Quotes

Education is Politics

Author: Ira Shor

1. The heart of the problem is that teachers are taught to lecture and give orders. These old habits have been overcome by many creative and democratic teachers now practicing in the classroom, but the change is not easy. 

• I chose this quote because it reminds me of when I was in middle or high school and all my teachers did was lecture me. I would sit in a class and listen to teachers go over assignments or talk about our next topic in class and never give students a chance to discuss what they learned. However in my PE classes here at RIC it is different because I have 90 minutes classes and I would say about 45 minutes of the class is lecture, and the rest of the time is group discussions or activities throughout the class. I feel like these teaching techniques are better because students will enjoy the class more. 

1. In sum, the subject matter, the learning process, the classroom discourse, the cafeteria menu, the governance structure, and the environment of school teach students what kind of people to be and what kind of society to build as they learn math, history, biology, literature, nursing, or accounting. 

• I chose this quote because I felt like this quote is explaining how everything just comes back to politics, basically the importance if politics. Also how the environment that the students are in chooses their path of education. I felt lie this somewhat related to when i was growing up and when I was in high school. The things I did in school made me the person I am today and also pushed me to go to college. Also playing basketball for high school I was able to learn how to be a leader and stay focused. 

Check out this Website about Lecture VS Teaching. 

Talking Point: Why are teachers taught to just lecture students and give orders, rather than teach?