Credo, By Richard Rodriguez

The essay ‘Against the school’ by John Taylor Gatto draws our attention on to all the cons of attending twelve years of high-school. Gatto has experience in teaching profession for twenty-six years in schools of Manhattan, he shares from his experience that he majored in boredom and could see that everywhere around him. He also points out the initial reason why schools came into existence and what the purpose it fulfils now. He also educates us on the fact that all the great discoverers never attended school and were self-educated.The main idea Gatto addresses in his article are that public schooling is doing the youth an injustice.He implies that the purpose of schooling, now is to turn children into good employes and someone who follows orders.

Gerald Graff is a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Graff, in his essay, emphasizes the importance for instructors to teach and increase enjoyable courses that students shall truly understand. Graff assures that all kids have hidden intellectualism trying to emerge from within, and as a teacher he feels partly accountable to help those kids develop their competencies in educational work. The essence of Graff’s argument is for students to know that intellectualism lurks within them all, and they need to implement their potential at school. Furthermore, he enriches the essay based totally on his own life experiences, along with his hidden intellectualism, while he attended school during the anti-intellectualism

The author compares today’s school system to that of the past, which concerned itself with teaching students,

In “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” Alfred Lubrano uses his personal experience with college education and his parents to come up with the statement that “Every bit of learning takes you further from your parents". In his writing, he goes over how his eyes were first opened to the idea that school could bring you further from your parents, when he read a book titled “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, where the writer was quoted as saying “Home life is in the now, school life exists on an altogether different lane, with an eye towards the future.” Alfred’s belief throughout his article is that school brings you to a reality that separates and distances you from your parents and home-life.

If we are thinking about effect of education – or the lack of it – on our nature, there is another comparison we can make.”(The Allegory of the Cave by Plato p.1) Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece; he was fighting for freedom and education. Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim who was fighting for human rights. We have two stories one is “The Allegory of the Cave” and “Learning to read”, why do we have to compare this two stories? Can we conclude some very important things after reviewing? Education is a very strong tool in our hands, and how to learn right is concurrent part of our life. In this stories we can find two different ways how to study, even though stories have some same ideas, they are different. I have several reasons why they are different and how are they similar.

It’s inevitable for somebody to find themselves in the middle of an important transition in their lives. Humans will grow and age as time goes on and with time, they will begin to discover who they are as individuals. Whether they’re moving to a new home, publically announcing their sexual orientation, or embracing a new identity, transitions and changes are bound to occur. Gloria Anzaldúa recognizes this concept in her essay “Border Arte: Nepantla, el Lugar de la Frontera” by stating “Nepantla is the Hahuatl word for an in-between state, that uncertain terrain one crosses when moving from one place to another, when changing from one class, race, or sexual position to another, when traveling from the present identity into a new identity.” (Anzaldúa 180) This state of nepantla is the middle of the crossroads in moments in our lives. It identifies the middle section in between two locations or destinations as its very own. For example, a person could be in a situation that calls for them to go from Point 1 to Point 2 in any kind of situation. Nepantla would be seen as Point 1 ½. It’s this middle ground that is dealt with in various kinds of ways. A method of assessing this grey area is mentioned by Anzaldúa in her essay. She introduces the idea of “border arte” as a medium to channel the state of Nepantla. It’s very subjective from one individual from the next on what could be considered border art.

Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave” and Paulo Freire’s “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” both contend that education is a process of freeing the chains of deception and false images that make us prisoners in the cave of ignorance. I agree with both Plato and Freire in saying that without education, like the prisoners, our perception of reality is distorted by our lack of knowledge.

In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts to develop the main character of the book Maniac Magee. The character Maniac Magee is kindhearted. Maniac Magee shows this character trait all throughout the text. An example is when he does chores all around the Beale’s house. This shows that he is kindhearted because he does these things without being asked.

It’s twelve at night. Tons of papers and a cup of coffee on the desk prepared for pulling an all-nighter. Studying for the exam tomorrow, cramming tons of class-notes and materials. Students are fighting for an A. However, what do we expect them to learn from it? Is it even beneficial to them? After all, most students forget almost everything as soon as they finish the exam. Apparently, there are some fundamental problems in our current educational system. In the three essays, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education” by Paulo Freire, “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto and “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez, the authors realize different problems of the educational system and have different opinions about it. In my point of

The Old Gringo is a fiction novel written by one of Latin America’s most renowned and eloquent authors, Carlos Fuentes. Filled with war, adventure, love and more, this novel takes you back to the Mexican revolution fought in 1912. This contemporary fiction is based on many themes found and experienced by the main characters in this novel. The relationship between Mexico and the United States, the drive to find one’s true self and the different ways two men need a woman are only a few themes contained in this story. The question: Is he Ambrose Bierce or just an old gringo, is one that I had to answer while reading this book. We all have different opinions, but it is a question that all ask

In the first chapter of “The Ignorant Schoolmaster” Ranciere analyzes two radically different pedagogical orders in education. Ranciere characterizes the two orders by a stultifying or an emancipatory master. All conscientious professor’s believe in the order of stultification, which aspires to lead students through a series of steps until reaching the master’s level of knowledge. The principle of stultification supports the pedagogical myth, dividing intelligence into inferior or superior (7). On the other hand, Ranciere characterizes the order of emancipation as universal teaching, or the ability to learn without oral interpretation. Jactot, a French professor in literature, emancipates his students in an intellectual adventure when they

The poem is a very difficult one to give a properly literary analysis of, at least for me, but here goes. The poem, “Alabanza”, written by Martin Espada, is both meant to be a celebration of the workers that died in the terribly tragic events that occurred at the World Trade Centers in 2001. At the same time, it is also trying to make us aware of and even mock, the things that Marxism hates most about Capitalism. Things like, commodifying, consumerism, the class system (class discussion and powerpoints)

“Wicked and pernicious system!” exclaims Michel de Montaigne in his seminal essay Of the Education of Children. In this impassioned discourse, Montaigne addresses an expectant mother on how to educate her future child. In a particularly striking passage1, which encapsulates the overall argument of his essay, he warns her by painting a vivid picture of the follies of current educational practices. Through his labyrinthine logic, striking use of imagery, and commanding appeal to great minds of the ancient world, Montaigne crafts an emotionally stirring argument: we must do away with the tyrannical systematization of learning and make education a joyful and liberating process.

Society is made up of macro-level institutions, meso-level organizations, and micro-level individuals, where all three levels interact with one another. For example, the education system is an institution, “a stable cluster of values, norms, statuses, and roles that develops around a basic social goal” (Basirico, Cashion, Eshleman 2014:113). The role of education as an institution is to help the younger generation prepare for the workforce by helping them to develop skillsets and to replace the older generation when they are ready to retire. For example, homework is given to the students to accompany the teachers’ lessons to help them understand the concepts. Teachers are required to administer tests to measure student’s understanding of the material. These assessments are used to help prepare students for their future goals in life.

Throughout his text, Newstok proposes multiple ideas regarding how the change in the education system has led to the decline of the overall function of society. Newstok notes that thought should not be restrained exclusively to what is learned during classes, but instead should