Franklin And Emerson's Influence Of Writing And Education

From time to timer, as I reminisce on how my high school English courses were composed, I recall that students were essentially told what to write about and how to structure their assignments. In essence, when it came to writing papers, students were not given considerable freedom to express his or her thoughts. Ultimately and to some extent this instructional strategy hindered my writing, creative process, and interpretation development; although, I am grateful for being exposed to general writing concepts that provided a basis of how to start a writing project. Moreover, when I started attending English college courses I noticed that writing and reading techniques, depending on the course and instructor, began to gradually change. Most of …show more content…
Educators should keep in mind, when directing their lectures, Franklin’s famous phrase, “Knowledge is Power.” We must not forget that today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders and we do not want a world run by chaos and uneducated people.
With the above concept in mind, it is important that students are educated in all fields, not only told what to think or do. When it comes to reading and interpreting texts, indeed multiple meanings can be found for a particular piece of writing. That is not to say that there is no such thing as a wrong interpretation. At times a student may come up with an understanding that is far from what the author true intention was meant to be. Nonetheless, a teacher’s role in the classroom is to guide a student towards the right direction in order for them to build their literary analyzing competency skills; thus, allowing them to better understand the material in question and the author’s true intention. This method is similar to Emerson’s stress on allowing a person to develop individualism, self-trust, and not forcing a person to comply with certain expectations; he also believed that by interfering you are hindering the future that student was suppose to