In the article Don’t Blame the Teachers by E.D Hirsch Jr. he demonstrates how teachers get blamed for how well students do in their class. Teachers all of the United States are being scapegoated for the failure of students in their classes. Is it even the teachers fault? Teachers have to follow the curriculum. They have to complete a certain amount before the end of the year.…
Critique of Reflection on “Excerpt from Why School?” By Mike Rose In this article, Professor Mike Rose reflects about an encounter many years before in the library of a community college, where an underprivileged adult student with learning disabilities from a prior injury is working to improve his education through a program that the college offers for continuing education of adults that were not prepared for college education. The specific story that he is telling relates to Anthony who is in the library seeking information on cocaine abuse to give to his daughter, as he is trying to make a better future for the both of them (320).…
AoW #3: How Does Culture Affect Education? In his article, “Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning,” Alix Spiegel makes many interesting points. He links the difference in education style and success to a much larger cultural difference that separates the two groups.…
The aspect of students and teachers having to follow a certain method of educating or being educated is true in most instances. However; a free-thinking environment, in most of my personal cases, still pertains to be a factor in the classroom. Being “bored” with the education in a classroom is no different than being bored with a television program, you simply find something that peaks your interest and study that material. While most credited education is in a direct format; there truthfully is no limit to the amount of knowledge one can learn, one must have the stride to want…
In today’s society, the American education system is not at its peak; it’s corrupt and polluted with twisted appeals towards money and business. This makes a real education hard to earn, but easy to be handed over via a sheet of paper. Unfortunately, there’s not much individuals can do except raise awareness and hope for a fix. One individual, Mark Edmundson, a professor at the University of Virginia, discusses these ideas in a book titled Why Teach?…
Rather than providing the practical skills and experience needed to shape the real world, the system only produces mediocre intellects who are products of good grades but not practical knowledge and skills “Ellwood n.p.”. In fact, Taylor asserted that both learners and their instructors are bored of the system; pupils continuously complain of the boredom in classrooms since the teachers do not teach them what they observe in the real world. On the other hand, teachers have continued to lose interest in teaching pupils who are only concerned about grades but not the real-world knowledge, skills, and experience “Gatto 36”. Indeed, the current compulsory system of education is a drawback to students’ skill development.…
I have spent most of my life in school trying to achieve my goal of becoming a teaching. Jumping through the necessary hoops, quickly learning shortcuts for completing minimal work for optimal results. The thirst that I once had for learning, exploring and questioning turned into memorization, approval seeking and compliance. I became a product of society and the factory model of education. Starting from elementary school through to higher education the focus of education no longer seems to be the learning process.…
Education: More Than Just Standardized Testing Education can be considered the key to the door that unlocks one’s future. This is the key element in Martha Nussbaum’s “Education for Profit, Education for Democracy” and Rabindranath Tagore’s “To Teachers.” Both of these authors describe how a complete education supplemented with skills necessary for life can open any door for a student, but governmental ambition and educational corruption can lock that door forever. The government of a nation is full of national prejudices, whether they are easily spotted or not.…
Within the book, “Doing School” by Denise Pope (Pope, 2001), throughout the students’ years in the education system, all of them learned how to do school, in one form or another. Each student developed their own tricks and trades to deal with issues they were personally facing and to help deal with issues that developed because of their school’s curriculum. As Egan (2001) stated “We all recognize the difference between genuine knowledge and accumulated codes – we talk of education as against training, wisdom as against “book learning”… But our schools are not good either at recognizing the difference or, consequently, promoting the genuine article rather than the counterfeit” (p 930).…
Some aspects of education has changed, whereas, some have not. I feel as if this is something that needs to be seriously addressed and solved. Education should be something that reaches the depths of souls and minds for children to expand their knowledge, uniqueness, and potential. Albert Einstein said it himself, “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”…
Developing an Autonomous Life In his book, On Education, Harry Brighouse (2006) examines the effectiveness of the US’ (and the UK’s) education system, and its ability to prepare students to live flourishing lives and develop a sense of citizenship. Specifically, in chapter one of this text, Brighouse (2006) declares that all students should have access to an education that facilitates autonomy; this will enable students to live flourishing lives (Brighouse, 2006). In order for children to be autonomous, Brighouse (2006) emphasizes the importance of educating children in the skills of rational reflection and comparison, so children can learn about livelihoods that are different from their parents’ preferences.…
There is a continuous creativity.” Jean Piaget .Learners actively construct their own knowledge. It is the mental construction and symbolic of an individual that is prescribed as the outcome of learning. Instruction is not only something that is given to learners, they use their internal mental processes. Students learn through constructing their own knowledge through experiences and reflecting on them.…
In the article “Teach Knowledge, Not “Mental Skills,” author E.D. Hirsch bases his argument on an experience he went through when he was a teacher in public school. He worked with two different principals in the same school. Comparing these two principal, the first principal did not care about what students acquired from their lessons, and the students’ academic performance was really bad. The second principal was more worried about the knowledge and his students’ academic performance. Hirsch argues that school should teach more knowledge instead of mental skills, and American should learning the teaching method of Europe and Asia which have a similar method of core-knowledge; problem-solving skill is important but depend on pertinent knowledge.…
A Personal Philosophy of Education Education is the foundation of society. It will take place in the home, in the school, and in the community. People educate based on what they believe, and what they believe is formed through their experiences. Having taught for a quarter of a century, my education is still ongoing; teaching is a craft to be honed throughout the course of a lifetime.…
The definition of a true education is the process of developing the ability to learn, apply, unlearn, and relearn. True education is learning. Whether our schools serve this purpose is controversial. IQ scores have been rising since the 1930s, but typical children in the 1980’s experienced more anxiety than child psychiatric patients in the 1950’s. There is even more pressure put on students now than in the 1980’s, Schools have slipped from the teacher having the ability to control their teaching and a student thirst for knowledge to allowing standardized tests control how the teachers teach and the students learn.…