Hw 44 Big Expectations for School

Liberal Arts Education:
This website says that liberal arts colleges "provide an exceptionally effective learning environment for developing the kind of intellectual power and propensity for action that the world needs to tackle the daunting challenges we face." Basically, that liberal arts colleges are benficial because they allow students to solve problems, this is the mindset that is expected of students in this type of education.

In addition, liberal arts has "an obligation to help our students find a way to translate what they have learned into a potential career direction." The transcendant way of teaching, that education will lead to higher levels and lead to overall success, the ladder of education. But solving the problem at hand is iminant, dealing with the present situation. It seems as though liberal arts college has aspects of both transcendent (ladder) and iminant (current situation) education although arguably, the balance may not be evenly distributed I would guess that it is more transcendent than iminant because the main reasons people go to college to begin with are for the opportunities it provides for the future.

Obama's School Speech:
He talks about how no matter what you want to do in life, it requires an education "And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers." In some ways I agree, people do need to have a good background of knowledge in order to get into different work forces but I feel that many of requirements for education are exaggerated, maybe not everything we learn is absolutely necessary and there may be things left out in the curriculum.

He also says, "You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it" This seems like a very justified view on how people get into careers, that everybody works for their job, so they deserve the job they have which I do not necessarily agree with. Obviously a job is not going to fall into your lap without any effort at all. There has to be some sort of effort to obtain a career. But competition and connections I believe go hand in hand, if you have connections, you have a higher advantage when competeing for jobs so not every job necessarily requires the same amount of effort and 'hard work' from everyone if you know the right people.

Institutions:
This website talks about the benefits of institutions..."Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones." Basically that institutions allow for everyone to think the same way so that everyone has common knowledge. IT seems to me a form of manipulation for people to understand each other and cooperate to keep society running through institutions.