Persuasive Essay Has Supreme Court reconfigured American education ?

Select an educational expert position to analyze from the readings this week. Write a persuasive essay identifies the fallacious arguments and rethorical ploys used in the position article . Use the attached template to fill out and read the template sample to know how to. Thanks

Week 1: Should Schooling Be Based on Social Experiences?
Assignment: Identifying Fallacious Arguments and Rhetorical Ploys
Educational Issue: Should Schooling Be Based on Social Experiences?
Educational Expert Position
Yes: John Dewey No: Roger Scruton
Summary of Author’s Position:
Traditionally, the purpose of Education is to transfer bodies of knowledge, skills, and moral training that has been developed from the past, to prepare young people for future success and responsibility (Noll, 2013). Dewey felt that traditional education focused on route memorization of knowledge and skills predetermined by the school system, textbooks, and facilitated by teachers, and neglected student experience. Essentially, he felt that the traditional (old) educational system resulted in disengaged students who are stuck in the past, rather than living in the present and preparing for the future.
Rhetorical Fallacies and Ploys Used by the Author: Quotations and Rhetorical Ploys
Part 1: Quotations 1 “The traditional scheme is, in essence, one of imposition from above and from outside. It imposes adult standards, subject-matter, and methods upon those who are only growing slowly toward maturity. The gap is so great that the required subject-matter, the methods of learning and of behaving are foreign to the existing capacities of the young. Consequently,

they must be imposed; even though good teachers will use devices of art to cover up the imposition so as to relieve it of obvious brutal features (Noll, 2013, p. 5).
2. “Theirs is to do- and learn, as it was part of the six hundred to do and die” (Noll, 2013, p.5)
Part 2: Rhetorical Ploy
1 Dewey uses a lot of loaded language in the above paragraph. For example, the word “scheme” has a nefarious element attached to it.
For example, a Pyramid Scheme, is not something that has a positive connotation. This is an example of using the rhetorical ploy of emotional appeal. Instead of using the word “scheme” in the above paragraph, less biased words he could’ve used that would not have conjured negative emotions but would have conveyed the same thought would be “practice”, “strategy”, or “plan”.
2 Dewey also uses the words “imposition” and “impose”, which are also words that conjure negative emotions. Nobody wants to be “imposed” upon. The word “Imposed” also conjures negative emotions and implies a lack of respect or forcing something on an unwilling participant. A less biased word for “imposed” in the context of this paragraph would be established.
3 Dewey also uses the term “cover up” and “brutal”, which has very strong appeals to emotion. The term “cover up” implies duplicity and the term “brutal” implies cruelty. It is unlikely that educators or the educational system had either duplicitous or cruel motives.
4 Although in the second excerpt the phrase,
“Theirs is to do- and learn” is easily understandable, which implies the students were being forced to learn things they didn’t value and may not have been relevant to them, the second part appears to be an irrelevant parallel

rather route memorization was emphasized.At the time Dr. Dewey wrote these excerpts, schools were segregated, corporal punishment was widely used, and the focus was on the adults and not the children. The phrase, “Children are to be seen and not heard” was a common parental saying in the 1930s. In contrast, and largely due to the progressive movement that Dr. Dewey was an integral part, our focus today is on student learning, as opposed to teachers’ “teaching”.
However, Dr. Dewey’s belief that education should be based on experience, and not solely on transferring information and skills derived from the past is still relevant today. Although learning information and developing skills are important, the focus today is more on teaching people “how to think” rather than “what to think” (Santens, 2017).
The technological revolution that we experienced in the last 25 years, came from “thinking outside the box” and the ability to think both analytically as well as creatively.
References:
Santens, S. (2018, June 2). Stop Teaching Students What to Think. Teach Them How to Think. Retrieved September 27, 2018, from https://www(dot)edweek(dot)org/ew/articles/2017/09/27/ stop-teaching-students-what-to-think.html
Mann, A., & Cremin, L. A. (1961). The
Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957. The American Historical Review,67(1), 156. doi:10.2307/1846325 Version 1 11/2018