This article is a response to Hai-Anh Dang and F. Halsey Rogers research: “How to Interpret the Growing Phenomenon of Private Tutoring: Human Capital Deepening, Inequality Increasing, or Waste of Resources?” Dang and Rogers explore the rise in private tutoring companies over the past few year and the significance of this occurrence. They explain that private ...
It is my contention, as presented in previous articles, that a distortion presently exists in the role tutors traditionally held. Furthermore, I would suggest that this distortion has been caused due to the watering down of American educational system (but lets save that discussion for another time), and the generalization of the tutoring profession. Tutors ...
In the first article a tutor was defined as, someone who teaches or guides an individual in a special subject or for a specific purpose. This particular role in education, until recently, was filled by governesses and those who taught specific subjects. Presently, I would argue that this role has been distorted. These days tutors are ...
Tutors have been aiding in education for hundred of years. Their purpose has always been to help individuals with their education. Merriam-Webster defines tutor as a verb meaning “to teach or guide individually in a special subject or for a particular purpose.” You see a tutor has always served a purpose throughout history. In ancient times, a ...
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