Lack Of American Education Essay

Although the american education is supposed to keep the younger generations out of the dark and it is failing to do so. we as students are being supplied with knowledge but, the intellect needed to apply such knowledge in not being taught, we are simply knowledgeable. the american education has lost it’s spark and now does nothing more then degrade and emotionally drain those who would otherwise be extremely eager to learn. what made us ecstatic has now dulled and expects us to comply. those of us who are not neurotypical are weeded out and treated as hopeless and dysfunctional; this is not true. we are hopeless yes but, not for the reason you may think. we are hopeless because the education we are receiving is flawed, every specimen of mankind
the reason we are not taught actual skills, the reason our natural creativity is not being embellished on is because america doesn’t profit from it. students like myself, with a passion for art and music are unwillingly geared toward other career options. in other words a child with musical or artistic genius will be forced into an education that does not apply to them because of the value capitalism has placed on a dollar. we are blissfully ignorant batteries for the many making machine that is big corporations. this isn’t who we are, we are not mechanical, we are organic.

Page 87 of “the language of composition” textbook explains to the reader that education is a concept that is difficult to understand, which provides evidence that there is more than enough room for error. the question posed in this text is “what is education?” and “what makes one educated?”. these questions are nearly impossible to define because the human mind is far more complicated to the point where any everyday word become difficult to define. if the word education can’t be defined and is referred to as a concept then why are we being forced to follow a plan that is ran why an unexplained