Human capital is the collection of abilities, knowledge, skills and attributes that are enmeshed in individuals so as to create wealth. Presently, education has been working as a thorough evaluation and selection process to help produce the best human capital for all the relevant economic fields. On the other hand, African American children had been, in preceding decades, caught up in policies that had implications on their capability as future economic contributors.
According to Anderson (1988), education in African-American schools was designed to produce unskilled and semiskilled workers (p. 202). However, such features of education have faded in today’s schools. Most schools have promoted equal provision of knowledge without basing their selection on race ensuring labor produced from schools is in accordance to one’s capabilities.
Secondly, the General Educational board prejudiced against educating black children in secondary schools doubting their intellectual capability (Anderson, 1988, p.205). Conversely, such traits poor methods of selecting who to receive what education are not visible in the current education system. Recent schools undergo a very equal and transparent scientific selection process with the choice of the type of education to be provided to students in high school not based on faint policies but a scientific process (Spring, 2013, p. 266).
It is laughable to consider that African Americans were caught in a caste system that was as a result of various assumptions such as that some industrial occupations belonged to them (Anderson, 1988, p.231). More so, the few existing high schools were as a result of coaxing efforts by local leaders and few elites. Such traits are “extinct” in today’s schools with no such traits being visible. African-Americans consider that they are capable, able and willing to study and become future economic contributors without some vague assumptions and beliefs. This has improved the quality of human capital being produced by schools due to increased competition, fair scientific selection and provision of equal chances to everyone.
References
Anderson, J. D. (1988). The education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Spring, J. H. (2013). The American school : a global context: From the Puritans to the Obama administration.
