Becoming A Learner Analysis

In Matthew Sander’s book Becoming a Learner, many conventional ideas are challenged. These unconventional ideas tend to put the burden, or rather the opportunity as Matthew Sander’s argues, of learning onto the student rather than the teacher or learning institution, which is becoming a less and less popular idea in everyday U.S. society.
Personally, through high school I had a similar approach, in large part because of the way my parents taught me, who happen to both be graduates of USU. So, their approach to teaching me to become a learner and not a passive student, as Mr. Sanders puts it, makes sense. A large experience I had with this idea was in a high school AP class. In this AP class, in which I felt my teacher had a poor teaching style, one that I struggled to learn from. So, for the first semester or so I went along and was happy with his class because his class certainly wasn’t difficult to get an A in. Then, second semester, I figured out that if I didn’t learn the information that was going to be on the AP test pretty quick, there was no way I was going to pass. So, I decided to buy a few extra study materials and to spend a significant amount of time outside of class learning this information. I can tell you one thing when I passed the test, …show more content…
Sander’s advice and taking responsibility for my own education in order to become a real learner is the best path to making my college education the best it can be. However, there are a few things that I would be interested to know Mr. Sander’s Opinion on and maybe be able to learn for myself as I attend Utah State University. One of my questions is at what point does the institution of higher education become responsible for their teachers teaching? Another question is: would you (Mr. Sanders) change the current grading system and if so, to what? I look forward to being able to figure out my own answers to these questions as I attend the Utah State