Education and Poverty
Exploring Poverty and Education
Education and poverty is a difficult subject to explore. Many views are held when it comes to the value of education for the underprivileged and whether or not it is the key to removing an individual from an impoverished condition. “The Social Animal”, a book by David Brooks, explores this subject of poverty and education through the life of one of his characters named Erica. Erica comes from an ethnic background, from a broken home, born from parents who did not receive higher educations, and can be considered an underprivileged child. Brooks focuses on the changes Erica goes through in her life from elementary school, all the way to adulthood, and highlights the fact that she was able to attend a prep school dedicated to giving impoverished children a chance at getting a college degree in hopes of changing the life of the student, as well as her families. People who come from low income families should be given the chance to receive a higher education so they can have a chance to break the poverty cycle by teaching them about self-control, discipline, organization and social communication.
Erica comes from an environment that generally has no hope for the future. Impoverished children tend to not have the same opportunities as children who grow up in middle class or upper class families. Research data shows (insert data from outside source eveidence). One could conclude that by not having a college degree can keep an individual away from upward mobility. The environment that a person comes from can play a major role in how an individual sees the world. If an individual comes from a positive home, full of attachment bonds, and social bonds developed through childhood, then that individual will tend to have a positive outlook on life. If a person comes from a broken home, with very few attachments to the world they grew up in, then in general a negative outlook on life is developed. Here is how the poverty cycle is
Education and poverty is a difficult subject to explore. Many views are held when it comes to the value of education for the underprivileged and whether or not it is the key to removing an individual from an impoverished condition. “The Social Animal”, a book by David Brooks, explores this subject of poverty and education through the life of one of his characters named Erica. Erica comes from an ethnic background, from a broken home, born from parents who did not receive higher educations, and can be considered an underprivileged child. Brooks focuses on the changes Erica goes through in her life from elementary school, all the way to adulthood, and highlights the fact that she was able to attend a prep school dedicated to giving impoverished children a chance at getting a college degree in hopes of changing the life of the student, as well as her families. People who come from low income families should be given the chance to receive a higher education so they can have a chance to break the poverty cycle by teaching them about self-control, discipline, organization and social communication.
Erica comes from an environment that generally has no hope for the future. Impoverished children tend to not have the same opportunities as children who grow up in middle class or upper class families. Research data shows (insert data from outside source eveidence). One could conclude that by not having a college degree can keep an individual away from upward mobility. The environment that a person comes from can play a major role in how an individual sees the world. If an individual comes from a positive home, full of attachment bonds, and social bonds developed through childhood, then that individual will tend to have a positive outlook on life. If a person comes from a broken home, with very few attachments to the world they grew up in, then in general a negative outlook on life is developed. Here is how the poverty cycle is