In her
book Teaching Critical Thinking, Bell Hook states “Sadly,
children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that
seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.” (8)
Paolo
Freire states in his article The Banking Concept of Education, “The
educated man is the adapted man, because he is better ‘fit’ for the world.”
Quoting W.E.B. Du Bois,
Keith Gilyard writes, “The effect of all true education is not only a gaining
of some practical means of helping present life, but the making of present life
mean more than it meant before.”
In the movie Chalk,
Mr. Stroope, a brand new and unconfident teacher, bluntly tells two
students to stop being as smart as him.
John Gatto states in his
article Against School, We could encourage the
best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity
for surprising insight - simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and
tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each
student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and
then.”
Works
Cited
hooks, bell. Teaching Critical Thinking:
Practical Wisdom. “Critical
Thinking” 8. Print.
Freire, Paolo. "The
Banking Concept of Education." Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Chapter
2. 1970. Print
Gilyard, Keith. "Children,
Arts, and Du Bois." National Council of Teachers and English.
September 2012. Print.
Chalk. Dir. Mike Akel. Perf. Chris
Mass. SomeDaySoon Production, 2006. DVD
Gatto, John. “Against School: How public education cripples our kids, and why” Harper’s Magazine. September, 2003.
Web.
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