Educating Rita is about a woman who decides that she would like to study at the Open University. Rita’s real name is actually Susan White, but she prefers to go by the name of Rita. Rita is being tutored by a professor named Frank who happens to be an alcoholic who hides his liquor behind his literature. On Rita’s first day with Frank, he arrives late and drunk. They both have a very relaxed attitude towards each other; even exchanging their favorite books with one another. Rita would like to learn about literature and art and Frank would like to use the money she is giving him to pay for his alcohol so they both agree on keeping in touch with each other, despite the fact that Frank insists that she get a different tutor. Rita eventually explains to Frank that she used to have the mentality that education was unimportant and useless and recently her views upon that have changed. This is why she decides to go to Frank in the first place. She wants to receive good scores on her final exams and Frank is supposed to help her better her essay writing skills. She is already the better student because of this. She already has a strong desire to learn and better herself and her exam scores. At the beginning of the play, Rita was very casual in her analysis of novels. Frank had read Rubyfruit Jungle and gives his views on it, telling Rita the proper way to analyze and criticize a novel. Rita had read Howards End and simply stated that her only thoughts on it was that it “was crap.” because the author, Foster, was only concerned with the rich and not the poor. Frank is a bit appalled by Rita’s analysis because she took it too literally and did not think about it analytically. He tells her that she will have to become more disciplined in... ... middle of paper ... ...h it because Rita’s writing style is no longer found in it. This is when Rita becomes jaded with Frank as well. She begins to think that he doesn’t want the best for her, but the best for him and this makes her a good student. She is becoming aware of those around her and is considering her own life choices and making her own decisions. She has begun to take hold of her own life and better her own self not by using Frank, but by using herself. By the end of the play, Rita has passed her exams and she and Frank go their separate ways. Rita has not only gained a new sense of self, but has also gained the knowledge needed to pass her exams. This is why Rita is a better student than Frank. Rita takes away both knowledge and experience whereas Frank only takes away experience. To be a better student, one must acquire both knowledge and wits and Rita has done just that.
In Subtractive Schooling: US-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring, Angela Valenzuela investigates immigrant and Mexican American experiences in education. Valenzuela mentions differences in high schools between U.S born youth and immigrants such as how immigrants she interviewed seemed to achieve in school as they feel privileged to achieve secondary education. However, she found that her study provided evidence of student failure due to schools subtracting resources from these youths. Both are plagued by stereotypes of lacking intellectual and linguistic traits along with the fear of losing their culture. As a Mexican American with many family members who immigrated to the U.S to pursue a higher education, I have experience with Valenzuela’s
Barbara also uses a heavy hand with the allusions in this section – “The whole thing would be a lot easier if I could just skate through it like Lily Tomlin in one of her waitressing skits, but I was raised by the absurd Booker T. Washingtonian precept that says: If you’re going to do something, do it well.” She tries to establish an emotional connection with the reader – it might have worked on me if I knew who Lily Tomlin was, though understandably she wrote this novel for a different age set – that explains a part of her good character. She shows ...
Solnit transforms the concrete idea of the schooling system into a concept focused mainly on the well-being of the student and the non-academic growth they experience. She expresses her belief that it’s a place of learning to conform or taking punishment and “one that can flatten out your soul or estrange you from it.” This abstract concept allows readers to have a much more moving response,
Reverend Ambrose is a man of great faith and devotion to his people including Grant. As Grant is grading papers one day is his room Aunt Tante Lou announced that Reverend Ambrose Wishes to speak to him. As Grant allows Reverend to enter, Reverend begins debating the role of education. Grant states, that the purpose of teaching is for money and to refrain from Poverty. Reverend Ambrose responds with saying, that education is an opportunity to gain knowledge, and that with knowledge you can be able to help others in need. Grants Short tempered brings the conversation to a screeching halt stating "I went to college, and I have a college degree." Reverend replies with "But what did you learn" Reverend sees that Grant is an educated man, but he also sees how he use his gift. Grant Doesn 't use his gifts to enrich and uplift until the end where you see how he changes his ways and focuses more on others than himself. While Grant displays more compassion towards the end of the novel he also displays how much respect and honor he has for Reverend fro changing his life for the
Frank is constantly doubting himself and life because of the elusiveness of happiness for example, “ Is life itself an illness or a syndrome? Who knows? We’ve all felt that way I’m confident, since there’s no way I could feel what hundreds of millions of other citizens haven’t” (p. 135). Frank finds an opportunity to travel to Florida to find Walter’s daughter as he told him in a letter. After staying there for a couple days, Frank finds peace in Florida and decides to stay there in order to start a new life and forget all the troubles back home. Towards the end of the novel, it shoes how the death of Walter changes the way Frank acts and saves his own life.
