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This is a random research related to journal entry. So my doctoral thesis focuses on self-efficacy in a non-public school setting as a case study. However my larger educational anthropological Focus is on the value of Education, particularly public education, in America. I am reading a great article that compares the school choice movement of the two thousand and teens to the school choice movement of the 1850s. It is funny to me that I waver back and forth. I believe that one of the greatest threats to public education is the school choice movement and privatization, and yet I think it's also the best thing that could possibly happen to public education right now. Public education is had no great threat for over a hundred years, and here Market forces and the idea of privatizing Education are knocking at the door saying that we can do it better. Horace Mann envisioned public education remaining and the public sphere as a public good to purposely prevent capitalism from deciding who was and was not worthy. While I believe that school choice centers and many private learning institutions have much more insight into the future and can change and more and make future Technologies more accessible than the slow-moving machine of public education, but does not make them better. At the same time, I see the huge benefit of having up-to-date technology and the freedom to explore new educational options that they bring, especially when compared with the antiquated systems that are in public education now. Ultimately hope that school choice and privatization Pros enough of a threat that school boards and school districts are willing to entertain how to teach for the digital age. What are the biggest things that I will say makes this necessary, is that throughout the history of education. However, the internet has given information to everyone and Gatekeepers are rendered useless in this model. Instead of being Gatekeepers, we are now guides helping students to understand the large Bevy of information they now have access to. Schools that are still set up with teachers giving knowledge to students and students proving they have it useless. With this idea I am becoming more critical of the location that I am studying, which I think is a natural part of the research process. :-)