Re-thinking Education

FINAL BLOG:
After reading this blog question about a week ago, I was a pretty unsure of what I wanted to write about. I was having a hard time pinpointing one thing that I have reconsidered as a result of cultural studies throughout this semester. I so realized that the reason why I was having such trouble trying to figure out what I wanted to write about was because I have found myself reevaluating my entire education during this semester. I feel like a common and predominant theme throughout the class and in The Theory Toolbox has been to constantly reconsider your preconceived notions. Now, this is something that has been discussed a little bit in class but I think I have found myself questioning the value of education and especially high education.
I think the main part of this that I am concerned with is the ways in which the school system chooses the information that will be covered in class. The power is given to someone in each system, and this person ultimately has control over what information is shared with the children, but more importantly what information will not be shared. This seems very flawed to me. I’m not sure if I can envision a specific model of a system that I think would work better, but I’m sure that the fact that children are fed information as absolute truth is wrong in many ways. These children need to be aware that everything is indeed subjective and contextual and that they should constantly be questioning the information that is being fed to them instead of simply eating it all up without any notion of personal opinion or identity.
I think I have come to question this idea through our lessons about authorship and also through our discussion of what it means to be privileged enough to go to college. We must constantly re-think our ideas about things, as they have probable been fed to us through a feeding tube without our knowledge.