Answer:
Thematic statement: Education has been formulated and passed on to children as a way of molding them according to the standards imposed by society and within the concepts adopted as correct. This is a problem, since the main role of education should train enough thinking and rational beings to decide for themselves what is right or wrong within society.
Rhetorical strategy that creates ethos: It is correct for healthy education to be manipulative, but to encourage young people to reason and find a conclusion based on their own knowledge and realities.
Step-by-step explanation:
In “A Talk to Teachers” by James Baldwin we can see that the author reflects on the role of education in society and how, in most cases, this role is disrespected by educational institutions in a country. This is because education has been established to manipulate and shape children according to what society believes is right. This is very dangerous, because in addition to not forming rational, perceptive and thinking adults, it can manipulate students into very destructive and disadvantageous concepts for humanity as a whole.
In this case, we must evaluate education by appealing to ethos, seeing that it is not part of ethics and morals, imposing concepts and ideologies on students, but rather stimulating and teaching them to understand the world around them and through critical reasoning to draw own conclusions.