If someone were to ask you What matters to you? How would you respond? For me, the things that matter right now are living a good life, keeping everything on track and maintaining good grades in college. For my writing class, I read multiple texts that covered the main theme for the course which is, what matters: vocation and purpose. Upon looking over and examining the required readings for the course, adding another text to the curriculum will boost students interest in the future and allow them to see a different perspective when it comes to education. The text I chose is Transcending Ourselves by David Downing. Some of the main points in his text are how we should peruse learning for the love of knowledge. Education has broader goals
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Lewis’s response letter to a student who wrote about the American system of education. In correspondence, Lewis was amazed and expressed the student’s education by hours spent in a classroom (Downing). David writes, “He viewed education primarily in terms of what was happening in the minds and lives of the student, not in terms of what is now referred to as seat time”. Lewis’s idea is similar to Freire’s when he talks about the banking system in his text. In a classroom, you see students sitting in a desk listening to lectures and taking notes as if words were going in one ear and coming out of the other. Days go by and it’s the same process over and over again. Teachers are required to fill students up with the required information and they walk out as if they’ve learned nothing. This is exactly what the banking system is to Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire writes “Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize and repeat” (1993, pg. 1). They both believe it elevates less creativity and lacks relation to the student's life outside of the classroom. Communication is what matters in a classroom and it is key for the balance of a student-teacher relationship. Students should have a desire for education and apply what they
Lewis’s response letter to a student who wrote about the American system of education. In correspondence, Lewis was amazed and expressed the student’s education by hours spent in a classroom (Downing). David writes, “He viewed education primarily in terms of what was happening in the minds and lives of the student, not in terms of what is now referred to as seat time”. Lewis’s idea is similar to Freire’s when he talks about the banking system in his text. In a classroom, you see students sitting in a desk listening to lectures and taking notes as if words were going in one ear and coming out of the other. Days go by and it’s the same process over and over again. Teachers are required to fill students up with the required information and they walk out as if they’ve learned nothing. This is exactly what the banking system is to Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire writes “Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize and repeat” (1993, pg. 1). They both believe it elevates less creativity and lacks relation to the student's life outside of the classroom. Communication is what matters in a classroom and it is key for the balance of a student-teacher relationship. Students should have a desire for education and apply what they