Inequality In Education Inequality

Education inequality has been present throughout the years, discriminating between the minority student and its Caucasian counterpart. Education is an important factor to become successful now days. Although children of all backgrounds are provided access to education, the American education system still has a gap between the rich and poor. Students of the high class are granted with liberal education, where they can share their thoughts, opinions, and ask questions because the teachers encourage them to do so. But the lower class (minorities) are getting education in a mechanical method (banking)-where the teachers share their thoughts and opinions but do not encourage the student to participate. In the article “500 nation” When the student

Everyone should have the right to a good quality education. They should be taught to give their opinion of different ideas and express their feeling instead they are taught to follow the society rule. In the article “The pedagogy of the oppressed”, Paulo Freire talks about the relationship between the student and the teacher and how each of them play a different role in the educational system. The teacher 's role is to educate the students by making them copy what is on the board and memorizing, sometimes without understanding what it means because that’s what they are paid to do. On the other hand, the students have to listen to what the teachers say, copy what they write and memorize it without saying a word or asking any questions because the teachers are the only ones responsible for that. Writer and Activist James Baldwin says that “The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions… To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society.” Education should be fun for the people to learn more and encouraged to do better but it is not. They are forced to learn what society wants them to instead of letting them create new ideas and letting them do what they want to