Knowledge Sets to Be Imparted in Systems of Public Education
Schools in systems of public education function along with family. religious organizations, and social and political assemblages as the key institutions influential in determining human behavior. When a person's genetic inheritance and biological development during the first five years of life interact with one's environment as determined by these institutions and by life experiences, a person becomes all that she or he is and shall be.
Because people between the ages of five and eighteen spend so much time in school, the knowledge and values acquired in the school setting determine much of the individual's information base and ethical values. Greatest care must be taken, therefore, as to the knowledge and values transmitted.
As to knowledge, each student should be given the foundation to pursue any profession that she or he selects. At K-5, curriculum should emphasize mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, government, economics, psychology, American and world literature, English usage, the visual arts, and music.
These subjects should continue to determine curriculum, with increasing experiences also with world languages and the vocational and technological arts from middle school through high school. Most students should upon such a firm foundation then be prepared to take Advanced Placement courses and to opt for electives according to their driving interests, academic aspirations, and professional goals.
Such a public education will produce citizens positioned to dwell as culturally enriched, civically engaged, professionally satisfied human beings living maximally for self and society on this one earthly sojourn.
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