Teaching and Idiocy

Carmen Gloria Catania
Dr. Goldstein R.
CURR 201-04
10/16/2007
"Do schools marshal their human and material resources to produce idiots or citizens?"
School has an important role that will build the minds of future citizens or as Parker W. writes, in "Teaching Against Idiocy", idiots. Teachers have a bigger role towards the students beside teach different subjects that will help the students once are done with school to get ready for the real life.
The power that education has in the students is bigger than people think. Teachers need to act with care and paying attention of what they do and say because kids will copy they action and mentality especially things that teachers didn’t mean to teach.
Students are the reflection of the teacher and of what they been taught in class is going come out outside, is going to influence them in their social life outside the school.
Schools gives the chance to become someone either someone good or someone bad.
Ideas, mentality that kids learn in class will be used outside the class, the human been since students
It’s really important notice how strong is the power of education, what professors should teach and shouldn’t teach, you don’t want students get wrong ideas maybe different ideas that you are trying to teach and/ or different from what they are learning in their homes.
The influence of a professor is important the professor need to be careful of what he is doing and saying. How far can a professor go?
Schools shouldn’t make the mistake to just feed information, ideas and mentality without giving a justification and a motivation to it. Does the school create future citizens or future robots with feeding information and mentality? DO schools make students be themself and follow their inspiration or they stopped to follow a specific direction? Schools need to create people with a open mind and learn to collaborate and find the best solution in everything.
School has an important and delicate role: Schools sharps minds and build the minds of the kids that are going to be the people of the future. People that will decide to for us and we better hope that we can depend on them/ they will take care of us.
Same understanding vs. Different ones, there is a big variety of students, students from around the world are present in school of U.S. today. Is it better to separate students into groups with people of the same characteristics as suggest in the reading or try to learn more about a student with different background can help to get students ready when they are going to be in the real world full of diversity of cultures?
This is when democracy comes in democracy is live together with other people and work together to the only the best solution for the community, country, planet. If wrong up people today don’t feel comfortable to work with other cultures and seems that they don’t meet an agreement id because their schools didn’t teach them.
What happen into the school, in the house and streets are connect so the power of education needs to remind that what will happen do and say a teacher will be a role model for the kids, the same kids that hoping one day are going to be citizens and not idiots.