Running head:PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATESPublic Education in the United StatesStudent Name:University Name:Author’s Note:
1PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATESYou are invited to a dinner party and are seated with Aristotle, Thomas Jefferson, LBJohnson and President Obama . What questions might you ask each of them relative totheir views on Public Education, their ideas, beliefs and educational philosophies? Whatresponses might you expect from each of them? Include the PRIMES in your answer. Howwould you respond if you were asked the same questions?The only question that I would be asking to each of these people who are themselvespublic figures and whom people look up to as leaders and scholars would be “Why do you thinkpublic education is so important and is the need for the same increasing? If so, then why?”As a student I could only expect their probable answer to be that education in any formwhether conventional or not is very important and people are increasingly focusing on theimportance of public education as it is more convenient and a greater section of people in anycountry can avail basic and public education easily. This will help on education bigger mass ofpeople and hence promote greater equality, innovation and improvement if the overall quality oflife.Identify the Three United States Constitution amendments that relate to the government ofeducation ?There are no such amendments in the constitution that speak about education at thefederal level. In fact, it is the local and state governments that are vested with the responsibilityand power of deciding on the subject of education and lastly the individuals or parents have thefull authority and power to decide on the same. The department of education in the states is also
2PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATESunconstitutional as education is not one of the powers allocated to the Federal Government in theStates.Identify the impact ( a paragraph) on education and educational policy of the followingpeople:Ben FranklinNoah WebsterHorace MannMary LyonsTrumanConant All of the educationists mentioned in the list above were ardent and true believers ofpublic education and preached about the importance of knowledge and long term vision. They alleither were for public education or formulated policies and practices that helped out the poor andthe less privileged population of America to read, gain knowledge and get educated. BenFranklin himself received hardly any formal education while Truman proposed the concept of“Fair Deal” where everyone should receive fair chances of getting educated. Noah Webster onthe other hand proposed means of providing education to the poor through setting up of librariesin schools.
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