What I Learned Analysis

I love this quote, it is a powerful thing to have the opportunity to have self-reflection and then grow into better more capable human beings. When I first read that the mid-term was a reflective response, my initial question to myself was “have I learned anything?” and the answer was “I don’t know what I’ve learned”. After some self-reflection, I have learned that I am terrible at reflecting on my experiences. It is so easy for me to say I don’t know, instead of really thinking deeply about what I have actually learned and retained, and how these things have changed me as a person. At Ohio Dominican, you can bet in most classes you will have to have personal reflection and I am still trying to work on this skill. This is not to say I have not learned anything while here, but I am learning more about myself, and that I have a hard time opening and really thinking critically on my own experiences. I feel like it almost needs to be poked and prodded out of me, I do not tend to open up willingly. I tend to close myself off to really …show more content…
Washington “Atlanta Compromise” and Dubpois “Souls of Black Folk” to be extremely powerful pieces of work. These articles really being thoughts of “wow, that goodness we have come so far since then.” But when you really think about justice in the educational system for the disadvantaged and minorities, have things really changed that much in our society? Are these groups being serviced the same and most American’s? The answer is No, which is not so easy to see at first, but when thought is really put into it, you come to the realization that the world is still a very unjust place. Like the quote I opened this reflection with, I have had to really think about my definition of justice and then make it better. As an educator, I will need a strong foundation for what justice means to me and how I will effectively teach each student in the most just way possible, regardless of their