Education For A Lifestyle Argumentative Essays Example

In response to Nodding’s argument that in general, the curriculum that people use to become educated these days has been with us for hundreds of years, I have to disagree. We do not know what kind of basics people learned and if a true semi-organized school setting, even existed, though it is obvious that it was not organized in the same structure that schools are today as that is a given. Reading and language were likely basic curriculum for these previous centuries which Nodding speaks of but there are several other subjects that are considered general curriculum which is significantly different than it would have been that many years ago. Even today, mathematics is taught differently than it was half a century ago let alone multiple centuries ago. New core has developed and even now classrooms are set up to be focused more on standardized testing or paying the money and doing the work as a means of earning to get a piece of paper that says someone is qualified to complete brain surgery.
Another topic Nodding discussed was that the high school curriculum was designed to help get males ready to embark on their education. In this essence, he contradicted himself. He had just stated that the curriculum had stayed the same generally over several hundreds of years and then he goes to talk about how women had started working toward getting their education. Subjects that were taught over the course of a few hundred years certainly had to accommodate for the change in the increase of women who attended school beyond secondary school and had begun to attend colleges. There was such concern that women might give up on their maternal instinct and give men a run for their money. However, that is not even true as men actually make a lot more money than women do doing the same job in today’s society. Additionally, women are becoming the men that they were always told to marry. Women do not need an educated man behind them to have a successful and prosperous life. They can make their own money. In fact, while everyone was so concerned about whether or not women should continue their education, they started doing so while also embracing a 1950s housewife mentality, cooking, cleaning, and raising children, in addition to holding down jobs.
Education has significantly changed over the centuries, regardless of what Noddings says. He may believe the structure is basically still there. I completely disagree. Students are preparing more for tests rather than for real life. Part of this has to do with government policy. Now, all of those credible universities that were so prestigious to go to once upon a time, students would rather get mail-order degrees instead of doing their own work. Education has become lazy, but it is not on the educator’s behalf. It is actually on the behalf of students. Students care mostly about doing what they need to in order to make a big paycheck or to do what they think is considered being successful.