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From the first paragraph of his article it is apparent that John Marsh is questioning the value of a traditional college graduation -- ridiculing the pomp and ceremony that is part of the festivities surrounding commencement in Champaign Illinois. But reading deeper into the article by Marsh one can see he and other professors have given altruistically and generously of their time to help create a graduation situation (the Odyssey Project) for low income people in the neighborhood who otherwise would likely not have a chance to further their education. Not because they are taking classes in the classics (Plato, Shakespeare, et al.) like the courses Marsh taught; but because they are taking "occupational programs" that enhances their basic skills and prepares them for a real job (Rose, 2011, p. 2).
Mixed in with his description of this alternative educational program with a very modest commencement ceremony is Marsh's questioning of the belief that poverty and other ills are caused by a lack of education. He frankly states that "education alone with not change things" and he believes too much emphasis has been put on education as the way to bring people out of poverty. In short, Marsh, a professor whose education brought him a higher salary then he ever thought he would receive, says the country needs to "stop believing" that education is "a magic potion for the poor or anyone else" (Marsh, 2011, p. 7).
Meanwhile, although he agrees in some ways with Marsh, journalist Mike Rose writes from a somewhat different perspective in his article "What College Can Mean to the Other America." Rose explains that "…Hope and desire are brimming" among students at the
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Rose begins his article by panning President Barack Obama's mantra that America needs to "out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build" our competition, in order for the U.S. To "achieve fuller prosperity." The development of innovation through new technologies may be important, but as far as digging the U.S. out of its terrible economic situation, Rose insists, it is "mostly nonsense" (he quotes from an article in The Economist). Instead of looking at "the horizon of innovation" the leaders in America should be "looking straight in front of us at the tens of millions of chronically unemployed Americans." What is needed is "comprehensive occupational, educational, and social services," Rose writes.
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Works Cited
Marsh, John. "Why Education Is Not an Economic Panacea." The Chronicle of Higher
Education. Retrieved October 2, 2011, from http://chronicle.com/article/why-education-is-not-an/128790/. (2011).
Rose, Mike. "What College Can Mean to the Other America." The Chronicle of Higher
Education. Retrieved October 2, 2011, from http://chronicle.com/article/what-college-can-mean-to-the/128936/.
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