Reforming Education

How Technology is Reforming Education
By Paul Kennard

The institution of the school is changing through the centuries. Each new generation of students sees changes in the school system. Electronic technology is a wonderful invention that has helped places like the school system. But with the development of technology comes increased amounts of moronic individuals. The government doesn’t want intelligent citizens, just obedient; so they do nothing to change the issue of a flawed system. The fashion industry is “helping” by projecting that intelligence is not fashionable and should be avoided. With these pressures, the school has lost the need to teach students how to think because the line of what thought actually is had been blurred. Students believe they are thinking when they are not, therefore school is inadequately teaching students how to think.

It is hard to resist the urges of popular fashion and not follow the herd into becoming what media tries to shape a person into. In today’s society, it appears to be fashionable to be unintelligent; “…strong currents [are] at work against the development of powers of articulateness” (Ricker 8). Popular sitcoms tend to have the hilarious idiot, like Homer from “The Simpsons”. He is incredibly stupid, but humorous at the same time so it projects the image that being brainless is funny and popular. A student must face the stifling pressure of following what is accepted, thus often “…betray a curious sense of shame about speaking articulately…” (Ricker 8). To remain out of a negative spotlight, students will attempt to avoid being the “black sheep”. They will often try to “hide in the mass[es]” (Ricker 8). With these popular fashions guiding the way individuals think, little has been done to change this image of trendy stupidity.