American Dream And Education Essay

The American Dream is the equil ability to achieve wealth if one works hard enough. In James Truslow Adams book The Epic of America he says that the American Dream is a dream of a richer fuller land where everyone has an equal opportunity according to their achievements. Today some people are born with more wealth than others they inherit from their elders thus making them start from a different point than others. These people have a head start compared to people of the lower class, they get into better schools and have the money necessary to help them succeed in life. According to Jack Cafferty “The study finds that while 84% of Americans have higher incomes than their parents did at the same age, those born at the top and bottom of the income
Children who have parents that don't provide a good influence tend to pass on their bad habits which reflect in school work or their need to achieve in life. In some cases there are schools that don't teach children what they need to learn. Sam Blumenfield says “Despite universal compulsory attendance, we have millions of minority youngsters who spent years in public schools and were never taught to read or write and are relegated to lives of poverty in the inner cities.” How can we expect children to succeed and achieve their dream if they can't read or write? The only way they could achieve there dream is through hard work in school to help get them jobs one day. Kids Children that have these bad habits develop them from somewhere whether it be there parents or an elder and how they do in school affects their whole life. So these kids with bad living conditions dont have the same chance of there dream compared to kids born with wealth. The children with wealth have better schooling, and living conditions and their parents expect the best from them because they want their children to achieve what everything they