Chapter 9, focused on the importance of human capital.I agree with the claim that Horace Mann made,he thought that “public schooling would increase community wealth.”For the most part many public schools focused on the importance of preparing students for the job market.However, there are many afterschools job-readiness programs in New York City.According to a specific non-profit organization, there main goal is to teach high school students what they didn’t learn in the classroom.
As the text mentions, high schools began to “adopt vocatonal education programs.”This was one of my main concerns in high schools.I tried to understand why there were so many programs in the guidance counselors office, and each student was assigned to one.I always wanted to take classes that were in another major.However, it was mandatory to follow the cirriculum for being a Sport Medicine major.
Education was considered a democracy,which should help develop in each individuals own timing.With this in mind, the amount of knowledge intake by a student can both shape him/her and shape “the society toward ever nobler ends.”For many students like myself, we seek education after high school.However, we are sometimes unaware of the major we would like to pursue.Do you think, from personal experience high school in present days focus soley on shaping students for bettering themselves, and society?Does high school cirriculum provide students with the best education possible?Many students in high school are apart of organizations, and teams, we all know they receive good grades to prevent being dropped from a team?How does that help them, shape themselves for the better, or even society?
