Students enter university and college unaware of the world opening to them. They are no longer seen as young, naïve, and blind to the real world; they are expected to just wake up and be knowledgeable about taxes, bills, or loans when they have never been exposed to these things in their twelve years of public school education. Being naïve blooms into ignorance when they choose to not learn, and instead willfully stay in their specific mindset. When students do not learn from the world from around them, their education is significantly impeded. College students cannot be allowed to maintain a willful ignorance because the student’s ignorance is disruptive to their learning environment.
Students can be ignorant of many things in the institution …show more content…
Examples of this are the Civil Rights Movement lead by leaders such aa Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, President Lincoln abolishing slavery throughout the entirety of the U.S, and finally more recently, same-sex marriage. All of the moments in history listed had opposition, and in some cases still do. Each side calling the other ignorant and naïve. But all of these moments in history have been protected, because of people’s right to free speech and the ability to inform others of their beliefs. “Future movements, from all political positions, need that protection” (Volokh) from not only their own ignorance, and the dissenting speech of others, but also the opposing …show more content…
Some use it as an excuse to ignore the worst parts of ourselves and others, or to place blinders to certain things in the background. This is justified to an extent. People cope with the harshness of the world around in different and complicated ways. There still needs to be the acknowledgment of the ugly and hateful. Even those that experience the worst of society, experience trauma, use this to cope. Both are forms of ignorance. “Trauma affects how students learn,” (Byron), teachers and students alike need to at the very least be aware of this, and tolerant of those that have gone through such trauma. To be ignorant of this is to not only rub salt in the wound of those affected by the various types of trauma but also, tell them that these reactions are not
Students can be ignorant of many things in the institution …show more content…
Examples of this are the Civil Rights Movement lead by leaders such aa Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, President Lincoln abolishing slavery throughout the entirety of the U.S, and finally more recently, same-sex marriage. All of the moments in history listed had opposition, and in some cases still do. Each side calling the other ignorant and naïve. But all of these moments in history have been protected, because of people’s right to free speech and the ability to inform others of their beliefs. “Future movements, from all political positions, need that protection” (Volokh) from not only their own ignorance, and the dissenting speech of others, but also the opposing …show more content…
Some use it as an excuse to ignore the worst parts of ourselves and others, or to place blinders to certain things in the background. This is justified to an extent. People cope with the harshness of the world around in different and complicated ways. There still needs to be the acknowledgment of the ugly and hateful. Even those that experience the worst of society, experience trauma, use this to cope. Both are forms of ignorance. “Trauma affects how students learn,” (Byron), teachers and students alike need to at the very least be aware of this, and tolerant of those that have gone through such trauma. To be ignorant of this is to not only rub salt in the wound of those affected by the various types of trauma but also, tell them that these reactions are not