Jenny M.
asked 10/29/19Fahrenheit 451 Question
Education
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord” (p. 87). What kind of education is necessary to create citizens who recognize “quality of information,” take
“leisure to digest it,” and “carry out actions based on what we learn from the first two?” (p. 84) How
might this relate to our current educational system??
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1 Expert Answer
Ilona M. answered 10/30/19
MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Quality of education relates to 2 different problems: in tofay's society it is hard to figure out reliable sources for any topic to do not get rapped by fake news, and the 2nd is many highschools do not care what their students learn as long as they graduate, and junior colleges have to deal with their lack of knowledge.
It has been provem that less and less people read on daily basis relying only news created by the media, many students do not read, and so their vocabulary level is very low, this starts in the middle school. The answer to you last question "What kind of education is necessary to create citizens who recognize “quality of information,” take“leisure to digest it,” and “carry out actions based on what we learn from the first two?” is that our politicians such as state governors should rexamine each state's education problem and put more founds to fix it, not spending millions of dollars on TV commercials.
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Connie Y.
This problem of "quality of information" and "leisure to digest it" has existed for centuries in one form or another. Remember that Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in the 1950's which was about the same time as the Red Scare--a lot of hype with little evidence. Credible and reliable resource for reporting "truth" or "quality of information" is even more of a challenge these days with information bombarding us 24/7 and from far more sources than just print and television as in the 50's. What my school district is doing is teaching students of all ages to discern before they read: who wrote it, what is the author's perspective, why was it written, where was it written, and is it reliable? After reading, they are to corroborate that information from other reliable sources. In short, we're teaching critical thinking skills for them to question what they read no matter where they read it. I think this is a far better education than I received in "the old days" where I thought everything I read was "the truth." Questioning and challenging are cornerstones to a "good" education that will help our students grow up to "carry out (wise) actions based on what they learn."11/01/19