Utos Ng Hari Summary

Many believe that it was the parents and the teachers fault for not doing what they were supposed to do. For example, Laurie’s parents could have taught him better to behave and to know how to follow the rules. In the beginning of the book, it says, “He came home the same way, the front door slamming open, his cap on the floor, and the voice suddenly become raucous shouting, “Isn’t anybody here?” It is being shown that even at home Laurie is being very disrespectful which can be because he hasn't been taught very well. Parent should start teaching at an early age. It seems that Laurie wasn't taught or just didn’t learn. While other people believe that it could have also been the teacher's fault. Some people think that the teacher should have called on the first day that Laurie or Charles had misbehaved. His actions were being repeated over and over throughout the book. Everyday when Laurie got home he would talk about Charles. Charles had misbehaved for quite a while. Normally at school, the teachers call home if you misbehave several times. The teacher could have done that too. Although if you do misbehave there will always be consequences for the person that caused like like in the real world; if you do a crime, you can get sent to jail or go to a judge,

These stereotypes of teachers inspire the general public by showing a “fairy-tale version” of what truly happens in the classroom. The movies make it look like there is always some huge triumph at the end of the day and everyone ends up learning what they need to learn. This does not always mean learning the classroom material. Breault states that in most of the movies studied the teachers are more focused on teaching life lessons as opposed to the basic knowledge that should be taught in the classroom. The article also discusses how the teaches are viewed as heroes who save the students and advocate for them outside of the classroom. The teachers in the movies are praised for never teaching with a textbook or teaching regular course curriculum. The pictures show that the real live classroom is a lot more structured than what is portrayed in

In an oppressive society, a group of individuals are expected to adapt and be controlled by a more powerful group without question. Similar to a “banking concept” of education, at times it seems the student is not expected to think for themselves. They listen to what the teacher “deposits” into their mind, and they adapt. I strongly agree that this limits comprehension and creativity and forces you to adapt to thinking like a robot. He makes a strong case with his analogy, “Four times four is sixteen……The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means.” It’s easy to get discouraged in school when it feels like information is being thrown at you without much encouragement to fully grasp it. It’s nearly impossible to truly understand a concept when you’re forced to memorize it immediately for a test. In conclusion, teachers with this mindset should understand that to be a true educator is to encourage the student to take the time to comprehend the material

The first thing I will talk about in this book is the positive and negative effects of physical contact with your students. Michie, the main character, was in an incident where he was accused of touching a student inappropriately. Although the truth was revealed that he didn’t do what he was accused of, it shows how physical contact with a student can have a negative impact on a teacher’s career. Even though Michie was merely trying to console a person, children look for attention in any way they can find. This incident nearly cost Michie his job, but at the same time, a big part of teaching is showing the kids you care for them. Michie believes it is hard to care for people if you keep them at arm’s length, and I agree. Physical contact is an

She discusses the importance of respect between the teacher and student. Those who may not be familiar with a respectful relationship between an adult will learn it at school by the teacher providing acceptance and assistance to their needs. A teacher is not to provide passive displays of aggression to show that they are disappointed or frustrated. The best would be to pull a child to the side preferably when other children are not around to discuss how a respectful relationship would work. A teacher should form close relationships with those in his/her classroom. Making sure that children feel loved helps encourage them to learn.

Education is meant to broaden the minds of incoming generations to the diverse cultures and aspects of the world. While its purpose is meant to open up horizons, it has also held up the task of oppressing opposing thoughts and judgments. Author James Baldwin exposes this truth in his article, “A Talk to Teachers,” as he chastises the education system’s contradicting actions inasmuch as the support of an all-encompassing education while scorning unconventional thinking. Baldwin’s purpose to confront the antithetical activity to hopefully change the system’s ways is attempted by persuading teachers who “deal with the minds and hearts of young people” that a paradox of education occurs when students develop a conscience--they become “at war” with society--is valid in that education should allow development for individual thoughts and varied opinions to challenge for the reconstruction of society’s oppressive nature.

We hold these truths to be axiomatic: that all students, no matter their background, ethnicity, or rank, are created equal in status and in identity; no student is higher than the other. Each student is equipped with secure and unalienable Rights; that among these rights are Respect, Rightful Identity, and Freedom of Speech. We also believe that rules are formed to protect these certain rights and that the power of these rules comes from the power of the students; whenever any part of the rule fails to protect these rights, it is the right of the students to change it and to form a new rule that follows such principles which organizes its powers to end in Security and Happiness. Fair judgment, as a matter of fact, will ordain to say that long prevailing consequences should not be changed because of trivial, temporary, or fleeting reasons; and, in fact, history proves that students are more likely to suffer the bullying,

