Higher Education Is More Than A Corporate Logo Analysis

Du Bois/ Giroux Extra Credit Based on both of the readings “The Talented Tenth” (1903) and “Higher Education is more than a Corporate Logo” I understand that the point of higher education or of education in general is not to simply train students with the necessary skills to find employment. But to guide them to develop critical thinking skills that will guide them through real life experiences. For example, during the first day of lecture we were asked what it meant to be a student, and Professor Juge explained, that being a student is actually engaging with the course material, to apply the events of life outside a classroom, personal experience, and analyze the different perspective of those around us to form our own opinions. Being accepted to a top

This for me is not surprising information, it is something I have heard from a business law professor before. And I must admit, it is a privilege to be attending college. If my parents would have made the decision to stay Mexico to raise me and my sisters, chances are my education would have only gone as far as primary school. Mainly due to the high cost of being enrolled and the lack of local public schools. Being part of an institution of higher learning has given me advantages such as learning English as a second language, to experience and learn the American culture, and to attend school and continue to learn. I believe education should be a right to the public not only in the United States, but to the rest of the world. During the first years of my life I lived in Jalisco, Mexico, and in my neighborhood, which was a moderately poor neighborhood, many of the residents only got as far as the fourth or fifth grade. Some on them were practically illiterate, to which I think is unfair, for the community, for the opportunity of education should be for