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Camille Zendzian

Synthesis
Individuality vs. Conformity Revision
06/05/14
Throughout humanitys existence, education has evolved immensely from the
development of well-rounded men during the Renaissance to the highly disciplined structure of
today. In the 21
st
century, schooling serves to force the youth into a strict schedule of vast
education in several constrained subjects. While some may erroneously believe these facilities
efficiently develop to individual to his/her fullest potential, they actually construct future
generations into a force that will merely strengthen society.
Modern education should encourage individuals to maintain their childhood values for
creativity and imagination in order to build that Renaissance man our ancestors devoted all their
work to achieve. The everlasting genius of Albert Einstein was not [a product] of a school
system (Source A); rather, he developed from his individual intuition and perseverance. He was
naturally curious and unable to cope with the oppressive methods of his education system, so
he dropped out. Even so, Einstein was able to increase his knowledge on his own schedule and
discover many relevant theorems and laws. Education should focus on utilizing the innate skills
children possess in order to build up from the foundation which they are already provided with.
They should encourage his curiousity independence dignity, competence, and worth
(Source E), for only then can the individual become an able component to mankind.
Public education should build the nations youth individually through subtle, yet
strict conformity in order to create a better society for the future. Certainly schooling on the
individual level, but its larger purpose it to condition individual needs [to be] subordinated into
group interacts (Source D). Utilitarianism encourages the dogma of The needs of the many
outweigh that of the few. This concept built socialist and communist ideals which strive to
create, in theory, utopias. Certainly one should never go as far as Joseph Stalin; however, a
society where individuals work for the greater good has been humanitys ultimate goal and it can
be achieved through mild conformity in school systems, such as a School Climate and Student
Expectations (Source G).
If schooling systems did not first build individuals and simultaneously encourage
conformity to create a world in which people work together harmoniously for the greater good,
then society would be in a perpetually stagnant state. Generations overcoming the next would
not be able to improve conditions, rather they would remain the same.

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