SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Steve Wozniak, Apparatchik, Pro Bono
Document Summary
Mass education is what we live with today. Religion in traditional society was the main source of knowledge which is now taken over my education, education is second in importance to the family as an agent of socialization. Many people will say education is in fact is trying to replace parents many educators call themselves co-parents. In many cases parents complain that education is trying to take over the role of primary socialization. This universal mass education is recent and it is still reserved for wealthy countries. 300 years ago most people were illiterate and never attended school. In canada the literacy rate is 99: literacy is the ability to read and understand at a primitive level, university students have gone above and beyond the literacy rate, often beyond grade 8 literate. In the us there is a strong tendency and a lesser degree in canada towards homeschool in these cases parents don"t like what the schools are teaching.
