The Shock Of Education : How College Corrupts

In his work entitled “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts”, journalist and author Alfred Lubrano poses the question of how receiving education can lead to a harsh reality. Lubrano explains that as a child works toward a higher education, there are certain aspects of life they are forced to leave behind as they enter into a new existence. According to Lubrano’s statement, “At night, at home, the differences in the Columbia experiences my father and I were having was becoming more evident” (532). Additionally, Lubrano states, “We talked about general stuff, and I learned to self-censor. I’d seen how ideas could be upsetting, especially when wielded by a smarmy freshman who barely knew what he was talking about” (533). In answering this question, Lubrano must explore the types of conversations that occurred with other family members, the disconnection from his peers, and how segregating himself from his family

In “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” Alfred Lubrano uses his personal experience with college education and his parents to come up with the statement that “Every bit of learning takes you further from your parents". In his writing, he goes over how his eyes were first opened to the idea that school could bring you further from your parents, when he read a book titled “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, where the writer was quoted as saying “Home life is in the now, school life exists on an altogether different lane, with an eye towards the future.” Alfred’s belief throughout his article is that school brings you to a reality that separates and distances you from your parents and home-life.

In the personal story “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” written by Alfred Lubrano, Lubrano says that his friend Rita Giordano picked a different college than her friends because it “was far away, and a new world to explore” (585). Rita Giordano felt like she had to move away from her home and friends to do something she likes. When she would go back to her home and to her friends, things weren’t the same anymore. Because she moved away, when she came back home, she felt like she was living a different life; her home life. I can relate with Rita because I had to move far away from my friends and my home by force.

Before, people used to leave their homes to communicate with friends through places such as the bar, café, or even going for a walk. Now, technology has made communication so much easier. With applications such as Skype, Facebook and iMessage, we are able to instantly message our friends without spending money, time or energy to commute. Overall, messaging applications have made communication easier, quicker, cheaper and more efficient – all four are demands of which most humans look for when performing tasks. However, there are times when technology usage is more than we should take. Television for example can easily prevent a family from communicating. With 24 hours of nonstop broadcasting news and entertainment, some families can sit through these programs for hours without saying a single word to each other. According to a survey conducted by the Mirror, the average parent spends only 34 minutes with their children a day (Maughan, 2015). Over 2,000 parents surveyed had admitted to being too tired or busy to spend time with their children. With 24 hours in a day, if the average human spends 8 hours a day sleeping (Bjarki, 2015), 7-12 hours a day working or going to school (Ferro, 2015), and 8.4 hours on media devices (Chang, 2015), communication among friends, family members and the outside world in general is expected to be at its concerning lowest. According to research by the telegraph, 65.8% of children under 10 years old own smartphones

Study’s made by AVG shows that fifty four percent of children think their parents check their smartphones too often and thirty two percent of children ‘feel unimportant’ when their parents are on their smartphones. The constant use of the smartphone is a bad model of parenting, but it does not mean that parents have to stop using smartphones because parents can give hundred percent attention to their children without giving hundred percent of their time. In fact, it is healthy for children and they will not see the smartphone as more important than

Attending college with a set mind of success is not only beneficial for the individual who has attained a degree, but to the family and the generations to come. A child’s hero usually tends to be a parent. What greater influence would a parent who has obtained a higher education and has lived acquired the social skills, academic skills and the independence of college be to his children? Further, education is now more

Parents need to pay more attention to their phones than their children. In the article “For The Children’s Sake, Put Down That Smartphone”By Patti Neighmond, it states evidence that “Forty of the 55 parents used a mobile device during the meal, and many, she says, were more absorbed in the device than with the kids”. Children will soon feel neglected that parents chose their phones over them. People have done research that kids feel angry that their parents use the mobile device. It states “ ….Steiner-Adair interviewed 1,000 children between the ages of 4 and 18, asking them about their parents’ use of mobile devices. The language that came up over and over again, she says, was sad, mad, angry, and lonely”. This show that families need to stay off their phones and pay more attention to their each

