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Nicole Pickering
Education is Politics
Ira Shor

1. "He urged teachers to encourage students to question their experience in school: ‘You must arouse children's curiosity and maker them think about school."
     1. Once i saw this quote, I knew I had to make a comment about it. I feel that this quote is very important. Teachers must always encourage students to question what is going on because if that does not happen, teachers will not know if they are doing the right things. They will not know if they are providing students with the proper education. It is very important to have cooperation between students and teachers these days. Without it, there will not be any progress. When students think about school, they will be able to realize what needs to be fixed and what is getting done properly.

2. "To socialize students, education tries to teach them the shape of knowledge and current society, the meaning of past events, the possibilities for the future, and their place in the world they live in."
     1. I found this quote also very important. By being in school, students gain a lot. Education helps shape a students life and future. Many students figure out who they really are by being in school, and that is very important. If nobody knows who they really are, then how are they going to know what they want to do with their life? Learning about past and current events is also very important because students need to realize what important things happened back then, but they also need to reailze what is going on in current time so maybe they could understand what could be done to fix it.

3. "The teacher is the person who mediates the relationship between outside authorities, formal knowledge, and individual students in the classroom.”
     1. Being the teacher of a classroom is extremely important. You have to know what to do and what not to do at certain times. They have to know that each and every student is different in their own way, so getting to know the students is very important. It is very important for a teacher to balance the aspects of mediating relationships between outside authorities, formal knowledge, and individual students in the classroom. If a teacher spends too much time on one of these aspects, there is a good change that interest will be lost in the other two. This is the reason why teachers have to make it so material in the classroom is learned at a decent pace. It can't be learned too fast because some students will get confused, and it can not be learned too slowly either because other students will feel as though they know the material so they will stop caring.


I really enjoyed reading this article. It caught my interest really fast. Having a cooperative teacher/student realtionship is very important. That is how trust is built. This article can also relate to  our FNED class because we always have class discussions and I feel those are very helpful to a lot of the students in the class, including myself. Recieving input from teachers as well as receiving input from students is very important and can make things go a lot smoother in the classroom. Students should be able to speak their minds in a classroom without feeling like they shouldn't. I think that if more students had this much freedom in a classroom, the academic system would be so much better than it is now.

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