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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Who Are Our Students?

Explaining who our students are in society of the United States can be understood with the word Idiocy. Idiocy can describe the right or wrong way of how or what is the problem when teaching children in school. Put differently, even though "Idiocy" is not meant the exact same way as it once had been, it still has a negative effect in school. In explaining who are our students, we can tie together the faulty notion of what Idiocy has had on these individuals.
Students of all ages, for the first time in Kindergarten, meet diverse races of children and this can either be the crucial point in their lives to be taught the negative effects of Idiocy towards each other. As explained in "Teaching Against Idiocy," written by Walter Parker, is the starting point where children become aware of new, public relations that extend outside their home life. Alexis de Tocqueville talks about students whom lose sight of their own freedom that makes them each an individual. We can analyze his quote from Parker’s text, "These people think they are following the principle of self-interest...the idea they entertain of that principle is a very crude one, the more they look after what they call their own business, they neglect their chief business, which is to remain their own masters" (Parker, 2005). He seems to be speaking of students becoming aware of Idiocy and the fact they are so concerned with taunting towards other students, in light that it will have them socially more accepted by their peers. However, with the consequence of the loss of their "self-interest" which is the freedom of individuality they once had, now is owned by others’ enjoyment. Students can be looked at as Play-Doh, waiting to be molded in any shape by the creator. However, these students, like the dough, can easily harden up without the right care and supervision needed to preserve this delicate material.
In answering the question of who are our students, bases its lessens and preparations of the teachers and parents in order to provide the right environment and social extent of teaching, in problems and scenarios in order to determine who and how are future leaders will develop.

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