Haemenschwiler Analysis

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We all understand that there is may ways to go about teaching and it just so happens that sometimes people but-heads about it. There are two ways that people feel very strong about. One being, that children should to have their self confidence broken from such a young age but instead, be in charge of their own education (the institutions should change). While the other is, basically, we are here to learn, just finish it and be done (the kids should put up with it). Obviously these are two very different views, so lets talk about it. On the paper by Eggenschwiler, she states that “We need to stamp out this troubling, reverberating question by revealing it for what it is — a cynical attempt to control what can’t be controlled and to hide from …show more content…

Many people for years have been saying that our school system needs to change because our world is changing, not everything is set and stone anymore. The paper also by Andrews supports this in a way. Oltermanns paper makes great points to todays world, like how “Nothing motivates students more than when they discover the meaning behind a subject of their own accord,” because I today's society, we are scolded if we do not get good grades, and understand exactly how and what the professor is teaching. But in this form of teaching, Rasfeld ideas could spread everywhere. There is great success backing up his ways for the adults of the future. “In education, you can only create change from the bottom – if the orders come from the top, schools will resist. Ministries are like giant oil tankers: it takes a long time to turn them around. What we need is lots of little speedboats to show you can do things differently.” The other two papers by Andrews and Gutting are similar in the fact that yes college is important, but you have to take it seriously and so do the professors. You're learning many new things being o your own, but the primary reason you are there is for your education, yet so many people said when they left college that they learned things one a personal level more then educational. Which I can see being true. There are many things wrong with the education systems but we still need to

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