Week 2_ Xiao Zhang_Section 3

I once watched a video on YouTube. The video talks about how the form of education (on instructor and a bunch of students ) has remained unchanged for thousands of years already. I was truly amazed when the speaker in the video address that the essence of education is to inspire and encourage student to be the best themselves, which means that education should ensure everyone be diverse, who they are rather than make them all the same.

In the article The Untold History of Modern U.S. Education: The Founding Fathers Lee starts his topic by a quotation of Martin Luther King as a understatement to talk about the current educational problems in USA: funds problems, educational stress for both educators and students, and problems in the educational system. He mentions those great founders of modern US education and He talks about the purposes of modern education and how it is formed and what still not quite good about it. He then talks about the history of modern US education: what is included, how it evolved and what were included. In the end he talked about the education for the future, the education with the help of technology and customization, which is more helpful for students.

I learned more about the history of the modern US education by reading this article and come to understand that education should be a vehicle to find truth and therefore is not supposed to be filled with biases or event discrimination. And “Education for All” should be greatly encouraged and policies like this would definitely beneficial for Asian American too.

Questions: What is history of US education for Asian American? How does Asian American get involved in the reform of education?

References:
Jamie Lee (2014) The Untold History of Modern U.S. Education: The Founding Fathers

Martin Luther King Jr. Saw Three Evils in the World retrieved from: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/martin-luther-king-hungry-club-forum/552533/