Daryl Cagle's Amusing Diction

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Daryl Cagle’s amusing diction reveals the astonishing truth about today’s educational system as he swaps out “a young girl’s quote bubble with a picture of a marked scantron test” and recreates her facial expressions as “ignorant and irritating”. He portrays an elderly woman asking a young girl what she had obtained from going to school that day. Cagle sums up modern education by simply placing a multiple choice answer document to the girl’s response. By using multiple colors and patchy lines adds touches of ignorance and foolishness to the piece. Cagle uses this sketch to criticize our educational system. He believes that we are not understanding what we are learning in school, but memorizing pieces to pass. By taking computer corrected tests

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