, Jefferson’s dream of a natural aristocracy could be put into effect. Conant believed that the SAT would determine and then…

George argues that critical pedagogy enables students and society to actively practice principles of equality, liberty, and justice and is also known to be empowering, liberatory, radical or engaged pedagogy. Critical pedagogy overlaps with other pedagogies, such as feminism or cultural studies, but its “commitment to education for citizenship” defines it from the other practices” (78). Based on Freire’s work, critical pedagogy focuses on developing students to “define, analyze, and…

Amy Gutmann serves as the 8th president of the University of Pennsylvania, she wrote the book Democratic Education in 1987, which focuses on the theory of democratic education in the United States. In chapter six of Democratic Education “The Purpose of Higher Education,” Gutmann discusses academic freedom, autonomy of a university, utilitarianism, academic association, and the politics of government and university. Gutmann believes that higher education and the pursuit of higher education is not…

changing and developing into the society known today. As a relatively new nation, there were still many issues that were disagreed upon and needed reformation. Prior to these reform movements that impacted the entire country, American society, as a whole, was fairly primitive. Education was mostly found in private schools that could only be afforded by males in wealthier classes. Pursuing any form of higher education was very rare and accessible to a limited number of students. The Second Great…

Deborah Meier is considered a highly influential educator in modern society, as she implemented ideas into the classroom that were previously considered ‘radical’ by others. She believes that children are educators themselves, and that each child can learn from another; she believes in a democratic classroom, one that will mirror the way that life is played out in the real world, which in her case would be in American society; and she believes in play, and the importance of its’ role in child…

much more convincing. She thinks public school is a diverse and democratic institution which will not leave any child alone. “While that may be the way of the wolves on Wall Street, we public school teachers will not abandon the lambs in our charge.”(Stvenson, 6) She draw an analogy to describe some children in private school are doing so well on their academic, however, the students in public school maybe weaken than those students in private school, but public school teachers want to protect…

vote for the Democratic Party. My father and I believe that the middle class is a good “buffer” between the lower and the upper classes, which provides stability in the political sphere. Therefore, my political agents are typically found in my father’s beliefs and those of the Democratic Party. In essence, I will describe the formation of political opinion through the socialization process and the agents that have guided me towards a leftward leaning political view in the Democratic Party. The…

Advantages of socialism/communism can include equal pay rates between all members of the society, therefore lower class people can have the same pay as higher class and wealthier people, leading to a minimization in the gap between the rich and the poor. Another advantage can be free healthcare, this is due so that everyone receives the same…