Huffingtonpost.com really outdid itself with its recent article about higher level educationrecently. While there has been the pendulum effect of backlash geared towards college education and the high debt rates associated with it, Michael Roth of Huffingtonpost.com gave a fresh perspective:
“It would be hard to find an American figure more devoted to a broad, liberal education than the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. He argued that the health of a republic depends on the education of its citizens because only an educated citizenry can push back against the tyranny of the powerful. His “frenemy” John Adams maintained that citizens of all walks of life deserve to learn the principles of freedom…”
But to avoid an “only game in town” rhetorical device, Michael Roth gave voice to his opposition and addressed their claims that vocational schools should be more emphasized:
“Hoping to capitalize on the anxieties of parents and students, many today are calling for a more vocational style of learning. Unfortunately, demands for a more efficient, practical college education are likely to lead to the opposite: men and women who are trained for yesterday’s problems and yesterday’s jobs, men and women who have not reflected on their own lives in ways that allow them to tap into their capacities for innovation and for making meaning out of their experience. Under the guise of ‘practicality’ we are really hearing calls for conformity, calls for conventional thinking that will impoverish our economic, cultural and personal lives.”
With the economy coming back, with the spirit of July 4th within us, now is a better time than ever to rejoice at the American Promise: that education raises the ceiling on possibility. A great hope for our children and for us, who share in that hope.
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