Affirmative action has helped to reduce the impact of this fact. As affirmative action has decreased, discrimination has increased. As for education, many culturally-centered alternative educational models, whether they ve been centered around a racial group, an ethnic group, social class or gender, have served not only to better build, what are often called, basic academic skills, but also significant degrees of social awareness and analytical skills which are no less important. Education is more than just the passage of the 3Rs. The 4 th R being Reasoning based upon values, understanding and principle.
Education is more than training.
Training by itself tends to domesticate, but education liberates. Liberation education speaks to more than the development of basic academic skills. It speaks to the very life blood of a society. The passage of basic academic skills is absolutely necessary, but in the new century we must develop learning models that are as in sync with the coming era, as most schools are now in sync with the society of 75 years ago. America s economic system was once an assembly line-based industrial one.