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Danielle Allen's "What is Education For"

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Danielle Allen's "What is Education For"

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As education may be best known as the things learned during school and universities, it is important to understand that education also refers to a person's character development.

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The vocational aspect of education says that the purpose of education is for students and scholars to educate themselves in hopes of achieving jobs and occupations

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Allen describes equality as a major purpose that education has to offer. Essentially, equality is the overarching theme and many topics discussed could be under the topic of equality. Education should not be a catalyst to one's individual career and character development, but rather work as a unionized driving force so that everybody may have an equal opportunity in life and education.

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While a vast amount of people acquire different and unique opinions about either political or non-political ideas, society is diverse. Regardless of race, sex, gender, etc, it is important that we understand each other and to create equal opportunities in all aspects

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In terms of equality within the economic field of the world, Allen describes how society nowadays is to fixated upon the vocational goal and financial advantage that one can take over another. However, society should work as a whole, individually, each creating equal economic opportunities for each other through education.

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Allen enforces the idea early on in the article that the political system of education and the world are the crux of education. "If political choices determine the rules that shape distributive patterns, it makes sense to focus first on political, not economic, equality" (11).

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This emphasizes the idea of becoming prepared and well around educated to engage in society.

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Access to Representation is crucial to education and this is something that education offers as well. Representation requires not only knowledge and education within the democracy, but also confidence that can be derived from certain skills such as critical thinking.

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As technology advances day by day, it is important to realize and not put down the fact that the majority of this generation and the world are influenced or becoming influenced by our devices. Being able to utilize education previously learnt to understand political news online is a major part of education in the modern world.

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"The Youth is the Future" "Youth is Power". These quotes are ubiquitous sayings that are true. While the youth holds the power of the future, it is important to education them in the right way. Educating the youth to participate in education is important in order to raise a generation of confident minded citizens that are willing to contribute to society.

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Building a community requires education not only in the social aspect, but with the help of economic and political education as well. A community is truly built when citizens acquire understanding of each other through education that they have learned throughout their lives.

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Upon being well educated and understanding that everybody should be granted the same equal opportunity in life regardless of one's traits will lead to a decrease in discrimination in the world. A decrease in discrimination will lead to a society that can share ideas more freely and become more democratically aware.

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A core part of education, in the US, is learning the Bill of Rights. The first amendment says that we have the freedom of speech and expression. The ability to freely express one's opinions not only allows that person to grow individually, but also a person's opinion influences another's opinion, which affects the society as a whole.

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Without discrimination or racism — depending upon the social education that one received — more jobs will be available to the underrepresented groups that may not have been able to be granted the occupation beforehand.

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Civic agency is the idea or act of actively participating in a society and contributing to shaping the community. According to Allen, “the ideal civic agent carries out disinterested deliberation, prophetic frame shifting, and fair fighting.” (Allen 4). The civic conception of education is the idea that the primary goal of education is to build one’s critical thinking and build that person into being active in a society.

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According to Allen, “we have lost sight of the ideal ordinary citizen”(Allen 5), but to her, the ideal ordinary citizen is one that is not a professional in all aspects of life or education, but rather one that has civic agency, which means involvement and contribution in society, participatory readiness, which is the preparation of democratic activity, and one that is “proud to be involved in politics.”(Allen 5)

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Funding decreased in 1957 due to the Soviet Launch of Sputnik, the first satellite, which “provoked a sense that the United States was falling behind in a Cold War scientific contest.”(2). Therefore, the US government prioritized funding for the sciences, specifically to compete in the Cold War.

Funding decreased in 1983 once again because of a report, A Nation at Risk, which evoked anxiety into the people of the US. It was said in this report that there was a greater demand for a stronger STEM education.

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System of Government in which the people are in power.

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"a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals." - Oxford Languages

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Allen claims that human development requires both S.T.E.M knowledge and humanities, but she says the modern world lacks a holistic approach.

Holistic Education is one that focuses on all aspects of an individual's life, not just education. Today, success if measured by education which leads to money, but Allen claims this is not the way to become a successful community.