ABSTRACT
Rose, Rodriguez and Hirsch have raised many interesting questions about the education system in this country, questions such as what will be taught, who will decide, who will be taught, how will it be taught? But all of these questions focus around one thing, what Hirsch called cultrual literacy. He defines it as “thnetwork of information that all competent readers posses” (50). All three authors agree, in one way or another, that our education system is the cause of an increased cultural illiteracy among the people of this country, particularly with the people who are at the stage of their secondary and post-secondary education. The result of this increase has produce an increase of students who are unable to meet the level of cultural literacy set by the school. The difference between these authors is that although each knows what the general problem is, each has his own idea of where the problem is specifically coming from and his own way of solving the problem.
