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Necho

EcoJustice Education Response

In the article, “EcoJustice Education,” by Theobald and Shandomo, an interesting statement caught my attention, the two stated, “For the past century America’s cultural embrace of industrial values: ever-increasing production, ever-increasing levels of efficiency, and ever-increasing levels of consumption, have been so dominant that the American public scarcely retains any cultural memory of the values that defined an agrarian worldview, values such as frugality, good neighborship, the avoidance of risk, and the psychological profit in work done well.” Wow! But to continue, “As a consequence, the considerable, though disparate, educational movements well below the current radar, such as project-based learning or place-based learning, are operating to some degree in the dark, unaware of the extent to which these efforts resonate with the worldview captured by the term agrarianism.” The one paragraph, kept my attention and made me truly think, “wow!” has society truly tarnished its image overall (far as us as a population?) People are thinking about their “get rich quick scheme” or “their money.” They aren’t thinking of an education, they aren’t thinking of others, instead, they are only thinking of themselves. They could think of children in Africa and many third world countries without food/water, but they don’t; they can think of their neighbor, someone whose in the same city as them going without – food/water, but they do not. Instead, they are only thinking of themselves and trying to become RICH quick. They aren’t telling kids that an education is important, or the rights/wrongs, but then again, maybe they are so lost that they don’t truly know what’s right or wrong? Honestly, there could be many debates, and it could continually go-on-and-on-and-on, society as a whole just doesn’t value education as much as it should – that people fought over.