Arts High School

I thought that this school was very interesting. It was definitely a great experience to go there and just listen to the people who spoke to us and also the kids who took us around the school. If and when I graduate Arts High would be one of the schools on the top of my list to teach at in an inner city area. It seemed like the kids had fun while in class and the other teachers that we saw and talked to were all very nice and really seemed like they cared about the kids in their classes. The opportunities that can come for these kids are tremendous. If I get the chance to student teach there I would take it in an instant

Inquiry Project

The project itself looks difficult, but I think once I actually sit down and get to it, it will be a lot easier. The researching part might be hard at times but other times might be as easy as just looking around. The length of the paper I don't think will be that much of a problem even though most students would complain that 8-10 pages is way to long. If you get the right information and actually sit down and think about it hard 8-10 pages will be really easy. I think the most difficult part of the Inquiry Project will be answering the one of the four Essential Questions from the syllabus.

Idiocy Revised

Teaching Against Idiocy

Question: What roles should schools and schooling play bin the United States?

The quote I chose from Walter C. Parker, Teaching Against Idiocy is, “An idiot is one whose self-centeredness undermines his or her citizen identity, causing it to wither or never to take root in the first place. Private gain is the goal, and the community had better not get in the way. An idiot is suicidal in a certain way, definitely self-defeating, for the idiot does not know that privacy and individual autonomy are entirely dependent on the community. As Aristotle wrote, Individuals are so many parts all equally depending on the whole which alone can bring self-sufficiency. Idiots do not take part in public life; they do not have a public life. In this sense, idiots are immature in the most fundamental way. Their lives are out of balance, disoriented, untethered, and unrealized. Tragically, idiots have not yet met the challenge of “puberty”, which is the transition to public life” (2005, pg344).

Schools today play a huge role in children and introducing them into different situations. One example is that schools are integrated and now children are faced with children from different races. They also learn how to think for themselves when they are in school through different classes and different types of work. From reading this article it comes off to me that Walter C. Parker thinks that the schools raise the child into puberty. I do not agree at all with this statement by Parker. I think it is the parents that nurture the child into puberty and the schools are just there when they are getting an education. The transition to public life does not have anything to do with the so-called “puberty” he is talking about. Idiots do take part in public life even if they are challenged in their own ways. But they mature over time and even if it takes years they are still considered part of the public life whether you like it or not.

Aristotle states that, “Compared to home life, schools are like village squares, cities, crossroads, meeting places, community centers, and market places” (Aristotle in Parker, 2005, pg348). I do not agree with this little thing he says. School is nothing like village squares or even market places. School is where the children learn things for them to get jobs later in their life. A village or market place cannot teach children these skills that they are learning in schools. Therefore the idiocy is in the quote is where Aristotle said that.

Teaching Against Idiocy

Teaching Against Idiocy

Question: What roles should schools and schooling play bin the United States?

The quote I chose from Walter C. Parker, Teaching Against Idiocy is, “An idiot is one whose self-centeredness undermines his or her citizen identity, causing it to wither or never to take root in the first place. Private gain is the goal, and the community had better not get in the way. An idiot is suicidal in a certain way, definitely self-defeating, for the idiot does not know that privacy and individual autonomy are entirely dependent on the community. As Aristotle wrote, Individuals are so many parts all equally depending on the whole which alone can bring self-sufficiency. Idiots do not take part in public life; they do not have a public life. In this sense, idiots are immature in the most fundamental way. Their lives are out of balance, disoriented, untethered, and unrealized. Tragically, idiots have not yet met the challenge of “puberty”, which is the transition to public life.”

Schools today play a huge role in children and introducing them into different situations. One example is that schools are integrated and now children are faced with children from different races. They also learn how to think for themselves when they are in school through different classes and different types of work. From reading this article it comes off to me that Walter C. Parker thinks that the schools raise the child into puberty. I do not agree at all with this I think it is the parents the nurture the child into puberty and the schools just there when they are getting an education. The transition to public life does not have anything to do with the so-called “puberty” he is talking about. Idiots do take part in public life even if they are challenged in their own ways. But they mature over time and even if it takes years they are still considered part of the public life whether you like it or not.

Compared to home life, schools are like village squares, cities, crossroads, meeting places, community centers, market places.” I do not agree with this little thing he says. School is nothing like village squares or even market places. School is where the children learn things for them to get jobs later in their life. A village or market place cannot teach children these skills that they are learning in schools. Therefore the idiocy is in the quote where Aristotle said that.