Friday, April 24, 2020

Phlebotomist Essays - Values Education, Education, Erik Erikson

Phlebotomist Education is known as the key to success, and this has become evident the older I get. I never realized however how evident this is to young children as young as ages 7 - 11 as well. After watching Chillot, Guggenheim, and Kimballs documentary film, Waiting for Superman, I began to understand how important a good education is to young children and the consequences a bad education both directly and indirectly has on them. Not only are these children affected by their personal experiences, but by the experiences of others that were failed by the education system as well. Often people tend to blame the children for their lack of progress in school or their decision to drop out of altogether, but according to educator Geoffrey Canada, childrens expectations are made based on their social surroundings (Chillcot, Guggenheim, &Kimball, 2010). Erik Eriksons Industry versus inferiority theory explained in, Invitation to the Life Span, by Kathleen Stassen Berger (2010), states that children often base their goals on the values of their culture, and start to compare themselves with their peers causing them to self-evaluate. If a particular child lives within a culture that does not value education, chances are that they will grow up with an inanimate value to learn. Even in a culture that values education, other factors may also play a large role on the education of its youth. The circumstances in the education of Americas youth are often an act of luck. Luck decide...