ds to be true and so people are motivated to get that four-year degree as much for their future financial success as for an education. Today=s college students tend to select their majors based on what they believe the future job market will hold for them rather than on intellectual interests. This concept of education can be traced to the pragmatic nature of the United States= educational system which stresses the value of practical learning.
19:3 There are many problems associated with large, bureaucratic schools. The current educational problems of the Los Angeles Unified School District is a prime example.
The small, personal public schools of the past may be found in some small communities in the United States today, and in many private schools. However, for the majority of students the small schools have turned into Ahuge educational factories@ (p. 519).
According to Theodore Sizer there are five ways in which these large, bureaucratic schools weaken education. These are: rigid uniformity, numerical ratings, rigid expectations, speci
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