The Importance Of Shadow Education

Education dictates your future, if you are an educated person many opportunities come natural to you. Education, by far is the main occupation of children around the world. Being highly educated allows you to gain social mobility, altering your social status and advancing your country. Ultimately, an individual’s motivation constitutes whether or not they will be successful in the long run. Most Western cultured students deal with this conflict more often. The children of American are given the right to attend public schools, but according to the U.S. government must be proficient in reading and mathematics due to “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB). If a child has difficulties with completing and being skillful in the two subjects, there will be

South Korea is one of the major countries trying to eliminate this activity. The citizens of South Korea value social mobility very highly as a country; they want to make their country as strong and wealthy as possible. Ensuring their values are met, the children of South Korea must be educated. Education in Asia as a whole is very competitive, most of their students have a common plan of attending and graduating from a prestigious university and acquiring a successful occupation. In order for these individuals to get into these life dependent schools and great jobs, they must out smart their peers, and shadow education does that. Shadow education is considered to be normal and legitimate through children’s careers. If a child starts to believe one of their peers are getting tutored privately, they begin to feel fearful and uneasy; resulting in shadow education spending. The socioeconomic status of students primarily determines if they are able to afford the activity of shadow education. Shadow education is supported by South Korea and is one of the key values of society, making it a symbol of higher social status. South Korean citizens who engage in shadow education develop a higher self esteem, than those who do not. The students who do not use the system tend to believe they do not have a sense of intelligence, which lowers their motivation and self esteem. The Korean government has made plans to make education in their country equal for everyone. The government is “… reduce[ing] family spending and promoting equitable access to learning… [the government] proposed the launch of an English-language television network aimed at young people, with the hopes of reducing the need for families to spend money on private English tutoring services” (Lee & Shouse,