Lavender's AP Lit Class Blog
Thursday, September 16, 2010
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My essay will consist of 3 parts. In the first I will talk about how Emerson believes first hand learning to be the best and that teachers can only tell you about thing they can’t make you understand of experience these things on your own just from them telling you about it. In the second I will discus how school sucks and it’s not us learning anything. It’s simply us being told about the experiences of others. To really learn and understand we must experience things for ourselves. Sitting in a plastic chair is not learning, being outside, and firsthand learning will teach kids everything they need to know. The third part will be about authentic learning. How first hand experiences will benefit children and they will understand things so much more because it will be their own experiences they know about and not that of another.
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I like your thinking...I'd talk about how Emerson believes that going into solitude in nature is the best way to learn. How school's system of learning is based on other people's ideas and accomplishments, I'd also say how society corrupts the mind; kind of like how the child is the most knowledgable of all. Also talk about your personal experience with this theory. Maybe an experience that effected you a lot where you really took something away from.
ReplyDeleteI totaly agree. Things cannot be learnd second hand, but only told. Maby you would talk about how learning from some one can just make it more confusing than experianceing first hand.
ReplyDeleteI think an interesting thing to investigate is the presence of a mentor in firsthand experience, sort of a guided learning, coming to your own conclusion with a motivating mentor/teacher. I think this can be an important kind of experience that you might not have learned without the teacher but you still are doing it first hand for yourself.
ReplyDeleteHannah,
ReplyDeleteBecause we've already discussed your idea, I won't comment at length here except to note (from the comments above) that you seemed to have touched a nerve! I think a lot of your readers are going to be receptive to your argument that learning should be experiential rather than passive, and that teachers should 'provoke' your own interests, rather than 'instruct' what they feel is important. This should be a fun (and interesting) essay--one I'm excited to read!