Good Discussion...now about curiosity...

Good discussion yesterday morning about our friend, Ralph Waldo and his ideas about education.  We stayed on track - looking at tone, sentence structure, pronoun usage - until we digressed. 

Sorry about that.

So if I am paraphrasing correctly, this is some of what I heard:

School + Lack of Curiosity = BOR-RING

Am I on the right track?

Teachers must take responsibility for squelching some of the curiosity each of you had in your little five-year-old selves. The system, I would argue, must also take some responsibility because putting kids through "mass production" education is cost efficient, yes, but is it really a savings we can afford?  Students should also take some responsibility because those who find a connection to the subject matter will be engaged in learning.

A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
Smiley Blanton

And there is a very cool poem I'd like you to read called Curiosity by Alistair Reid.  Read it a couple of times.

See what I mean?

Now, about today's class.  I promised I would provide the link to the post Race ya. in case you want to share it with friends, frenemies, or foes.  Maybe you want to write your own post about race, race relations, and racism, and want to link to it.

I appreciate your ability to talk about the techniques and rhetorical devices she used in her post as well as the dialogue we had about her subject matter.  Good job.