He starts to really care for Dwayne because they both have depression in common. At one point in the movie, Frank and Dwayne were having a conversation and Dwayne mentioned he wished he could sleep till he was 18 so he could skip all the bad parts of high school. Frank then quotes a French writer, “When it gets down to the end of your life and you look back at all those years that you suffered, you will realize those were the best years of your life because they made you into the strong person you are now”. Frank and Dwayne then continued to talk about the struggles of life. Is seems to me the way Frank can reflection on his own depression can really help others. It shows that he understands what he did and that he will handle it differently next time. There were no blatant biological and psychological stressors that influenced Frank’s depression. There was no indication of past family medical problems that would have made him susceptible but according to Beck’s therapy Frank probably inherited a genetic disposition that made him susceptible to depression. If Frank wasn’t predisposed, he could have handled all of the bad events without getting mad and impulsive. He could have had a positive outlook instead of going into deep depression and trying to kill himself. The social-cultural/environmental stressors were the primary influences that cause his depression. He believed he was a full grown adult and was supposed to have his life together but it was the complete opposite. He had a romantic failure, a career disappointment, he lost his job, his homosexuality stigma, and then he lost his apartment. For most of the movie he was handling his depression really well, but it wasn’t until he ran into is ex-student/lover that his improved mood started to spiral back downward into a depressed mood. This showed he still has
My first reason for agreeing with Ann Frank is that people will often help others, even in the worst conditions and even if they put themselves at risk. For example, Meip, an employee of Anne’s father, was very willing to help hide the Franks and their friends in the secret annex of Mr. Frank’s company. Miep was very helpful, because she brought food and clothes and all kinds of stuff that the people in the hiding place needed, although she would’ve been sent to a concentration camp herself if she had been caught. Miep helped the Franks because she knew that it was the right thing to do and she hated the Nazis and what they were doing. A quote from the play that shows how committed Meip was to helping the Franks was when Anne said, “At least we know that Miep and Mr. Kraler are down there ...
Herr and Paolo Freire are both influential philosophical authors who understand have somehow looked beyond the lines when it comes to education. Herr has learned more through personal experience while Freire hasn’t exactly discussed how he as acquired such knowledge, but is on the right track because he has similar attributes to Herr. This is why there are little stakes between choosing a theory over the other. However, there are some. While choosing Herr over Freire, students will have more of a wide-broad selection of freedom to explore the greatest depths of their imagination to become successful. However, not every student would be able to handle this well like Herr did in his college experience. If you were to choose Freire over Herr, The student and the teacher would be both in a mutual atmosphere while becoming successful. The student would be able to move on in the world knowing the he/she is not the only one being mentally aided through their college
...away with the negatives. Anne said, “We’re not the only people that’ve had to suffer. There’ve always been people that’ve have to…sometimes one race…sometimes another…and yet…” (Goodrich and Hackett 117). The reader is amused with the way that Anne keeps her composure and a positive outlook throughout one of the most horrendous times in this world’s history. Anne contained the endurance and willpower to kept striving to freedom. Anne Frank withheld a special characteristic that no one could take away from her, and that is why Anne Frank is who she is now. Anne set a standard to young women to show that they can be courageous and strong like her, and to have a bright spirit even when you are at your lowest. Anne set the example to show that whether you are a girl or boy, old or young, you can be brave, and you can push through tough times with a little help of hope.
For this assignment, I completed a survey to assess my school’s literacy program by using a survey that was adapted from by Patty, Maschoff, & Ransom (1996) to analyze the instructional program and the school’s infrastructure. To be able to answer my survey, I needed to go colleagues of mine in the English Department and to my administration to help with these questions. Being a math teacher, we hardly ever discuss the literacy and the students’ acquisition of it in our department meeting during staff development days. Since I am not truly current with literacy acquisition in education, I am hoping to understand more from this process so I can help all my students. I want them to be able to read texts related to math and find information that will be useful to them during the year.
... is reminiscing about the fact that she messed up and it cost the boy’s life. The overall tone in the end of the novel is depressing as the governess’s actions and attitudes about current events tend to reflect the tone of the situation.
Teachers help us expand and open our mind by giving us skills throughout students’ early life to help students when they are older. By learning information from teachers, students become better people, in a couple of ways. Besides inquiring knowledge from their teachers, students learn to work with one another, open their mind to other peoples’ thoughts and ideas, respect one another, and learn different techniques for life’s issues.
Philip is not fond of his English teacher, Miss Margaret Narwin. He does not like her at all and thinks she is the meanest and dumbest teacher in the world. She always gets on his nerves. She wrote a letter to her sister, Anita, and told her that she liked Philip. She said he was intelligent and that he had potential, but he irritated her because he did not have the desire to learn. Philip studied for his winter term exams but did not bother to study for his English
Reading a novel is an active experience. Opinions are formed and changed during the course of a plot. Not knowing what is going to happen next, or what is lurking around the corner, can provide the same sort of fear in a novel that is present in a scary movie. Brown's use of first person narration may have exposed some bad judgement in the characters, especially Clara. Her ever-changing views and assessments of Carwin, however, play a large part in maintaining the suspense of the story. It is the use of first person narration that allows us to see Clara's judgement of Carwin for what it is, without the help of an omniscient narrator. As a result, the story is able to capture our attention and instill us with fear.
Inclusively, the relationship between knowledge and education is dependent on the way of the process as a whole. If education is implemented as dull and uninteresting, true learning is not happening. This passage by Davidson introduces the problems the education system faces with their methods of teaching, provides an explanation on how it came to be that way, and offers a solution to improve the system by conducting an experiment. Throughout this analysis, it is clear that knowledge and education are not the same but can depend on each other if processed