It is way to true, that students don’t know how to think for themselves. By this I mean I think there are a lot of people in this world who have strictly been trained to be book smart. It is like they are robots. Although book smart people can be useful, what ever happened to communication? People don’t talk anymore; when I say “talking” I don’t mean texting, emailing, face booking. I mean having a legitimate conversation with someone. To truly know how to read them to understand those not just to hear what they are saying nod your head and move on because in today’s world I truly feel that my peers truly don’t even know how to truly communicate. People have often times told me that I am super easy to talk too; part of this reason is because I love to talk. But also I have practiced this skill, yes it sounds really odd… but it’s true now day’s people don’t know how to express themselves. We as a community I feel are putting a damper on student’s minds. Teachers need to ask the students opinion and when those students give that opinion seriously consider it, don’t think it is the wrong answer just because you have never heard it said before. I mean imagine the weird looks Benjamin Franklin probably got when he told people he was going to make this little round thing that was going to glow when you flipped this little switchy thing. We have to let our students have imagination to let them grow and be themselves. Stop morphing them in the career we think they should have, let them think for themselves, act for themselves, and just flat out be themselves. I love this little thought that I always think about, and it is just too true. “If everyone in the world same exactly the same, life would be boring.” I think I came up with that on my own haha. But how truly it is, if you looked around and if we were all the same color, all spoke the same language, we all wanted to say the same thing. It would be so boring. It would be like talking to yourself, literally.
In my group we talked about how there are teachers at school who aren’t qualified and how talk affects the students and also how different education system run in different areas like Alabama. Standardized testing, the ten year school seniority and applying what we learn to the real world. The school funding ect. There were lots of different ideas which were throw around.
I think you are on to a good start for your paper, although I would have to disagree that students dont think for themselves, or maybe it just kind of sounds offensive. I would say something about schools not promoting independent thought, or something similar.
ReplyDeleteI meant that I think sometimes so schools damped the ability for students to think for themselves. So it didn't mean for it to come across that way. I think it is in k-10 about to not so much college
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have some great ideas for your third paper!
ReplyDeleteGood ideas so far!
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