Buy essay on A Classical Education and Its Benefits to Students

In the introduction, I think it will be appropriately to mention that the main topic of the writing is Classical education and its benefits to students. Detailed overview can allow getting the main ideas, advantages and disadvantages of a big amount of thoughts, facts and arguments. In conclusion, the inference let us summarize and sum up all the information we are going to discuss. Our core focus will be on the determining main standpoints of different important questions, which I am going to answer through the paper. The aim of the writing is to decide and prove if there are benefits from classical education and if it is needed to students (to make them learn better).

The main problems in the sphere of education

Every system has its mistakes, problems and defects, weakness and of course advantages. This part of the work is dedicated to the main problems of the educational system. Jonathan Kozol did his best when wrote the book “The shame of the nation”, where readers found a well argumentative text about problems in the system of education. Jonathan Kozol is the writer, educator and simply active person. His books are based on his own practice, experience and opinion. He has worked as a teacher first in a freedom school and later in a public elementary school. Kozol has visited 60 schools, in 30 school districts, in 11 states, before writing of “The shame of the nation”. It is good, because the problem of the system of education in the USA cannot be solved only by theoretical aspects. He exposes hypocrisy of our educational policy. As we know, when our country has become independent, our position was “separate but equal”.

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Is it actually today? What is really happening now? Kozol describes in his book, that acceptance of schools is separate but unequal, unfortunately. In the introduction, he notices: “No matter how complex the reasons that have brought us to the point at which we stand, we have, it seems, been traveling a long way to a place of ultimate surrender that does not look very different from the place where some of us began” (1995, pg 1).
The main problems in the sphere of education are segregation, separation in the urban schools from his point of view. In his book, we can find many forms and examples of segregation. It is said to be as if you have been put in a garage where, if they do not have room for something but are not sure if they should throw it out, they put it there where they do not need to think of it again. Kozol has specified the reasons, which resulted to this negative situation in these schools. One of them is insufficient financial support of urban schools and their students (mainly from a poor families and national minorities) in comparison with suburban schools, where material and technical base is developed and the parents of their students are more well-to-do. However, in urban schools the classrooms need repair, educational apartments are overcrowded. It is obvious, there are 20 students in classrooms is normal for the study of school programs.
Another serious problem, describing in “The shame of the nation”, is that the increasing emphasis on testing renders negative influence on the level of education in the schools for the poor and minorities. In these schools, they spend much trouble on preparation to the tests in mathematics and another mathematical disciplines and that is why such disciplines as history, geography, biology and another natural sciences are studied in a speed-up rate. I have many questions after reading this book. What is it? “Qui prodest”? It suddenly occurred to me, it is a racism hiding after the backs of our students. Why Afro-Americans, students from poor families, minorities must go to work in factory, become hairdressers, workers, seamstresses…, only because they have no money or they have another color of the skin? Our state, government and people must give them a chance, they don’t need something more. Nowadays, the shame of the nation is hypocritical policy of education and especially the people, who have a great influence in the sphere of education. My point of view is that who can change this unfair system – does not want, who wants – has no possibility. In conclusion, I would like saying that our educational system is in need of change. Consequently, tests are convenient, but it is not an index of student’s knowledge.