Arthur Orola
Section AO3
“The Untold History of Modern US Education” provided an
incredible glimpse into the origin of our education system. Many would consider
education to be the key to living a good life in the future and obtaining a
well-paying job in a field that they enjoy and because of that, they hold
education in a very important light. On the outside, education is very
innocent, seeking to empower individuals with the ability to think logically
and critically and instilling the idea into people that they can achieve whatever
they want if they work hard and learn as much as they can. However, this
reading shed light on the truth of on why the educational system was created –
it was created in a way such that the creators have utmost influence over these
individuals and. The people that designed these institutions amassed large amounts
of wealth during the industrial revolution. People like J.P. Morgan and
Rockefeller were seeking to design an educational system that stopped
individuals from climbing into the ranks of the elite and as a result, the
system that many would think is there to encourage learning and free thought is
actually creating mind prisons and streamlining them to work in the steel mills
and factories.
Question - What does an education that truly encourages
upper mobility and free thinking even look like? Where would we even begin if
we were to change the current educational paradigm towards
something like that?
- Lee, J. (2014). The Untold History of Modern U.S. Education: The Founding Fathers. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
- K. (n.d.). What Does School Really Teach Children? Retrieved October 01, 2017, from http://www.knowledgeoftoday.org/2013/01/what-does-school-really-teach-children.html
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