A Critical Incident analysis of Symbolic Violence” examines a prevailing theme of symbolic violence within the school system. An important example from the text is when Herr and Anderson examined Mrs. R’s and Mr. Y’s classroom and the environment the students were learning in. To begin, Mrs. R perpetuates that her students cannot be helped, she is authoritative, and operates on this idea of respect, however, fails to give respect back to her students (Herr & Anderson, 2003). The text explains this as she is failing to recognize her students’ abilities, and by doing so created a hostile environment of the students not wanting to be there, or wanting to learn (Herr & Anderson, 2003). Mrs. R was working in a symbolically violent environment that was not working to help her student learn. On the other hand, Herr and Andersons analysis of Mr. Y showed the difference in quality. Mr. Y was respectful to his students. He worked with the students to ensure through their student-teacher relationship was respectful. Through this respect and mutual understanding, Mr. Y was able to push his student to thrive (Herr & Anderson, 2003). Thusly, we can begin to see how schools perpetuate the social hierarchy system (Cruz, 2018). This support for the “dominate” ideology does not allow for others who do not fit into the dominate culture to thrive properly, and as a result has an effect on the level of success people can reach if are

The Classroom shows all the issues in the school system which is caused by a leader that doesn’t know how to lead, effecting the teachers and students negatively. The fish roots from the head, the principle was constantly worrying about less important things, for example, making the students stand when he enters the room or during a meeting discussing the behavior of students he interrupts saying he wanted to discuss something more important, the coffee machine. He is supposed to be running a school and all he is worried about is coffee and the “respect” he receives when entering a room.

Anderson can be seen as being very biased in this article which leads her article to be seen as a diatribe forum of argument. Her biased writing is set in a tone of anger because of the personal experiences with teacher’s through out her schooling she has had. “The tragedy also has me thinking a lot about the teachers. Not from an academic point of view, but in the visceral feelings I have for teachers I have loved. There were only a few but they all had the same qualities in common: Patience. Compassion. Understanding. Passion” (504). This personal touch in her writing sets the whole tone of her paper because she believes she knows that all teachers are like the ones she had and this has made her come to the conclusion that none of them have the ability to carry and use guns to protect their

Throughout history, many academic scholars and teachers often feel disgruntled when interacting with troubled students. Whether these situations take place in: preschools, elementary schools, or higher education learning, the following disturbances become problematic. For example, in the article titled “Preparing Teachers for Crisis: A Sample Lesson” – written by Japanese Kevin Kumashiro, Kumashiro talks about [i.e. his views] what it means to be a student and how "anti-oppressive teaching" should be ruled out in academia. For this reason, my paper will analyze the credibility of his claims.

Before 1979, Marjane had attended a French non-religious school where boys and girls had studied together. In 1979, the revolutionaries call for a “Cultural Revolution” in which bilingual schools should be closed because “They are symbols of capitalism.” The people are depicted as agreeing

Bowles and Gintis also believe that schools are no longer about the teaching of a subject but the Social Principle or control of the pupils meaning that schools concentrate more on the hidden curriculum than the knowledge process. Equally, schools don’t reward independence and innovation, therefore meritocracy cannot exist within our capitalist society as capitalism is based on the principle of a ruling class (the bourgeosis) and a working class (the proletariat) and meritocracy would abolish the idea of the ruling class, society would be equal. According to Louis Althusser (1972), a French Marxist philosopher, the school serves to mould individuals into subjects that fit with the requirements of capitalism, they learn submission, deference and respect for the economy and their place in it. The school also works to ensure that the labour force is technically competent. Also, according to Althusser, the ruling class within any society exercises control over and through schooling and the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs). The ideologies themselves express the material interests of the ruling class, so this control over and through the ISAs maintains what is called class hegemony, or domination. Althusser is also draws attention to the powerful effects of the ‘hidden curriculum’ of

“The Breakfast Club” characterizes this phenomena by depicting the “jock, the brain, the basketcase, the princess, and the juvenile delinquent”. In the movie each character is representative of the social class to which they belong. The “jock” signifies the sports star that can do no wrong, but the movie character bullies another boy and when caught all he received was detention. Although on the other hand the delinquent who is a dope smoking, foul mouthed punk, received the same punishment for talking back to a teacher. Administrators and teachers are very quick to meet out severe punishment to those students that they have deemed worthless, while good kids get a slap on the wrist. The movie’s jock is placed in Saturday detention, instead of being suspended, so that he may wrestle in an upcoming tournament; a case in which Hollywood makes an accurate depiction. This is the “holding of power” that Wehlage and Rutter spoke about in their study, High School and Beyond. Students who receive better treatment seem to do better in school when subjected to “an orderly environment, a committed and caring faculty, and an emphasis on academic pursuits”(Nieto,100).

In “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education,” from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Revised Edition, Paulo Freire discusses two different types of education: “banking” and problem-posing. The banking concept of education is when teachers “make deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat” (318), and ‘problem posing’ is when the teachers and students are equal. Instead of being treated as human beings that have their own thoughts and ideas, students are treated as containers that are simply filled by a powerful being, a teacher. In school, teachers are dominants that provide knowledge to the students, the subordinates; the knowledge that students learn are limited to what they’re taught by teachers. Similarly, in Kurt Wimmer’s ‘Equilibrium’, Librians are treated as reservoirs for knowledge.