Talk Point # 8: Anyon

“In a sense, some whole schools are on the vocational education track, while others are geared to produce future doctors, lawyers, and business leaders.”

This quote stuck out to me, because I never really thought of schools in this aspect. When I was in high school I went to learn and to get into a good college was a college preparatory school which is what it was geared towards. Some students go to a vocational high school to learn about a particular trait. I never thought about how I choose to go to a high school that would prepare me for college. I just went and that was it. Some students choose to go a completely different route and go for completely different reasons.

"In the middle-class school, work is getting the right answer. If one accumulates enough right answers, one gets a good grade."

I choose this quote, because it is not something I agree with. I do not think school should be all about grades. I think that learning is a process and it is sometimes tedious. Teachers assign tests, students study, and regurgitate the information back. They sometimes learn it only for that particular test and later forget it and that is not what learning is about. Unfortunately, school is based on right and wrong answers and good grades and bad grades.

“Work tasks do not usually request creativity. Serious attention is rarely given in school work on how the children develop or express their own feelings and ideas, either linguistically or in graphic form. On the occasions when creativity or self-expression is requested, it is peripheral to the main activity or it is "enriched" or "for fun."

I believe that creativity should be incorporated into every aspect of school work. It does help to make things enriched and fun, so why not incorporate into all aspects. It also helps student to develop and is positive for students in many different ways.

I found this article to be very interesting and informing. It is interesting to see how different environments learn and how different schools have different goals from one another. Some are geared towards being career oriented and teaching a particular trait to their students while others are geared for preparing students for college. Also, different teachers have different practices when it comes to teaching their students. All teachers teach differently, causing students to learn different things.