http://iowastatedaily.com/opinion/article_6ccf2e4c-1664-11e1-a5dc-001cc4c002e0.html
In this article by Barry Snell, he talks about how the education of students today has been "compacted" or "condensed" so much that we aren't really learning anything. He says, "Two hundred years ago, if you wanted to be an engineer, you went to college, explored a liberal education until you felt you were educated, then you left school and got a job as an apprentice with a respected engineer." We're aren't really taking advantage of actually learning things nowadays. We're focusing on just going through the motions of life and eductions aren't going anywhere in the future.
Snell also says, "Citizenship is a duty, not a right, and fulfillment of that duty requires a classical liberal education." I think he has a point. Having the duty of being a citizen is important some how in everybodies lives whether or not they know it. Like he says its not a right. If we want to achieve success in that duty we have to go to school so we can learn what are the right things to do on the different paths we might take in our lives.
At the end of his article he states some questions ("Do you think you're being educated the way the founders envisioned future enlightened Americans to be, in order to maintain the Republic and ensure that America is forever the shining city on the hill? Or are you the unwitting victim of a corporate, consumer-driven, vocational-based, pseudo-education?") I honestly somethings think that I am being educated by decent people but sometimes I'm not quite sure why some teachers are teaching. For example, I'm a chemistry major and one of the teachers I had last year had a focus of doing mostly research but he was teaching this particular class that year. Biggest mistake ever. He was rude, didn't answer questions, and told the whole class we were going to fail. I had no intention of wanted to learn in the class.
However, my psych 101 class this semseter has 3 different teachers that each teach 5 weeks. We're on our third teacher now and he is a great teacher! He motivates us and he's respectful and asnwers questions
In this article by Barry Snell, he talks about how the education of students today has been "compacted" or "condensed" so much that we aren't really learning anything. He says, "Two hundred years ago, if you wanted to be an engineer, you went to college, explored a liberal education until you felt you were educated, then you left school and got a job as an apprentice with a respected engineer." We're aren't really taking advantage of actually learning things nowadays. We're focusing on just going through the motions of life and eductions aren't going anywhere in the future.
Snell also says, "Citizenship is a duty, not a right, and fulfillment of that duty requires a classical liberal education." I think he has a point. Having the duty of being a citizen is important some how in everybodies lives whether or not they know it. Like he says its not a right. If we want to achieve success in that duty we have to go to school so we can learn what are the right things to do on the different paths we might take in our lives.
At the end of his article he states some questions ("Do you think you're being educated the way the founders envisioned future enlightened Americans to be, in order to maintain the Republic and ensure that America is forever the shining city on the hill? Or are you the unwitting victim of a corporate, consumer-driven, vocational-based, pseudo-education?") I honestly somethings think that I am being educated by decent people but sometimes I'm not quite sure why some teachers are teaching. For example, I'm a chemistry major and one of the teachers I had last year had a focus of doing mostly research but he was teaching this particular class that year. Biggest mistake ever. He was rude, didn't answer questions, and told the whole class we were going to fail. I had no intention of wanted to learn in the class.
However, my psych 101 class this semseter has 3 different teachers that each teach 5 weeks. We're on our third teacher now and he is a great teacher! He motivates us and he's respectful and asnwers questions