1. A curriculum that avoids questioning school and society is not, as is commonly supposed, politically neutral. It cuts off the students' development as critical thinkers about their world.
-I like this quote by Shor. I completely agree with how schools should focus on teaching their students the facts about the society we live in. Instead, talking about politics in school is considered inappropriate. We are teaching our youth to ignore politics and injustices in our society. And by trying to keep the youth ignorant to these injustices, schools are making a political statement.
2. If the aim of intellectual training is to form the intelligence rather than to stock the memory," Piaget wrote, "and to produce intellectual explorer rather than mere erudition, then traditional education is manifestly guilty of a grave deficiency"
-Shor is quoting educational philosopher Jean Piaget, who believes that schools measure intelligence only based on memorization of facts. Schools also view those who are dubbed intelligent as more superior than those who are viewed as not intelligent. Piaget argues that intelligence should be based on a persons enthusiasm for learning about the world around him or her, and their critical thinking abilities. I agree with Piaget on how there are many different ways of measuring intelligence, but I think that the best way of measuring a person's intelligence is how open-minded they are to other people and culture's outside their own.
3. Social and economic values, hence, are already embedded in the design of the Institution we work in. in the "Ideal corpus of school knowledge "we preserve in our modes of teaching and in our principles. standards, and forms of evaluation.
-This quote should be very obvious to anyone who has ever been involved in the education system. The education system is extremely biased to those who are in a higher social and economic class. Especially in recent years with the price of college tuition skyrocketing at the same rate as the need for a degree to get a job with a living wage.
I enjoyed reading the quotes you chose and responses to them. The first quote and your response was something I really agree with. When students graduate high school, how much of the real world do they actually know? How well can they be contributing members of their community and society as well? In my high school I had a teacher that really focused on what was going on in the world. but was still able to teach what was in the curriculum. Most teachers think doing both is impossible, but really it just takes a little more effort.
ReplyDeleteI really loved the first picture I think it shows so much. Sometimes children have to carry so many responsibilities and that's why it's hard for them to keep up with school.
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