Multicultural Education vs. Classical Education
Where should we get our resources that are children are being taught? There are two of them; one is the classical education and the multicultural education. The multicultural education is presented as the inginuitive way of teaching, incorporating all different cultures into our child’s education. The classical education is the modern way of teaching. Most secondary schools and colleges teach by this manner. Even though the classical education is the way most of us were educated by, doesn’t mean that is the way it should stay. Just because the multicultural education is the new way of educating youngsters, doesn’t mean everyone should jump on the band- wagon and follow multicultrism one hundred percent either. America was built on its diversity; therefore we should include multiculturalist ideas and work it into our classical education system. A classical education will get a student through college better than a multicultural education will, but a multicultural education will get a person further in life that a classical education will.
Classical education has many strong points in its system. To name a few, there is the authors like Poe, Twain, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Frost. Classical also has its roots in Europe and America , providing history through literature, books such as Grapes of Wraith and Of Mice and Men are based on some of the history of America. As the old saying goes, “those who don’t know history are bound to repeat it.” The students who have knowledge of there ancestors can prevent another Great Depression from occurring in America or they could learn a way to come to a solution instead of going to war.
Not only does classical education have history added into the literature it also has a wider range of language used, a more developed writing style, and the authors of the material are more educated and able to promote their feelings through words. “Introducing material from a Third World cultures and thinning out an already thin sampling of Western writings.” Because of America’s great diversity of people from the start of the nation, America already has a great deal of multiculturalist writers in classical literature.
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