The Importance Of Education In The Gilded Age

There are multiple reasons on why America is experiencing a second Gilded Age, but the epidemic of the educational systems is the most corrupted and is dragging America further into a Gilded Age. Public school is a tuition free education, that is available to everyone no matter your ethnic background or that's the goal. During the first Gilded Age not everyone was given the opportunity to receive education. Especially immigrants and those living in poverty, they were seen as useless because they wouldn't contribute to their process of corruption. Students nowadays are forced to wake up at an unreasonable time, go to and school around 7:30. DailyMail.co.uk states that a teenager’s brain is unable to function until 10:00 in the morning. Forcing students to show up at school early in the morning can result in depression. The school also has too many expectations for students. The teachers give hours of homework, want them to participate in afterschool activities, but also get the recommended nine hours of sleep. Students are forced into curriculum that they aren't interested in,
Students are expected to have all their work done in a certain period of time. In “Robber Barons and Rebels”, A journalist observer of the school stated “The unkindly spirit of the teacher is strikingly apparent; the pupils, being completely subjugated to her will, are silent and motionless, the spiritual atmosphere of the classroom is damp and chilly”( Zinn, 1999). The journalist provides a thorough observation on the classroom. The students are subjected to not talk unless spoken to, basically students are caged circus animals. The jobs such as doctors, lawyer, and business executives are the high end jobs teachers want students to reach for. Jobs that don’t require a lot of education are looked down upon, although they are very necessary. Schools force curriculum upon students, some in which will never be useful in everyday life. If failed the student is perceived as