Lelac Almagor Response: What is Education For?

1. "I would suggest that the question Allen raises—what exactly are we readying them for?—is one that each child m ust answer for him or herself " (Almagor 20).

2. Overall Opinions: Education's vocational and civic purposed are intertwined and aligned

2.1. Equality

2.1.1. Civic

2.1.1.1. Preparatory readiness

2.1.1.1.1. Writing

2.1.1.1.2. Speaking

2.1.1.1.3. Collaboration

2.1.2. Vocational

2.1.2.1. STEM Education

2.1.2.1.1. Higher SAT Verbal and AP Humanities score

2.1.2.2. Political Empowerment

2.1.2.2.1. Political Readiness

2.1.3. Funding

2.1.3.1. Private

2.1.3.1.1. Higher standards

2.1.3.2. Public

2.1.3.2.1. Universial Standards

3. To be successful in one aspect of education, you must also be proficient in the other

4. "By contrast, a student who has somehow been prepared for civic engagment but can't get a job with decent health insurance is in no position to affect our political system" (Almagor 20).

5. "Our student need every kind of readiness: political and economic, amthematical and rhetorical, prosaic and poetic" (Almagor 20).

6. "Support argue that the promise of public education is meaningless withoout some national, universial definition of what that education ought to compromise" (Almagor 20).