John Marsh Education

John Marsh is an assistant professor in the English department at Pennsylvania State University. “Why Education Is Not an Economic Panacea,” is from his book Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach Our Way Out If Inequality. Overall in Marsh’s story the problem that is presented is whether the cause of inequality is because of lack of education. In higher class part of Chicago the University of Urbana- Champaign holds two very large graduation ceremonies in the spring. So large the crowd cannot fit in the basketball arena that holds sixteen thousand people. Marsh taught some of the students that attended the University of Urbana- Champaign however he was not at the graduation that may. Instead he was at another graduation in a shabby room in

He had created a monster. He started off with a class to help citizens in that lived in poverty a new start and for ones who didn’t make it a chance to get a higher education. Marsh didn’t think the project would solve the world’s problems. The class of graduates made it the entire year was just a small portion of adults in the poverty area that took the step to get chance to get a higher education. Most had no set plans on what they would do with this education. Most people had the same thinking as the cameraman that if they people living below the poverty level received education poverty would go away. Marsh felt that he failed and got students hopes up. One does not blame the camera man for thinking that education could fix the world’s problems especially because the problem is poverty and inequality. The cameraman and his wife did have good faith and reason to think that education was a cure. Just a couple of months before graduation day President George W. Bush surprised journalist and other listeners by speaking of the growing economic inequality in the United States. ‘The fact that inequality is real,’ Bush told an audience of Wall Street Executives. ‘It’s been rising for more than twenty five years.’ The problem in our economy is that it is increasingly rewarding education and skills because of education. The Washington Post noted in the coverage of the speech ‘Bush’s remarks were an unremarkable statement of what many

He continues to teach classes and keep doing the Odyssey Project however his doubts had. The doubts would get higher when he would see a student drop out or start to go downhill and that humanities and higher education left them out to dry. His doubts didn’t include education being industrial or those with little income, but if it was really capable of doing good and what good actually came from it. If every student got the chance to graduate would it make a difference? Would they be able to get into a real college? Would it even make a change in Champaign County? Truthfully on person was not going to help people out of poverty and inequality. Marsh came to the conclusion that education holds too much stress and on hopes for economic justice. The thesis that education alone will not change things has surfaced. Not very many have given a lot of thought as it actually deserves. He knows only due to the fact he had his doubts about the project. He searched for someone with the same questions and looked hard for that person with the exact same questions. What has made so many especially those in higher power believe it? If education is not the solve for the problems what