Richard Kahn's Outlook

I indeed believe that our education is set up to be unequal. However, I don't think it is really as unequal as it seems and was set up to be. Yes, private schools are supposed to provide more quality education than public schools. This is why they cost to attend and another reason is because only wealthy folks can afford to pay for education when it is not totally necessary. Starting here the cycle is set up to be as follows: wealthy parents send their children to private school for a majority of their life for better education, then they graduate with the ability to get accepted to a prestigious private university, succeed there then become capitalist. This happens while "average" children get the "average" education, then attend "average" universities to become nothing more than average and confined to the social class that they have been in their entire life, under the wealthy. Private schools have a different curriculum and way of doing things, this is true. However, in my personal opinion I don't think that necessarily means that public schools provide any less of an education. How well a person performs in the school system is based on their individual self no matter what kind of school they attend. A student in a public school is just as capable as a private school student to get into schools such as Duke and Wake Forest. I believe that if I applied to either of those schools I had a great chance of being accepted. Actually a friend of mine who graduate from a private high school did not even get into NC State when on the other hand I did and I only went to an "average" high school located near a low income neighborhood. Therefore, it is possible for me to graduate and become a capitalist as well if I really desired to. The education system could use improvement though maybe based on what’s in the curriculum and what actually needs to be taught in this day and time that we live in. Fortunately, this education system of promoting inequality is not all what its set up to be.