Education produces citizen
... a University” in which he corroborates the importance of liberal arts which help create a reliable unit of society. The essential role in formation a concept of education producing a citizen belongs to Jeffery Hart’s essay “How to Get a College Education.” In his essay Hart resembles the ideas of John Henry Newman by discussing the importance of liberal arts as part of a college education which eventually leads students to their understanding of valuable roles in the creation of a well-formed society. Another important position in subject of construction an image of a citizen belongs to Bell Hooks’ essay “Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education.” She describes education as a drive to reinforce higher class society. Deserves attention one more essay written by Adrienne Rich is called “What Does a Woman Need to Know?” All these writers in their ways talk about importance of improving education which is fundamentally meant to produce unit of society, which is nothing else but a citizen. But how does education tend to create a citizen? According to John Henry Newman “The Philosopher, Indeed, and the man of the word differ in their very notion, but the methods, by which they are respectively formed, are pretty much the same. The Philosopher has the same command of matters of thoughts, which the true citizen and gentleman has of matters of business and conduct. If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good member of society.” (48) Another narration about connectivity of education and citizenship belongs to Hart’s philosophy professor, he says that “Citizen should know the great themes of his civilization, its important areas of thoughts…The citizen need not know quantum physics, but he should know that it is there and what it means. Once the citizen knows the shape, the narrative, of civilization, he is able to locate new things-and other civilization-in relation to it.” (Jeffery Hart 130) Connection between these two statements is obvious, except maybe John Henry Newman concern is more about moral site of liberal art’s education, atmosphere, in which students gain knowledge. He describes education as branches of knowledge which are connected together, however, Newman understands that it is almost impossible to know all subjects or take every course, instead, he suggests to institutions create an environment in which students with different majors would participate with each other, this how they still would be the gainers and useful citizens. Jeffery Hart theory relies more to undergraduate education. When Newman talks more about environment in which educational system would increase student’s activeness, Jeffery Hart discusses importance of appropriateness of choosing the right courses and awareness of being confused by irrational fads. “But for the time being, what these fads have done to the liberal-arts and social-sciences curriculum since around 1968 is to clutter it with all sorts of nonsense, nescience, and distraction.” (Jeffery Hart 128) It is hard to not agree with these words. Nowadays, more and more students choose to take recently opened courses which require from student minimum of diligence and analyzed information. “-So-called Post-Modernist thought asserts that one “text” is as much worth analyzing as any other, whether it be a movie, a comic book, or ...