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Education System Fosters A Culture Of Conformity By Claudia Feldman Summary

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Students spend most of their lives in an institution that hinders creativity and promotes mass assimilation. School districts nor teachers actually care about preparing students for the future; they are intentionally teaching in a minimalist way in order to keep the system from being broken. In the article “Education System Fosters a Culture of Conformity, Compliance” by, Claudia Feldman, she dives into how the education system is failing the students of today. She then uses metaphors and facts to back up her claims. In the article “Standardized Tests for Everyone? In the Internet age, That’s the Wrong Answer”, written by Cathy Davidson, she expounds upon Feldman’s ideas that the educational system is killing creativity and promoting conformity. Unlike Feldman, Davidson places most of the blame specifically on standardize testing. W. E. B. Du Bois wrote “Strivings of the Negro People”, this personal …show more content…

Du Bois vividly explains how hard it was being black and how he would take his mistreatment, but eventually he grew tired of it and demanded his equality. Even though it may not seem like it all three of these articles correlate. Feldman and Davidson wrote about the place where conformity is birthed, school, and Du Bois wrote about where conformity is active, society. According to Feldman, Davidson, and Du Bois the education system needs to be reconstructed and it fosters an environment where conformity flourishes. Reconstructing the education system seems like an impossible task, yet people have already done it. There are new schools that no longer require the students to address their teachers by ones’ last name, there is not set curriculum for the teachers to follow, and some schools have gotten away from standardize testing. People are always saying how the education system has failed the students of today and how there needs to be a

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