Answer this after reading Menand article.
answer this question sperate not an essay. The questions is:
– Who is Menand?
– How would you summarize (Menand) the main point that flexner is making in his article? (it must 1/2 page), you can find flexner article link down there.
– What are 3 key quotes from the reading that support your summary?
– How does this reading related to the unit project?(The Unit project is focusing on how VCU has changed in the past 25 years).
Menand link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/06/live-and-learn-2
Flexner article link: https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf
Menand article;
Who is menand?
Menand is a university professor who was at Ivy League university but later on transferred to a public system with an overworked faculty and many students who at first was not used to but later on got absorbed to the public university (Menand, 2011).
Professor Menand has observed higher education and is concerned as a great pillar in college education. There are two theories that suggest the main reasons as to why college is important (Menand, 2011).The first theory suggests that in society it is difficult to identify intelligent people and therefore it requires a series if I.Q tests to establish the intelligence of a person. He thus suggests that college is a place where for there is mechanism for sorting out more intelligent members from less intelligent (Menand, 2011).
At the end of college training, the students are exposed to material that gives them sufficient ideas that they may use in developing themselves and society. The second theory however suggests that college only enables a person to study for his/her proposed career regardless of the knowledge they will acquire their main concern is to finish college and get jobs that they studied for.
Therefore, Education should not necessarily be about acquiring knowledge for career purposes. College education should be a place where students learn the basic need of education and learn to refine different ways of improving what they learn. Most people pursue college because either it is necessary or it is affordable to get to college.
References:
Menand, L. (2011, June 6). Live and Learn. Retrieved February 26, 2015, from The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/06/live-and-learn-2