The Public Education Controversy

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet – Aristotle. Education is the wise, hopeful and respectful development of learning undertaken in the belief that everyone should have the chance to share in life. When you think of education, you think of places like schools or colleges that teach and tutor students in order to prepare them for the future. We notice that education is a concept almost everyone would agree is a universal good, also one that is plagued by seemingly endless controversy because education is said to be a powerful opportunity that you can either build from, or destroy all at once, it’s your choice. Education is built upon years of hard work, surpassing the all difficulties along the way. When in doubt you
When you build from an education you can either decide what to learn from it, or completely loose it at all which is one of the leading causes to controversy towards this topic. We live in an era where there’s an abundance amount of opportunities available that people actually start to forget that they exist and they choose to not take advantage of it. It's like when students in a high school are given free public education, where they decide what to learn and take from it in order to grow and expand plans for the future careers of the new generation. But most scholars today are blind and don't see the obvious purpose for this type of education, most students in their high school years waste their time not caring whether they've done their class work for the day or not, they've rather socialize in the hallways with others students just like them. I'll give you a certain point in my life where I asked my parents about education and why is it important. They gave me a simple response and told me “it's the key to every unlocked door you could have ever imagined of and with that key holds the power of your education to be able to open that door.” It’s back when my parents were younger that you had to actually pay for a proper education, not many people where they lived had
There are students that are hard workers that try their very best each and every day until they've accomplished their goals and expectations in life, there are those lazy but smart students who are procrastinators that eventually get that 15 page essay done the night before it was due, then there are those students who are lazy and expect others to do their work for them, instead of cramming for than mid-term sociology exam they would rather party on with their next door sorority friends take a couple drinks or two and fail. So how are students that do take their education seriously and don’t party every night differ to those who don’t try their best in school when everything the good students do doesn’t matter because they turn out to have the same outcomes? In William Deresiewicz's "Don't Send Your Kids to the Ivy League," Dersiewicz makes a critique of the nation's wealthiest and revered educational institutions that flailed the meritocracy they supposedly represent. He explains how an elite education can lead to a cycle of grandiosity and depression. These students that Deresiewicz explains are "Super People," the stereotypical ultra-high-achieving elite college students of today (Deresiewicz 1). This "race” since childhood that Deresiewicz perceives are very driven and talented students that are anxious, timid, and have a "stunted sense of purpose," these students are trapped in a