Was Harry Potter’s Hogwarts diploma well worth the spell scroll it was written on? Journalists with nothing better to do would like answers. Arbesman.net states the Hogwarts curriculum isn’t practical for the Muggle world, and thus the high quality of schooling is low. This sparked a reaction in the Washington Post, of all sources, that defended the creative, experience-based range of the Hogwarts curriculum. Yes, anything to promote "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".
Is the education at Hogwarts worth getting?
According to the Huffington Post, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" has come out. That means that it is a good time to talk all about the journey Harry has gone through. Since Harry is leaving Hogwarts, it might be a good time to give Hogwarts a record card on how it did. It's pupils are doing this. One came in from Samuel Arbesman. A failing grade had been given:
As near as I can tell, if you grow up in the magical world (as opposed to be Muggle-born, for example), you do not go to school at all until the age of eleven. In fact, it’s entirely unclear to me how the children of the wizarding world learn to read and write. There is a reason Hermione seems much more intelligent than Ron Weasley. It's because Ron is very likely completely uneducated.
All of the graduates can have to go to the Muggle world in order to go to college and graduate schools just like Harry Potter. As outlined by Arbesman, magic won't help Harry very much. The "real" world needs more than this. There aren't any wants, spells, flying brooms or Quiddich within the Muggle world. That means knowing about Muggles and having critical thinking can be the best things to have.
The Washington Post comes to Hogwarts’ defense
The Washington Post's Valerie Strauss talked over it. She said that Muggle American schools should learn from the way Hogwarts does things:
The array of Hogwarts courses — required and elective — has a creative breadth not seen in many a school here in the No Child Left Behind era, in which curriculum has been so drastically narrowed that a lot of kids don’t get much history, science or physical education.
Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Transfiguration, Herbology and Ghoul Studies are just a couple of the classes Hogwarts has to offer. Critical thinking is necessary, because a dim bulb of a wizard is cannon fodder for the dark Lord Voldemort.
Articles cited
Arbesman.net
arbesman.net/blog/2010/11/07/no-wizard-left-behind/
Wiki Harry Potter
harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hogwarts_subjectshttp://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hogwarts_subjects
Huffington Post
huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/19/harry-potter-hogwarts-education_n_786055.html
Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/was-harry-potters-education-an.html
The quality education at Hogwarts includes sing-along
youtube.com/watch?v=7I6cJnQQsWc
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