Hypocrisy Of American Education Essay

Learning is an aspect of nearly everyone’s life. In America, the basic high school education is available to whomever wants to put in the effort to pursue it. There is a slight problem; Benjamin Barber argues Americans as a whole do not care about education. The education system lacks funding and slowly falls apart. Additionally, students and most of America do not care about education. The citizens’ care of education is displayed by their lack of attention to it. Many students once completed with their education cease to care about the education of future students. Compared to other nations, America has fallen behind in education and, “the National Commission on Excellence in Education warned that America’s pedagogical inattention was putting …show more content…
Others that notice the lack of education in the education system sometimes blame the teachers …show more content…
The funding our government allows the schools in America is not enough for them all to educate the youth properly. “The children are on to this game. They know that if we really valued schooling we’d pay teachers what we pay stockbrokers; if we valued books, we’d spend a little something on the libraries so that adults could read.” The amount of attention and funding given to schools directly reflects the amount of care towards education. Children notice the amount of money and where it ends up, and they are drawn towards the money. They pursue money with their future careers and do not invest in the education of future generations. Some of those students end up dropping out to pursue money. “Dropping out is a national pastime, if by dropping out we mean giving up the precious things of the mind and the spirit in which American shows so little interest and for which it offers so little payback.” Young children yearn to feel normal and fit in. when they grow up they will feel the same way. They will follow the money and not invest in the future of