Reflection #18

“In America, education has always been viewed as a vehicle for improving the society at large.” I totally agree with this statement. Education is the pathway into anything you want to achieve in society. The educated are what make up the most important parts of our society. If we did not have educated teachers and lawyers and doctors our society would be a downfall right about now. We have been taught that education is very important and we always try to pass that on to our children. Education is the only way to proper success in my opinion. We receive an education and then we are able to provide for our selves and out families. That is basically how society is built. We would not like a society filled with bums, illeterates, and uneducated people. We need scientists and doctors to improve our society. Thomas Jefferson was one that wanted education to be available to everyone of every social class. Education is universal and should be equal amongst everyone, seeing as society includes every class. If we take a walk through a neighborhood we can tell just by the looks of the houses and cars what type of education has been given. For example, we walk through a nice neighborhood with pretty house with beautiful gardens. We see a new mercedes parked in the front door. Usually these neighborhoods consist of members with better educations, therefore they can afford all of these nice things. On the other hand, we take a walk through the “ghetto” and we see the trashed houses and the gratifies on the wall. We see the homeless hanging by the corner. This shows the uneducated side of the city. Education is very important in the process of improving our society. We can not have a society that consists only of that uneducated side of the city because we would be headed no where. In the reading about the puritans it discusses education and how important the bible was to them. They believed that the bible was the most important part of the education system seeing as it was the only way to “purify” and perfect social living. This shows that even back then education was considered the door to fixing and modifying society in a positive way. So yes, I positively agree with the statement that education is the vehicle for improving society as a whole. Without education we would have nothing valuable in our society.