Comparing E. D. Hirsch's Preface To Cultural Literacy

Education is a general sense of learning in which the knowledge of a group of people is transferred from one generation to the next through the process of teaching. Throughout the United states, education has always been a common concern for society for years. Educational reforms today face a lot of challenges including fragmented curriculums. In both Eugene Provenzos essay, “Hirsch’s Desire for a National Curriculum” and E.D. Hirsch’s essay, “Preface to cultural Literacy”, the previous authors debate whether or not a standardized curriculum is to be endorsed or not in the nation.
It is the responsibility of schools to encourage the shared information between teachers and their students considering the serious effects that educational reforms
It conveys the idea that educational reforms and its serious effects on the degree of literacy of the nation. Hirsch declares that education is a normal process applied to all children regardless of their foundations. “Rousseau’s conception of education as a process of natural development was an abstract generalization meant to apply to all children at any time or place: to French children of the twentieth century or to Japanese or American children of the twentieth century. He thought that a child’s intellectual and social skills would develop naturally without regard to the specific content of education.” (Hirsch 34.) The elaboration of educational reforms are so extensive do to the fact that they are very diverse. For instance, In Finland, children start elementary school in grade one and end in grade six. They get textbooks instead of notebooks while in Germany, children attend elementary school for four school years. The understanding of the world is taken from experience, and different backgrounds may vary from individual to individual and the way they perceive the world around them and how they gather information from their
Hirsch declares that failure of schools are not caused by school teachers, but because of their obligation to follow a national curriculum based on educational reforms. “Children from poor and illiterate homes tend to remain poor and illiterate is an unacceptable failure of our schools, one which has not occurred because of our teachers are inept, but chiefly because they are compelled to teach a fragmented curriculum based on faulty educational theories” (Hirsch 33). Literate culture has become the collective movement for social and economic trade, it is the only way to become a working citizen in the nation. It is necessary that all children are given the same advantages and opportunities through schooling. Education has to be extensive and intensive allowing students to explore multiple areas of