Rhetoric Analysis
Introduction
Adults have an increased tendency to impose learning strategies on children. Most importantly, adults perceive learning to be like torture that everyone must go through for them to learn. Tagore explicitly details his childhood learning memories and how the adults failed to see the rudimentary learning opportunities that are present in nature. This essay is a critical analysis of Tagore’s work “To Teachers”. The author’s man argument is that a child can learn more from nature than from formal classroom settings that are enclosed and distanced from the natural environment. Particular emphasis in this analysis is given to the ethos, logs, and pathos of Tagore’s work. The thesis statement here is that the author …show more content…
The term logos appeal the audience to utilize logic in order to understand the meaning and implication of a given argument. Precisely, the author employs logic in an argument to rationalize an argument. Tagore utilizes a host of personal experience to develop a logical argument in support of his premise. At the beginning of his argument, Tagore asserts that he has been actively engaged in educational crusade, but ended up changing with the concept over the years. Tagore asserts, “My own mind has grown with it, and my own ideal of education has reached its fullness so slowly and so naturally” (2). Tagore goes ahead to point out that the minds of children are inherently sensitive to the influences that the world imposes on them. Tagore’s argument is that children are active in learning, but the education and teaching process tends to limit their scope of learning. Tagore rationalizes the wasteful nature that adults use to educate the children terming it as, “lifeless, colorless, [and] dissociated from the context of the universe” (2). In this statement, Tagore means that the adult teachers think that children understand or view the world as they [the adults] do. In contrast, children perceive the world in a manner that is simple and wide in scope. Thus, limiting them to a narrow learning process is …show more content…
Tagore tries to show how it is bad for the adults to torture children in the name of educating them. To show the impact of torture on children, Tagore cleverly utilizes words and phrases like, “I was forced to attend school” to show how he was forced to do something that was against the norm. The word forced in this phrase shows that the adults made an unethical intrusion of the child’s decision-making matrix. The problem with this intrusion was that the child is not given an autonomous opportunity to made a decision or contribute towards decisions involving the environment to use in the learning
Introduction
Adults have an increased tendency to impose learning strategies on children. Most importantly, adults perceive learning to be like torture that everyone must go through for them to learn. Tagore explicitly details his childhood learning memories and how the adults failed to see the rudimentary learning opportunities that are present in nature. This essay is a critical analysis of Tagore’s work “To Teachers”. The author’s man argument is that a child can learn more from nature than from formal classroom settings that are enclosed and distanced from the natural environment. Particular emphasis in this analysis is given to the ethos, logs, and pathos of Tagore’s work. The thesis statement here is that the author …show more content…
The term logos appeal the audience to utilize logic in order to understand the meaning and implication of a given argument. Precisely, the author employs logic in an argument to rationalize an argument. Tagore utilizes a host of personal experience to develop a logical argument in support of his premise. At the beginning of his argument, Tagore asserts that he has been actively engaged in educational crusade, but ended up changing with the concept over the years. Tagore asserts, “My own mind has grown with it, and my own ideal of education has reached its fullness so slowly and so naturally” (2). Tagore goes ahead to point out that the minds of children are inherently sensitive to the influences that the world imposes on them. Tagore’s argument is that children are active in learning, but the education and teaching process tends to limit their scope of learning. Tagore rationalizes the wasteful nature that adults use to educate the children terming it as, “lifeless, colorless, [and] dissociated from the context of the universe” (2). In this statement, Tagore means that the adult teachers think that children understand or view the world as they [the adults] do. In contrast, children perceive the world in a manner that is simple and wide in scope. Thus, limiting them to a narrow learning process is …show more content…
Tagore tries to show how it is bad for the adults to torture children in the name of educating them. To show the impact of torture on children, Tagore cleverly utilizes words and phrases like, “I was forced to attend school” to show how he was forced to do something that was against the norm. The word forced in this phrase shows that the adults made an unethical intrusion of the child’s decision-making matrix. The problem with this intrusion was that the child is not given an autonomous opportunity to made a decision or contribute towards decisions involving the environment to use in the learning