The High Price of Consumerism

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04/20/2008

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Table of Contents The High Price of Consumerism Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Succumbing to the market's demands
  3. The true effects of the changes
  4. Student consumerism
  5. Conclusion
  6. References

Abstract

"Education is not a preparation for the future, it is the future itself," Read my bold shopping bag from the University Store. It was the first week of school, and nearly every fresh student was proudly sporting one of these bags, oblivious to the notion that their education is subjected to the same economic forces as the store they had just visited. The modernist perspective, which the majority of universities have been founded upon, maintains that language, reason, and the scientific method are the foremost mechanism for arriving at the truth (Delluchi 2002). As tuition increases however, students regard education less as an opportunity for personal growth via the acquisition of reason, and more often as a financial investment, which they expect to be returned with interest. As Barry Schwartz argues in "The Debasing of Education," thinking about education economically encourages students to view it instrumentally, thus shifting the student-teacher relationship to that of a customer.

key words- student cusomers, laissez faire

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