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To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: Our Broken Education System

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Gideon A. Clendenen

Sherman

English 9

16 March 2023

Our broken education system As the age old saying goes “We don't need no education We dont need no thought control.” This was a quote made by lead vocalist Syd Bratt of Pink Floyd. Everybody knows that education is certainly important, and that is a necessary part of a civilization . After all, the phrase “We don’t need no education” is grammatically incorrect. The core message of this essay is not that education should be abolished, but that it should change. Atticus from To Kill A Mockingbird said that “The people who run public education promote the stupid and the idle along with the industrious – because all men are created equal, educators will …show more content…

Each state had its own specific way of approaching education. There were no benchmarks that would dictate what students were shown which resulted in each state having varied curricula leading to a dissimilar learning experience among students from different backgrounds and regions and no guarantee that they were receiving the education they deserve.

One thing that is always brought up when discussing the past in our schools is the use of physical punishment being used as a sort of punishment. It was not at all uncommon for teachers to spank, use rulers, and generally beat children to discipline students. It doesn't take a very intelligent individual to see how this was harmful to children, often leaving physiological wounds on top of the physical ones. This idea of using violence against students was often debated even then.

One issue that was common in the early 1920s was the paucity of educational opportunities for women. Women were frequently barred from pursuing any type of higher education. Even in the off chance that a woman were able to obtain a higher level of degree the amount of jobs that were available were still very …show more content…

One of the greatest examples of this is the textbooks that are shown that teach that typically people of african descent are inferior and promote these racist ideas that are outdated even for the 1930s. This leaves the population of maycomb filled with incompetent morons that are completely incapable of critical thinking leaving them vulnerable to propaganda. The best example of this being that there was an actual lynch mob formed going against those who were in support of Tom

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