In the fist paragraph Gatto stated "They said teachers didn't seem to know much about their subjects and clearly weren't interested in learning more. And kids were right: their teachers were every bit bored as they were." I agree with what was stated because if i notice that a teacher doesn't enjoy teaching their subject it gives me the feeling like well if the teacher isn't interested well neither am i. The teachers have control of the classroom and although it seems that the students control it most of the time, if the teacher doesn't demand respect or acts as if the class is boring or to much to handle that's when we stop caring.
Freire had to main ideas, one was teachers are narrating a subject while the students are just there to listen and take in everything the teacher narrates to them. His second main idea was that education is like a banking company, students are to digest "deposits" and regurgitate what they digest when needed. He believes that the whole educational system is oppressed and the only way to fix that is by "Changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them"
While reading through Freire's text i found it very interesting when he stated "The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means or realizing the true significance" I agree with this because as students most of us just listen to what we need to know and don't really learn it, meaning we don't understand the real meaning of what we are learning. We do what we need in order to get by a pass so really understanding the meaning of a concept isn't very common in most students. I also agree with the fact that education is like a bank because students are in school to just learn and spit out what they are "taught" i put that in quotations because i believe that being taught is when you can explain every detail of what ever it is you are talking about, not just regurgitate the common facts.
For the interview with Delpit she was exploring the difference between urban schools that give students the chance to have a fair opportunity to show their brilliance. She wants to be able to give kids of color who are low income to experience the same chance as kids who have better chance of succeeding. Delpit believes that if kids are more interested in the arts it will be easier to express them in school.
I believe that if kids are interested in something such as art (graffiti) its will interest them in school a lot more. I think what Delpit is trying to accomplish is very important to our community because if kids of color are pushed to go to school more and are pulled in by something they enjoy i think they will be more eager to go.
Mr Fanning's point was that many kids where failing this class because they don't do their blogs and that's all you grade in this class. Mr Fanning also stated that many college classes are blog based and this will be a good experience to get us ready for college experience. He got pretty emotional when he started talking about how many novels and books are getting over powered by electronics and before we know it books won't be around anymore.
I agree with Mr Fanning on the fact that most kids are failing this class because of the blog. I think there should be more things graded in class, but besides that i also agree that books won't be around much longer because everything is getting digital. Hopefully that doesn't change the importance of literature.
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