“According to 2014 data from Pew Research, 90 percent of American adults carry a mobile phone and more than 58 percent of people carry smartphones that offer not only voice and text communication, but also internet, email, and social media access.” Mobile Devices Are Detrimental to Personal Relationships from the point of view of Mobile Devices on Personal Relationships. Whether it is checking your phone at the dinner table, or googling a math question, technology becomes a world, easy to be sucked into. Every day we turn to technology to fix our problems or to ease our mind, but why are we so obsessed with such a time sucking thing? It is safe to say, as a society we rely too much on technology because we are too obsessed with

. Many of these people feel like they are “in between” because the feeling of being fully adult takes time to develop; the feeling doesn’t happen just because they got married or they graduated, you’re in between being a teenager and an adult. According to one study, the person needs to accept responsibility for them self, make independent decisions, and become financially independent; other studies have shown similar criteria for development with the addition of finishing school, for the person to feel like they are fully an adult.

As a student just out of high school, due for at least four more years of higher-education, the problems in education addressed during Chapter 8 are especially pertinent to my own life. However, that’s not to say that the problems in the education system aren’t important on a society-wide level as the quality of education is a major indicator for a society’s level of development and by extension the knowledge and to a degree the values of its citizens. The rhetorical question the textbook asks is a good summary of the flaws of the education system, “education is often claimed as a panacea – the cure-all for poverty and prejudice, drugs and violence, war and hatred, and the like. Can one institution, riddled with problems, be a solution for

Firstly, as most parents stated their children had access to digital devices at home, it could be believed that parents thought this was a sufficient amount of technological use for their children at this age. Consistent with this, parents expressed concerns that children are exposed to too much technology. As the American academy of Paediatrics recommends, very young children should have no more than one to two hours of screen time per day (Radesky, Schmacher and Zuckerman, 2015), children under two years of age should have no screen time at all. Furthermore, children having limited screen time of one to two hours per day also impacts on screen time within the Early Years Setting. Practitioners will not be aware of the screen time children have used at home and if technological devices are given to children's free play then children's screen use could be well over the two hours per day that is suggested. Secondly, parents stated that the development of other skills were important, such as their emotional and social skills. Consequently, Brook (2014) argues that technology distracts children from engaging in social interactions with others. Significantly, parents stated technology did not provide skills that could not be developed from other activities in setting. Parents, whose children had access to technology, expressed a time limit on their child's use of technology, this could indicate parents understanding that too much screen time may be detrimental to young children's development. This links to Sigman (2014) who believes the amount of children's screen time that they engage with now, will impact on the amount of screen time in later life. There is a proposal in Plowman's et al (2010) work that children should have access to technology equivalent to home access, as the home offers a richer digital environment. In comparison, parents

Mom turns on the television and sets the table, dad comes home from work, checks his personal digital assistant for an email he’s been waiting on, while his daughter sits at the table finishing up a “thumb lashing” on her cell phone that she is giving to her “BFF” because she just failed her history test. This scenario has become the norm in homes across America today. It’s the digital age, technology is booming at such a rapid pace we cannot even wear out our devices before the newer up-to-date models arrive. Technology has negative effects on society, because it is causing our critical thinking and social interaction skills to decline, it is disrupting the American family unit, and it has caused us to become a distracted society that is

A lot of people might have known that communication is literally the key in a relationship. Without communication, there can’t be so called healthy relationship but only unhealthy relationship. In their article “College Students' Use of Electronic Communication with Parents: Links to Loneliness, Attachment, and Relationship Quality,” Gentzler et al state that studies have shown that the more immediate a form of communication, and the more that this communication is used within existing close relationships, the more likely it is to decrease feelings of loneliness (71). Communication also has effects on parental relationship with college students. Those who communicate through phones with their parents frequently

Technology has changed the relationships of families. Distracted by their laptops, TV’s, smartphones, and video games, families can’t have a friendly

As a parent, having my children making only connections with an electronic device and having next to none social interactions is concerning to me because the way I am raising my children is totally different and I am now at a lost trying to implement my parenting against their education, it contradicts the values that I am teaching my children at home.