Episode 1 Reflection

Episode 1 talked about the years 1770-1890 and included all of the laws that took place to shape education. Schools are where people learned the meaning of democracy and practiced it. This episode covered a large range of education, but while watching this episode my mind started to think. What disappoints me in this day in age, is the fact that students feel forced to go to school and to college, because everything in converging and saying that you need a college education. Many people are going as far as saying if you do not go to school you are "uneducated" and "dumb" I have a HUGE issue with this. Some of the smartest people I know have grown up with their own business working hard to make a living and honestly there is nothing better then a person going out and doing something, instead of being taught. I think the kids now are robots and do not think or do things by themselves. I hate the push the media, the government and everyone else is doing towards education, I do believe that education is important but believe in tech schools, and doing that specific job, because experience is always better. I wish that we would go back and inherit some of the things that we lost. The fact that boys got 10 licks for making fun of a girl.. now public shaming is accepted. Things were just not tolerated then, no leniency. Kids now are always disrespecting others, think they are so smart when in fact I think we are raising a dumb generation. Mixing the present, with some of the things from the past, may be our past option looking forward.