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Jasmine Kennedy

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Perspectives on Narrative

February 8, 2020

1. Introduction

The current education system, at its core, is designed to reinforce hierarchy, status, and obedience in a free-thinking population. A majority of the problems humanity is plagued with including poverty, crime, and unemployment, babies out of wedlock, diseases, wars, ethnicity, racism, and climate change are part a consequence of lack in the education system. For humanity to progress and prosper as a whole, the current system must be broken down, and an order needs to introduce that reinforce equality, encourage wisdom and spiritual enlightenment.

i. Topic Context

Personal experience, why I decided to write about this and what I’m going to talk about: As an adult, I’m learning from mistakes that could have been prevented with knowledge. I’m looking around me, and many of my peers are experiencing the same thing. Debt, health problems due to poor eating habits, negative thinking, poverty, crime, just to name a few. A lot of what I learned in school wasn’t relatable, so over the years has been forgotten. I think there is knowledge that could be gained from school and not just memorizing and forgetting. Often, we hear what “employers are seeking”, not enough “what will you seek as an employer”, “making you more attractive to potential employers.”

For example, adopting teaching methods from more advances countries such as teaching another dominant language from elementary school all the way through high school. Spanish is almost as common language as English here so why not incorporate it into our education system? our country could reach significant success by raising bilingual citizens.

Thesis Statement

Although the education system has improved, there are still some changes I’d like to see. The education system still is a lot to be desired in the 21st century. Such as learning residual income, the ins and outs to taxes, why we pay them, who pays them and how much. The current system has inhibited the growth of our country by not adding life advancing courses such as finances so we know how to file taxes or the importance of our credit scores, health so we know the affects or positive and negative thinking and how eating habits affect our health, or teaching future instead of history so we less focus on the past and create better futures. These are changes I’d like to see in our education system. The education system should not promote inequality and status distinction like the current education system is doing, but the education system must encourage behaviors that bring positivity.

2. Body

A. Argument 1

Children’s social class is one of the vital indicators to judge their academic performance. For example: what is the difference and why is it different between schools in Compton vs Beverley Hills. Why graduates in high income neighborhoods see success faster than peers in that of lower income households.

Argument summary:

The current education system is promoting inequality by assessing high-class children’s and ignoring lower-class children’s when it comes to admission opportunities. Status hierarchy is an indicator to measure intelligence in the current education system.

Quotes from source and primary material:

“We find that large performance gaps exist between children in the lowest and highest socioeconomic-status (SES) quintiles and that these gaps have persisted from the 1998 cohort to the 2010 cohort.” (Weiss)

Transition:

The current education system needs improvement that it helps children’s to understand humanity instead of preferring material things and status differences.

B. Argument 2

Rising inequality in the current United States’ education system is pressing children’s abilities and competencies. For example:

Argument summary:

Researches have demonstrated that many predictors distinguish students in the educational system. It is a reality that schools are destroying creativities and pressing competencies. While the 21st century wants students to be creative because the world is becoming technologically advanced. Unequal opportunities in the US educational system leads to unequal employment opportunities.

Quotes from source and primary material:

Sir Ken Robinson said that instead of growing into creativity in school, we grow out of it. Students all over the world have had more years of schooling than they care to count. During this process, students are taught that making a mistake is a sin. We have planted in our students’ minds a picture of an entirely, carefully drawn life (Dalile).

Transition:

Today the world is technologically advancing, and those with creative minds can create technologies and bring more advancements. But I think the current educations system where there is no appreciation for poor creative students but a rich dull student.

C. Argument 3

The education system completely needs to be replaced. The education system should be according to the requirement of growing world instead of relying on the traditional education system. For example: I remember suffering through courses such as geometry. To this day they are still methods I don’t comprehend. Something I also struggle with are credit scores, but only one of those categories will help me reach success. Had I been taught the ins and outs to credit scores instead of geometry I could be closer to success today.

Argument summary:

The new education system should promote creativity out of boundaries. The current system makes our students feel less and discouraged. Poor educational curriculum putt burden on minds of students, that never let them think out of the box. Our current educational system causing poor cognitive growth among children’s.

Quotes from source and primary material:

“School is the foremost fountain of knowledge children are exposed to. It gives a chance for them to acquire knowledge in various fields of education such as people, literature, history, mathematics, politics, and other numerous subjects.” (Sharma)

III. Conclusion

For humans to be successful as a whole the current education system needs to be broken. There are numerous flaws in the current education system that are affecting children’s and their future. The system is promoting inequality and status hierarchy instead of humanity and wisdom. The new system should promote creativity and teach students to think out of the box.

Summary and final analysis of findings:

Along with the changing world, its requirements from the education system are also changing. We need a system that goes fit with the requirements of the 21st century. Does the current education system go well with the improvements and advancement we are adapting? Is our education system promoting creativity? Are education and intelligence promoting equality? No, our education system is not in the direction it has to be. Findings and researches reveal that we strictly need to promote a new education system and break the present one if we really want to eliminate poverty, unemployment and other social evils.

Work Cited Dalile, Line. "How Schools Are Killing Creativity." HUFFPOST (2012). https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-dictator-racing-to-nowh_b_1409138. Sharma, Deepika. "The importance of school education in child development." Educational World (2019). https://www.educationworld.in/the-importance-of-school-education-in-child-development/. Weiss, Emma García and Elaine. "Education inequalities at the school starting gate." Economic Policy Institute (2017). https://www.epi.org/publication/education-inequalities-at-the-school-starting-gate/.