Saturday, September 14, 2013

Part 3



              This is our education and our country’s future depends on us. Our country’s unemployment rate will increase when students are not getting any careers from the lack of knowledge due to the lack of attention being paid to them from their teachers and their voices not being heard. These students are not getting the sufficient teachings in their life to be able to have a successful future.  They are confused and outcast in the way that they do not understand the material or they are not being understood themselves by their superiors in their education. Students may feel like they are not important and they feel left out, therefore their passion dies and they stop trying. Their pedestal: the school, teachers, etc., are no longer holding them up in their education. In fact, they are letting them down.
            The percentage of school dropouts will increase. What is there left in a student’s education when they’ve lost passion? At some point school staff and authority must realize that its not the students to blame for, but the teachers for their lack of attention and passion in a students voice. A student’s voice is like music to lyrics. They keep schools up and running. I mean that’s what it’s all about right? Student’s speak up and participate in debates and discussion and then teachers take that advice and weave it into a classroom’s environment, discussions, and lectures. Just like in Thoreau’s article called ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE, he mentions, “Action from principle, - the perception and performance of right, - changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary,” (11). A student’s voice helps improve a teacher’s practice. Teacher’s become more involved and students do too. It is the revolution of students’ voice fighting to be heard. The percentage of school dropouts wouldn’t increase so much if students were to have a moment dedicated to their voices being heard.           
              Teacher practice will not improve. If a teacher will not honor their students’ voice then why should their students listen to what their teacher has to say? When a teacher does not take the time to listen to the opinions and thought of a student, you can’t expect them to change or improve their teachings. In relation to the quote from Thoreau’s article, where he mentions, “The standing army is only an arm of the standing government,” (3). I take it as a student’s voice being the body of schools and the education that goes in it. It is very important for a student’s voice to be honored and taken as an important piece of the puzzle, especially for a teacher's sake, because without this feedback from students, teachers will not know how to help students make a better choice or have them participate more in class. Students will lose interest in school and teachers’ practice will not improve.

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