EDUCATION EMPOWERS A PERSON
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Kids are the future of the world, and education allows us to teach them the things they need to be successful . However, there has been debate if education even allows them to be successful. Does education empower us? Or does it stifle personal growth? Questions like this should be asked to figure out if the education kids are receiving are allowing them to reach their maximum potential, or holding them back.
Kids are the future of the world, and education allows us to teach them the things they need to be successful . However, there has been debate if education even allows them to be successful. Does education empower us? Or does it stifle personal growth? Questions like this should be asked to figure out if the education kids are receiving are allowing them to reach their maximum potential, or holding them back.Horace Mann is a graduate of Brown University in 1819, where he pursued a career in law and politics, and eventually became president of the Massachusetts State Senate. But, he left the senate and became secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education due to his despise for the condition the stateâs public schools were in. Mann responds to the question, does education empower us? Or does it stifle personal growth? by stating education empowers us and creates equal opportunity amongst the social classes. Conversely, John Taylor Gatto answers by saying, the schooling people receive hurts a personâs success, and notâŚshow more contentâŚ
Kids are the future of the world, and education allows us to teach them the things they need to be successful . However, there has been debate if education even allows them to be successful. Does education empower us? Or does it stifle personal growth? Questions like this should be asked to figure out if the education kids are receiving are allowing them to reach their maximum potential, or holding them back.Horace Mann is a graduate of Brown University in 1819, where he pursued a career in law and politics, and eventually became president of the Massachusetts State Senate. But, he left the senate and became secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education due to his despise for the condition the stateâs public schools were in. Mann responds to the question, does education empower us? Or does it stifle personal growth? by stating education empowers us and creates equal opportunity amongst the social classes. Conversely, John Taylor Gatto answers by saying, the schooling people receive hurts a personâs success, and notâŚshow more contentâŚJohn Taylor Gattoâs thought on education differs from Mannâs idea that schooling is the source of success. Gatto believes schooling is unnecessary, and hinders the growth of kids. He states âWe have been taught in this country to think of âsuccessâ as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, âschooling,â but historically that isn 't true in either an intellectual or a financial senseâ ( 144). Gatto supports his statement by referring to well known Americans, such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, thatâwere not products of a school system, and not one of them was ever âgraduatedâ from a secondary school