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Essay On Universal Education

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“I don’t want to go to school!” She exclaimed as her mother tried taking her out to the car where she would be taken to public school for the first time. Her mother had to pry her away from the house. Now she stands as a Junior looking back, thankful for the opportunities offered to her, and the mandatory schooling of all children K-12 in the United States. Education is not something that will be easily perfected, or in fact ever perfected. Universal education is the building block of society, without it there would be a greater difference in social classes, and ever increasing unrest in lower-income families.Yet education in the United States has come to a point that those looking to make a major impact for the betterment of society can turn their gaze elsewhere. Education is not the civil rights issue of our time because the universal education that Horace Mann envisioned has come to pass (157). Multitudinous numbers of citizens describe public education as “the civil rights issue of our time.” Yet education as it is, universal to all and paid for by the government through taxes, is a fulfillment of Mann’s vision of universal education (158). According to Antonio Alvarez in Out of My Hands, he was able to complete schooling even while being an undocumented immigrant …show more content…

Those seeking a good education are able to find it, and those longing for something more are able to work for it. Alvarez, even while being an illegal immigrant, obtained a college education. As well as Union City continuing to exist due to hard work and determination. There may be areas of education that still need work. Yet this fact will never change. With society forever changing, so too will changes need to be made to the most base of institutions as the learning place. The learning place which is, and will forever be, the paramount place to fight poverty and

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