Monday, March 22, 2010
45
i think sizer ideas where great and made sense and tried to fit well in to a syteam that sucked. i feel that it does the job but it is not complete freedom. that there is still a control over what the kids learn and how they learn. mean how they learn is good for the materals taht this systeam wants them too. it is revlionary to a shitty systeam. it is like you got a huge rock but this is better way to carry it. but i would rather where there wont be a rock. i feel that there are it is emtionally and intellacally better than the normal systeam.can they work toughter? i feel that one will eat the other or they will stay as a small sizer systeam. i hope schools in the future become free er. my own experican here has been differnt from class to class. some years they are every much remeamber facts and nothing else. some where thinking and involded he student to really think but i remeber more of the remebre facts than any other else which is a shame. i would think there is a better systeam use it why use the one that doesnt go with what the school is about. i mea it is beter why not? i no kathleen did the sizer ways in science class which is hard but it worked. but i think this whole time im learning stuff that i dont care about or i have curoistys with some thing else, i remreber in 7th grade i was really curious about plato it wasnt all that exploered which is a shame as well i think it was better to know that then how the pilgrames got freedom for the 7th time. if i could control my education i think it would be just as meaningfull or more then what i was thought is school for 13 years.
Monday, March 15, 2010
44
this is my college essay thing i did about education. i think it has good points it is really kiss assy and edited by ali jo alot but it is still good and shows my feeling on liberal arts a little.
What does a liberal arts education mean to you? Why do you want to pursue your degree at Eugene Lang College?
My idea of liberal arts is it is more general and it is not specialize people to a certain type skill or education, but liberal arts focuses more on developing the thinking and intellectual processes of students. To me this is not becoming a robot programed to do one thing to instead take what I learn and not just use it in the work place but also in my day to day living. I feel liberal arts is real learning. many other forms of eduction teach how to regurgitate things said to you before. I don"t want that, that is not in anyway an education but a new program. So when your asked a question all you have to do is remember that information. Liberal arts teaches how to think and in many way forces you to think which is something many schools from k to 12 do not teach. Education should focus more on intellectual thinking and not the "save this in your hard drive!" attitude that education has had for now. there is a quote that I think sums it up "You have nothing to say and no way to say it but you can say it in three languages." Liberal art I think breaks this and allows students the opportunity to learn many things about not only the world but ourselves. The point is that they will have some thing to say and not just throw up information. Eugene Lang will be the place where I will learn how to think and to say some thing that I thought of and to say it, share it and probably have with other people doing the same thing and learning from them. In a small class and sharing a room with them for while I'd like to see who they are and what they think. many schools do not have that intimacy and it is almost privilege to know who you are sitting next to they probably have great things to say. Most schools there is a disconnect with other students and it is like they are alienating people which is an environment I do not want to be in or take part in.
Thinking is some thing seldom done that I know Eugene Lang teaches how to think in an environment where you know who is talking and who is who. Really I would matter in the class I wouldn't be another person just sitting there I would be part of some thing and what I would say some thing that would affect the class. This is such a great thing because I think that many people feel so unimportant and insignificant (I do too) that having this where people would listen to them I can't pass that up. This is some thing I would love and I know I will flourish in this environment.
even though i say alot of good things about it i still feel a school is a school it is trying to change some thing a little when there is a really big problem. if they really wanted to get a new kind or a better type of education shouldnt it be better to get the school part out. not haveing an instiuion that is run like ti was 100 years ago . like no matter how deep you are in a lake your still wett liberal arts is near the surface but it is wet . to leave this lake of schooling and beocme dry of it you need to leave the lake out right. i feel schooling is not true education. educaion means "the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life." schooling isnt learning but instilliing nothing but temporaly facts.
What does a liberal arts education mean to you? Why do you want to pursue your degree at Eugene Lang College?
My idea of liberal arts is it is more general and it is not specialize people to a certain type skill or education, but liberal arts focuses more on developing the thinking and intellectual processes of students. To me this is not becoming a robot programed to do one thing to instead take what I learn and not just use it in the work place but also in my day to day living. I feel liberal arts is real learning. many other forms of eduction teach how to regurgitate things said to you before. I don"t want that, that is not in anyway an education but a new program. So when your asked a question all you have to do is remember that information. Liberal arts teaches how to think and in many way forces you to think which is something many schools from k to 12 do not teach. Education should focus more on intellectual thinking and not the "save this in your hard drive!" attitude that education has had for now. there is a quote that I think sums it up "You have nothing to say and no way to say it but you can say it in three languages." Liberal art I think breaks this and allows students the opportunity to learn many things about not only the world but ourselves. The point is that they will have some thing to say and not just throw up information. Eugene Lang will be the place where I will learn how to think and to say some thing that I thought of and to say it, share it and probably have with other people doing the same thing and learning from them. In a small class and sharing a room with them for while I'd like to see who they are and what they think. many schools do not have that intimacy and it is almost privilege to know who you are sitting next to they probably have great things to say. Most schools there is a disconnect with other students and it is like they are alienating people which is an environment I do not want to be in or take part in.
