Blog About American Youth Not Fighting Back

In this day and age young Americans have been forced to accept these social institutions that are running all over them. Young people do not have as much resistance as they once did and it had caused for the U.S. to take even more advantage of them. This societal institution has been pushing people to the limit and has been coming off as an unfair, dominate ruling that has “subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination”.
Student loan debt is a perfect example of this. In most countries schooling is free or has very little fees, but in the United States it can potentially put you in debt over one hundred thousand dollars. This is making young peoples’ lives harder than they have to be, right out of the gate. These never ending debts are now considered the norm by students and are just accepting that the debt they are going to build up over their college career is just part of life.
In this article Levine points out that the youth are not fighting back against these issues and by lying down it is causing for the U.S. to push things even further.  Levine also argues that schooling does not teach us much other than how to follow orders. He goes on to say, “The nature of most classrooms, regardless of the subject matter, socializes students to be passive and directed by others, to follow orders, to take seriously the rewards and punishments of authorities, to pretend to care about things they don’t care about, and that they are impotent to affect their situation.” I do agree with this because this is how I feel a lot of the time when attending school. I think Levine makes a good point when saying how in school we are constantly being directed by others and following orders about things we don’t always care about. And who says we should take the rewards and punishments of these so called authorities seriously?
There are many different learning methods out there that could be used to gain the same effect as schooling. The United States is putting shame on young people who care about getting an education, but not about the schooling that is giving it to them. Today over 85 percent of people are graduating high school, which is good, but at the same time it seems you do not really have any other choice if you want to “succeed” in life. Even the President of the Unites States is saying, “And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country.” What makes this institution that our society is pushing correct?