On Tuesday, we talked
about our current education system in class. I think our current education
system is not very fair but it is reasonable at the same time. It is unfair for
people who worked hard enough but do not have the money that the higher ranked private
colleges require. I also think it is reasonable because this world runs on the
principle of survival of the fittest, the best ones are always on the top of
the society. Even though our education system is not fair, I still think that
our future is not entirely depended on college education. In order to be on top
of the society, one needs to be creative and original. Some people have the
opportunities to go to better colleges are because they are only book smart,
but that will not get them very far. They might not have the strength to
compete with some one who is creative in his/her field.
In Kahn’s essay,
he criticizes how the current education system does not care about gaining real
life experiences and only focuses on textbooks and tests. There is too much
knowledge that textbooks cannot teach the students, knowledge that can only be
gained from exploring and experiencing.
Kahn concentrated
his essay mainly on environmental and ecological issues. He agrees with Gregory
Bateson’s theory that “the code for understanding the basic ecological unit of
survival is ‘organism plus environment’” (Kahn 1). This means that organisms
and the environment are inseparable, all organisms are equally important.
Humans are not the rulers of the planet; we are only sharing the planet with
all the other living creatures.
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