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A 5 page paper that discusses the question: Does education provide enlightenment or does it ensure social control? The writer concludes that it promotes social control and explains how. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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necessary skills to seek gainful employment or to go on to higher learning" (2001). Flury then goes on to say that the pedagogical establishment perceives the purpose a good deal
differently: "They talk about educating the whole child, teaching children to explore, to become discovery learners, to become lifelong learners, learn to learn, learn how to get along in a
mosaic society, how to get along and cooperate with a group, . . ." (2001). Flury also alleges that Canadian educators promote to children there is no right or
wrong and they need to learn to become nonjudgmental if they are to become good citizens as children, adolescents and as adults (2001). It seems as if education and
the community are at cross purposes in terms of what they expect from the education system. It seems that everyone is telling the schools what they should be promoting in
the classroom, what their goals are supposed to be and what the outcomes for the children and adolescents are supposed to be. Educators face expectations that they cannot meet.
When we then ask whether education enlightens or fosters social control, we add an even more complex issue to the mix. Broeckx approaches the question from the other end of
the spectrum. Broeckx begins with a brief description of the average, ordinary Canadian citizen in these terms: "They are good people, but they are also a deceived and abused people"
(2000). Broeckx goes on to say that "To best understand the (seeming) apathy in of Ordinary Canadians (toward the political system in Canada) it is paramount to know, that
from the earliest beginnings of Canada, all resident children have been psychologically programmed" (2000). The practice dates back to the origins of Canada and the fact that this practice of
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