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