Analysis Here I Stand

In the speech, “Here I Stand” by Erica Goldson, she explains how the school system gets you to memorize the answers not learn the lessons. She first starts off about telling a story of a kid that wants to learn fast and a teacher explains to the student that learning takes time and to focus on more goals at a time. She goes on to explain how in school you’re more memorizing the answers rather than learning/preparing yourself for a career you’re really interested in or good at. She later talks about an expired school teacher that feels the same, that if they gave kids more time and to create risk takers to that we are not all the same people learning and doing the same thing. Erica Goldson later explains how a avant-grade teacher taught her …show more content…
In the first paragraph of her speech she gives a little story that starts you off with an idea of what her speeches point is. I believe she structured her speech as an anecdote. She then talks about a problem most of us have been through (including her), which is going through the school education and coming out not knowing most of the stuff we learned. By doing this most people understand what she's talking about and now we all get an idea of what her speech is really about. She believes the school system doesn't teach you that well but instead teaches you how to use your time to study and memorize things the best. She ends off her speech with the central idea that we need to stop this corrupted system and that we all need to soak in the knowledge so that we can grow up and do whatever we …show more content…
Rather than just memorizing and forgetting we need to be pulled outside the cave and retain the knowledge. Last but not least, Erica Goldson says that with the right education you can do whatever you want, by this i believe she's saying that with the right education comes lots of power that we could use for good. With the proper education we can become one of the most powerful/educated countries in the