Education Value

I value parts of the nonacademic education we get at school, in the way that Mann describes it. He has divides up school into parts like physical education, intellectual education as a means to remove poverty, political education, moral education and religious education. I do value religious education in the way he describes it: not converting students, but teaching them how to decide which religion is right. Learning about different cultures and religious is helpful in understanding conflicts in the world; being forced to believe in something is not. Therefore, I think the way that that works in school is a good thing.

I value the intellectual education as a means to remove poverty/to get rich a little bit. I'm not badly off, but since I'm not rich either, and if you do well at school, you get to go to college and graduate school and get a job, then you get rich, so I value school for that. I value some intellecutal education for its own sake- but Mann doesn't talk about that. I value the political education part. It makes a lot of sense to have to know what to vote and how to think about the world before you actually have a say in government. (Even if your say is negligible on its own and not en masse.)

The political education we get is a good thing too, in my opinion, for the same reasons Mann says. It's essential to know how the government works and what the issues are before you actually vote.

As for the physical and moral education part- no, I really don't value it. I don't need to learn sanitation and health- common sense is enough there. I have a sport- I don't need physical education. Mann's praise of it just seems strange. I don't value the moral education, either. Maybe I lack school spirit or whatever, but our Core Values seem more like common sense and basic good things to do and not like something that needs to be instilled into the my head. I don't feel I need a moral education at school because I know what's right and wrong. I think it's good that schools encourage being a good person, but I don't really care or think much about it.