Should the School Curriculum Be Standardized for all?

The School Curriculum
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Week 1: Should the School Curriculum Be Standardized for all?
Assignment: Identifying Fallacious Arguments and Rhetorical Ploys.
Educational Expert Position
Yes: Mortimer J. Adler
No: John Holt
Summary of the Author’s Position:
Human beings have for the last 80 years fulfilled the principle obligation of equal educational opportunity for all but only in terms of quantity. Adler believes that now is the time that human beings should achieve and fulfil the obligation is qualitative terms by adopting a completely on-track school system where all learners are given the same kind of schooling at different levels of education (Adler, 1984). Adler warrants his claims to the argument that children have differences in their capacities to grasp information and learn as well as general difference in their environments and backgrounds. Therefore, in order to prevent these differences from escalating much in to the life of a child, essentially, Adler claims that there should a program or curriculum of pre-school preparation that runs for a period not exceeding two years.
Rhetorical Fallacies and Ploys Used by the Author:
Quotations and Rhetorical Ploys
Part 1: Quotations
1 “The uniform objectives of schooling should be three-fold. They should confront to three aspects of the common future to which all children are destined: (1) Our society provides all children ample opportunity for personal development. (2) All the children will become, when of age, full-fledged citizens with suffrage and other political responsibilities. (3) When they are grown, all (Certainly the most) of the children will engage in some form of work to earn a living” (Adler, 1984).
2 “In its final form, the Paideia Proposal will detail this required course of study, but I will summarize the curriculum here in its bare outline. It consists of three main columns of teaching and learning, running through the 12 years and progressing from simple to more complex” (Adler, 1984).
Part 2: Rhetorical Ploy
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