Paul Theobald and Hibajene Shandomo's article reflects on the educational projects the United States has participated in during recent times, as well as during the 1900s. The piece compares and contrasts present education to that of during the founding years of our country. Theobald and Shandomo describe how the struggle between the older agrarian worldview and the emerging
industrial worldview have unfolded in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, as the age-old traditions began melting with the new.
Scholars today have been able to place a value on the importance of depending on our roots in order to better education. After all, you have to have something to start from right? I get the feeling many times that teachers and professors have a hard time with how exactly to present the information on the subject they are teaching. Personally, I favor a more one-on-one approach and feel that if a professor shows a true passion for the subject that I myself will find that I am eager to learn more and master the subject. The article exposed that issues with education have to do with less quality teaching and how economic distribution comes into affect.
I feel that the strive to gain knowledge and to be successful by way of earning an education is a privilege and something an individual must personally wish to attain. As American citizens, we are fortunate enough to be able to have the opportunities we have as many of those in less-developed countries do not have the same possibilities we do. As the authors state, in order for education to prosper, culture and the economy must both be up to par -- I certainly agree with this as without a standard foundation to base the knowledge around, as well as no funds, there would be very little to work with.