Thinking is some thing seldom done that I know Eugene Lang teaches how to think in an environment where you know who is talking and who is who. Really I would matter in the class I wouldn't be another person just sitting there I would be part of some thing and what I would say some thing that would affect the class. This is such a great thing because I think that many people feel so unimportant and insignificant (I do too) that having this where people would listen to them I can't pass that up. This is some thing I would love and I know I will flourish in this environment.
even though i say alot of good things about it i still feel a school is a school it is trying to change some thing a little when there is a really big problem. if they really wanted to get a new kind or a better type of education shouldnt it be better to get the school part out. not haveing an instiuion that is run like ti was 100 years ago . like no matter how deep you are in a lake your still wett liberal arts is near the surface but it is wet . to leave this lake of schooling and beocme dry of it you need to leave the lake out right. i feel schooling is not true education. educaion means "the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life." schooling isnt learning but instilliing nothing but temporaly facts.
Monday, March 1, 2010
resorces
http://cnx.org/content/m14666/latest/
this here is talking about how school is structuered it says community v.s school as a factory. this i think is great idea but it is hard to imgaine school any other way besides a factory. i think a problem with education is that it is a processing learning. learning is usally some thing personal and intimate andthis is a real preversion to create learning to an alienating process. i think this process is what alentaies poeple from there own curiousty. it is amazing feat i think to destory the curiosty of some one when they just got to a new place or been there for a little while. tehre in a whole new world and some how there cuortist is destroyed. how and why? i heard many teachers say to the class i was in "you guys just dont want to learn." this totally underminds the notion f unscholliung whichc it is a kid driven education where hte child learns what they want to learn. here is there site.
http://www.unschooling.com/
the idea that schooling is suppose to suplement the Curiosity of poeple and not destroy it. and to desoty i thought is a really hard thing from this wiki page on Curiosity even some insects spieces are Curiosity and it is a behorior that it seems all animals have in one stage or another. so to destory this is really i mean thats a huge thing to have peple that would rather watch some one hurt them selves than to learn some thing. and this i see alot with family of mine that live in a place that there was no way for them to have there curoisty dealt with or fed so it shut off. this think leads to alot of the dumb shit we see today. the one acpesct in langunge destoryed i think is the question. i havent heard any one in a while ask a good question that couldnt been solved by looking at it or thinking about it for 2 more seconds. is this a thing school did as well?
for this im thinking of showing convverstion with my cousin ivan and that kid living in my house.
this here is talking about how school is structuered it says community v.s school as a factory. this i think is great idea but it is hard to imgaine school any other way besides a factory. i think a problem with education is that it is a processing learning. learning is usally some thing personal and intimate andthis is a real preversion to create learning to an alienating process. i think this process is what alentaies poeple from there own curiousty. it is amazing feat i think to destory the curiosty of some one when they just got to a new place or been there for a little while. tehre in a whole new world and some how there cuortist is destroyed. how and why? i heard many teachers say to the class i was in "you guys just dont want to learn." this totally underminds the notion f unscholliung whichc it is a kid driven education where hte child learns what they want to learn. here is there site.
http://www.unschooling.com/
the idea that schooling is suppose to suplement the Curiosity of poeple and not destroy it. and to desoty i thought is a really hard thing from this wiki page on Curiosity even some insects spieces are Curiosity and it is a behorior that it seems all animals have in one stage or another. so to destory this is really i mean thats a huge thing to have peple that would rather watch some one hurt them selves than to learn some thing. and this i see alot with family of mine that live in a place that there was no way for them to have there curoisty dealt with or fed so it shut off. this think leads to alot of the dumb shit we see today. the one acpesct in langunge destoryed i think is the question. i havent heard any one in a while ask a good question that couldnt been solved by looking at it or thinking about it for 2 more seconds. is this a thing school did as well?
for this im thinking of showing convverstion with my cousin ivan and that kid living in my house.
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