Sunday, October 5, 2008
Thoughts on Ariel
Picking up from where we left our class dicussion on Friday, I thought it was really interesting when Rodo begins to talk about the education system. I totally agree with the class when we said that the information and concepts we learn in school are applied to daily life, but I do not agree that all of this information is completly necessary. I kinda feel society has put an obligation of each student in learnig the material. In other words, if you are in a group and something really common omes up in the discussion and you dont know what it is, you look somehat of a fool. However, if society hadnt forced all of this information into the others, you would have not looked like a fool. In other words, I think that you should be taught skills that are going to be absolutly necessary to the job/career that one wants to follow. If there is a student that is creative and wants to follow an art path, why spend the time in learning derivitives in Calculus class. In contrast, if the student has an interest in mathematics why not spend the time in learning it. Some may argue that if this policy is followed than most people will be ignorant of certain topics, but in reality if a subject does not interest you and you study it anyways, you will ultimitly forget it and you will have lost many years in trying to learn it. If students were allowed more freedom in choosing all of their courses, than the level of interest would be higher, as well as grades achieved, and all would be content. If you really think about it, it makes a teachers' life much harder when they have like 15 students that just fall asleep during class. The teachers will have more orrecting to do beacuse there is alot of wrong answers, and the class wont have a lively feel to it.
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I guess I wouldn't know what it's like to have 15 students falling asleep...I don't think so anyway. But isn't there something to be said for a well rounded education? Are students who will eventually make a living as artists the only ones who would benefit from the study of art, theater, literature, etc.? There is also the question of whether a high-school student really knows what interests him/her. I won't tell you how many books I actually finished as a high-school English student...now look what I'm doing.
Although you make an excellent point, what about those kids that do know exactly what interests them? I do not think its fair that they spend their time learning material as in depth as you learn in high school. Like you said, a well rounded education is very important, dont get me wrong. But, there is a difference between learning the basics of a topic and learning it in depth. If you are having a conversation with someone, and mathematics comes up, just by attending middle school and living life and applying math problems, you would have enough knowledge to get by in the conversation. Just like you said, you never actaully read all of the books assigned throughout high school. However, your passion now for enjoying reading has come from your life expereinces and things you have learned after high school. In toher words, high school is taking time away from a person self discovering what it is they actaully want to do with their lives.
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