Malcolm Galdwell's 'The Tipping Point'

Teaching is one of the few jobs that gives the ability to have a close interaction with our future generations on the educational level, and this shows its importance in successfully developing the country and making sure our students have an effective learning journey. Based on stats provided by The National Center For Educational Statistics in the U.S, over 20 million student enrolled in the higher-education institutes in 2013, and with over 1.5 million teachers meeting that demand, seeking knowledge in schools and colleges followed the rout of an epidemic putting an enormous pressure on our educational system, and specifically on our teachers in the classrooms. “The Tipping point” is a book by Malcolm Galdwell analyzing and discussing previous epidemics, and how epidemics tip in societies in …show more content…
It falls under the second law of epidemics “The Stickiness Factor “ which confirms that in order for an epidemic to spread, the message should be built in a way that sticks to the mind of the receiver. The author of “The Tipping Point” argues this point and says, “There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible”(132). When we look at a classroom in the lens of The Stickiness Law, we detect the problem with knowledgable teachers who can’t deliver a clear message to the students which is a problem that widely exist in the teachers community. In this case, professors try explaining an idea to students, but they end up in an infinite loop of explanations; however, to make the lectured idea “sticky” is as simple as making it simple and making it falls under its own logic. In addition, determining the knowledge level of the students in a class about certain subjects is essential in transmitting the message because it lets teachers know what areas of the subject to focus