Education is Equality

 

Education Is Equality


    Upon reading the entirety of "The Common School," I ended up learning a lot about education that truly did fascinate me. The upwards battle that equal education has always been something that is taught over and over in schools, but that is usually in regards to the racial reasons as to why some opportunities were not equal. However, this first part shed a lot of light upon how difficult it was for people to get simple education to the point where it is today. Even back during the earliest days of America or any country, education had the battle of funding and accessibility. Unless someone was of a higher class, getting a well paying or fulfilling education was impossible. People understood this oversight and made it this mission to pursue and eventually come to have education be the importance it now has today. 
    
    Horace Mann was someone that I had gained a lot of appreciation and respect for throughout the entire piece of literature. While many people pulled their weight in making education so easily accessible to the public, it was Mann that truly made me appreciate the efforts. "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the equalizer of the conditions in men, the great balance wheel of the social machinery." (pg. 29). Mann had a great understanding in regards to the importance education would have on the greater purpose of the future. The meaning it would have and all those that would come to receive it and how it would help place all those that receive it on an equal playing ground. Education should not discriminate or inhibit those that sought it. It should be something the helps push society forward and make all men and women just as capable as one another. "Common schools," the equivalent of public schools, would be accessible to both rich and poor children alike. It should offer the same benefits to both so that the world can truly begin to improve. 
    Thomas Jefferson also shared many similar views to that of Mann, with him being someone that tried very hard to have the common people help assist in making this dream a reality. Both of these men have my utmost respect and truly put into perspective how important the battle to gain a proper education is, an education that all can receive and truly play into. The text painted the entire situation into perspective and how far we have come as a society, despite all of the flaws education may continue to have. It will forever evolve and it will forever improve.

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