Alienation In The Education System Analysis

Professors Cleaver’s idea of the education system is that it is built to turn students into workers. The education system in which we live in today prepares one to work and they do this in multiple ways. The way we are tested, they way classrooms are set up, the assignments we are given, our roles in the education system all affect our outcomes. The government has a set up a system were they make one believe, both professors and students, that they have the freedom of learning/teaching what they want. However, it is all an illusion because there are many standers set by them that we have to follow, so they can deem one as a graduate (worker). The teachers are there to insure that they create more workers and the students are there to show how

The alienation (alienation from work) is experience by the professors because they are not allowed to actually set up their own curriculum. They have some freedom, but most of it is them trying to work around the already set up curriculum that tries to get the student to function as a citizen. In addition, they are forced to give grades, so they wont be fired. The second one (alienation from worker to worker) alienation is set to to distinguish those from power to those without. The professor inmates the boss and the student the worker. For most student the professor is the one with the power who determines our future. The third alienation (alienation from the product) is set up to give students a degree that benefits neither the professor nor the student but the capital. This might give the students and professor a satisfaction of accomplishment but in reality the winner is the capital because they have just gained a new worker. Lastly, the alienation from species being is the disruption of one’s self free will. Professors and students don’t interact because they want to but because they have to, and professor lose their free will when they are forced to teach something they don’t like or when they are forced to give out