#45

After reading the small article that compares both Hirsch and Sizer's theories on education, realized that both these guys are to thank for some sort of form of our education. Which even though most people would say differ, really dont.

Ok, so technically they are different Sizer says "Students should leave school as well-informed skeptics, able to ask good questions as a matter of habit" while Hirsch says "Students should be able to read and know the basic number facts by the end of the first grade" This shows us that not only do the focuses on different grade leves in school "Hirsch worries motly about elementary schools, while Sizer about high schools" but they focuse on different ways of learning, different parts that make a school good.

With this in mind though we can agree that both Sizer and Hirsch goal was just to make education better, the way THEY saw that it would be able to help us grow as students. This is something I believe they have in common, that "drive" to sorta make a difference.This shows us that though these theories arent like two peas in a pod (alike in anyway), they can be like strawberries and cherries (both rich in color and flavor) lol.

Based on my experience in S.O.F i would say Sizers theory does help us think better, use our minds and what not, its almost as i said in my last post, we have it within our reach, but we dont grab onto to it, we let it fade into the back , not realizing how helpful it can really be.

hw # 44

Reading Obama's speach was actually touching in a way. The way he speaks sounds so convincing and you get this feeling like everything that he says is either a) right or b) wrong (but sounds right). Everything he says, and the best part is that he tries to relate it all to the young people. He knows which way to set up his words, he stresses to us how important school is and then relates to us and acknowledges that us, as teens go through many things ourselves. Our lives aren't always the easiest, but we have to prosper through all of that, because there's other kids who got the same problems, maybe even worse, and they make the best out of their situation.

He keeps everything as honest with us as he can. Speaking on how we can't rely on being a basketball player. He keeps everything as honest and believable as he can. He gives us some type of hope. Or an emotional boost of some sort, maybe we CAN make a cure for AIDS or Cancer. My favorite part of his speech was when he gave us some "did you know" facts. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." " This literally made me go on my facebook and put in the Michael Jordan quote, and that same day I bragged, acting like I knew random facts and threw in the one about JK Rowling

hw # 42

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