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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 besides teaching different subjects that will help the students to get ready for the real life once they are done with school.
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 teacher’s action and way to think especially things that teachers don’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 give the chance to students become someone one day and it can be either someone good or someone bad.
Ideas, mentality that kids learn in class will be used outside the class
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 at house.
The influence of a professor is important because students see the teacher as a leader and most of the times they want become just like him/her so the professor need to be careful of what he is doing and saying. We all loved at least one professor that give us inspiration to push harder and believe in ourselves but how far can a professor push his/her students and when should they stop?
Schools shouldn’t make the mistake to just feed information, ideas and mentality without giving a justification and a motivation to it because if it does then school creates would create just robots. So do schools create future citizens or future robots with feeding information and mentality? Do schools make students be themselves 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.
Schools teach kids to stand up for their selves and remember that they have the freedom to speak but teachers should also explain how far a kid can go get what they want and when your rights is not more important that other people right to do and say what they want so learn to live in a community that can be the kindergarten, or high school or you town. Also there is a big variety of students in schools, students that are from around the world are present in school of U.S. today so kids need to respect and understand the differences of lifestyle and do not marginalized kids just because they have different color skin or a different eye shape. Is it better to separate students into groups with people of the same characteristics 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.