Analysis Of Alfred Lubrano's Article The Shock Of Education

In Alfred Lubrano article, “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts,” he forms the idea that not every working class family see the value in higher educations. He makes the argument that a person’s likeliness to have problems with their family depends on the distance between the person’s education and their parents. He gives an example of him and his family as well as a couple others from people who experienced similar situations to his. He began by explaining the different experiences he and his father had at Columbia. He talks about how during dinner he wouldn’t talk about his studies, because no one wanted to hear about him mimicking his professors’ thoughts on race and politics. He also mentions how he would study by the kitchen dishwasher
In the conversation Finn makes the claim that working class children are essentially taught to obey and fill in blanks. He says that blue collar children are typically against getting a better education because they feel pressure and are told that gaining an education is unnecessary. When talking about the SATs Finn says, “In high school, my parents got me a tutor for the math part of the SATs… That sort of thing happens all the time in middle-class neighborhoods…Most kids I knew from the community were not taking the SATs, let alone worrying about their scores” (). While it seems the middle class children work harder to get better scores on the SATs compared to working class children it’s not completely true. Many times children from the working class aren’t able to afford extra SAT classes like those from the middle class. Also children from the working class aren’t able to afford to retake the test and get a better score like those in the middle class leaving the working class children to appear not to worry about their test