What is Education For?
Argumentative Essay: Joining the Conversation Fall 2023 Topic: What is education for? Overview (from syllabus) For your second writing project, you will respond to multiple assigned texts on a contemporary topic of interest. By synthesizing your understanding of these texts with your own experience, you will contribute to an ongoing conversation about a specific problem related to the broader topic. You will demonstrate an understanding of using sources and will practice, in particular, analysis, synthesis, summary, paraphrase, and the incorporation of quotations. Project Details Your second writing project invites you to develop an understanding of a question that has relevance for all of us in this class: what is education for? You will develop an understanding of this topic by reading and analyzing a range of sources that address this general question from a variety of perspectives. You will then synthesize your understanding of these sources as you define and take a position in response to a specific problem related to the general topic. Your argumentative essay will ultimately do the following: 1. Delineate a specific problem – informed by the texts we have considered together in class – related to education today; 2. Explain and analyze the intellectual conversation taking place in relation to the problem you have described; 3. Join the intellectual conversation you have outlined, citing and making connections between texts as interlocutors (definition!) as you develop your own interpretive position; 4. Indicate what new questions or challenges you have discovered through this writing-as-conversation process, which future interlocutors might do well to consid
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What is Education For?
Education is a very important topic around the world. Indeed, it plays a vital role for individuals in different countries and regions. The quality of education varies in different countries due to the distinction in economic development. As such, the outcomes and opportunities of education vary between regions. This sense of difference in education based on national literacy, economic development, and social status creates a great divide.
Education is highly polarized and can create a divide in different places. For example, in posh school districts, these educational institutions have state-of-the-art equipment and the best infrastructure. Learners in these schools are taught by the best teachers and have access to learning resources that they need in their classroom activities. On that note, these students are nurtured in various disciplines and careers since for them becoming a doctor, engineer, or architect is a matter of just choosing. Teachers in these schools have knowledge and skills to help learners acquire relevant knowledge and skills so that they can achieve their dream careers. In contrast, the situation is the opposite in the poor neighborhoods. Take my country, China, for example, with numerous mountainous elementary schools. These educational institutions do not have adequate resources and equipment. In reality, many of them have been left in a state of disrepair. When it comes to learning materials, many students are required to share only one book. To make matters worse, there is no Internet connection.
By comparing these two scenarios, it is evident that education inequality is a significant problem. Such kind of educational bias