There are several purposes of education. The soul purpose of education is to educate all students and give everyone equal opportunity as a means to succeed in life. Through knowledge and skill, all individuals can achieve greatness. In addition, common values such as punctuality, following rules, cooperation, learning to work and get along together as well as a sense of responsibility are all-important factors of education. The combinations of knowledge and skills as well as the common values will help our young students bloom into adults and become responsible and productive citizens. .
Equal opportunity to all individuals is very important in Education. It is only fair that everyone, regardless of race and ethnic background, should all have an equal opportunity to succeed in life. A prime example of how things used to be was stated by the author,W.E.B. DuBois, who in 1907 co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), argued against what they viewed as a position of accommodation or compromise and protested that it was wrong for Blacks to be given only one educational direction (industrial) and Whites several? (Webb, Metha, and Jordan, 2003, p181). This is an issue that I feel very strongly about. Everyone deserves to have equal opportunity not just certain people. In order for every education system to do this, they would have to make sure that all schools had a bilingual or ESL program.Therefore when California and Arizona did away with the bilingual and ESL program, I do not think they took into consideration all the children that they will be hurting. Without an equal opportunity, many minorities will fall through the cracks in the school system or drop out because they will have a harder time keeping up with their peers in school.
In addition, providing the necessary knowledge and skills are another important factors of education. The more knowledge and skills a person receives the better chance at achieving upward mobility.
