Early American Education
Early American education was based on the premise of teaching its citizens how to read so that they will be able to read their bibles. To understand why their whole system was based on religion, we have to trace the puritans back to their lineage in England. The puritans were being persecuted in England for their religious practices, they believe that the English church was becoming too politically involved and was not looking out for the moral and religious purity, because of that they flee England to avoid any further persecutions.
They believed the bible was truly the word and laws of god himself and they had to follow these laws to the letter. They were as we may consider extremist in today’s meaning they refer to the bible for every decision and how to raise their children and how to live their everyday lives. So it came as no surprise their main educational goals were to teach others how to read the bible in order to save their souls. Their schools were called Latin grammar schools, because majority of the texts were written in that language. In the Latin grammar school students were thought how to read and write in Latin as well as English, their focus were to prepare their youths to go to college where they would use the Latin they’ve learned during their times in grammar school. The sole purpose of their educational system was to prepare the students to become pastors; this career was the most honorable choice in a town that was so very religious.
Teachers during the puritans’ era were not as professional as the teachers of today, which is because most teachers were not trained in the field, most of them were servants and the rest of them were drunkards, the ones that were the least qualified were the interns to professional teachers. Today we are more advance mathematically, scientifically and socially, today’s teachers has to undergo rigorous training to sustain the educational values of this society. Teachers has to know how to deal with not only diverse personalities of the students, but also their different economic and geographical backgrounds as well as religious affiliations as to not offend other students, which is why religion was taken away from modern educational system. This stops students from being discriminated against because of their religious beliefs, by taken religion out of the schools we made it a safer place, where the main focus is to learn and not theological segregation.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
The World Around Us
After reading this passage suddenly I remembered In 2004 I travelled to Haiti. After being absent for 15 years I thought it was time to take a trip to my native country. When I arrived at the airport after all these years it was just like I've never been there before because everything were different, the people were begging for money, and they tried to take the stuff that I was carried from me because most of them don't have any other way to get money or food. I felt like I was a foreigner in my own country because I never experience anything like that before due to the fact I left Haiti since I was a little girl and it was a terrible experience to see the country in such condition. To me I think sometimes it doesn't matter where one travel to, one can feel unwelcome no matter what; because sometimes it can be the differential of cultures or it can be just because these people wish they were you instead.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Rhetoric and Education
Rhetoric and Education
Rhetoric is one of the oldest forms of educational methods in the ancient world; the practitioners of this form of education are called sophist or orators. Sophists were paid to teach people the oratory or speech, a sophist did not carry texts or teach how to write their whole educational system was done orally, it’s the same as teaching a person how to be a better public speaker to win elections or higher seats in the council by dazzling the audiences with their slick talking and word play. Sophist were brutally criticized by other scholars such as Plato who states that a sophist is more concern with appearance rather than substance in his play called Gorgias, another scholar who did not refer to himself as a scholar stated that a sophist spend their time trying to make a bad idea seem like a good idea, usually to suit their needs. Speech and words are very powerful weapons to a sophist, matter of fact one of secretes’ accuser a man by the name of Lycon who himself was an orator; Socrates used his methods of truth seeking to make a mockery of him. Aristotle was the sophist who discover the topic or its Greek name topoi, topics were use to make better arguments and to give a starting point to a discussion.
The greatest orator was a man by the name of Marcus tullius Cicero, he was the one responsible for what is regarded as the greatest tool to a rhetorician which was called the canon, this consist of invention; which is basically coming up with the idea to be discussed, arrangement; setting the idea in a way it flows well, which will eliminate confusion from the audience, style; how you present the product, it could be hard, sad and even happy, memory; not having to look at the written text every time, you must keep eye contact with the audience, and delivery; speaking the words and making them make sense to the audience to keep their attention.
After Rome fail and the Christians took over, rhetoric underwent many different changes one change was the most significant, traditional rhetoricians did not use text but under the new regime they were not using text books to write down their arguments, St. Augustine was the person who actually saved the rhetoric’s tradition from being erased, he acknowledge the rhetorician could use their style of persuasion to teach the Christian bible to the people.
Rhetoric is one of the oldest forms of educational methods in the ancient world; the practitioners of this form of education are called sophist or orators. Sophists were paid to teach people the oratory or speech, a sophist did not carry texts or teach how to write their whole educational system was done orally, it’s the same as teaching a person how to be a better public speaker to win elections or higher seats in the council by dazzling the audiences with their slick talking and word play. Sophist were brutally criticized by other scholars such as Plato who states that a sophist is more concern with appearance rather than substance in his play called Gorgias, another scholar who did not refer to himself as a scholar stated that a sophist spend their time trying to make a bad idea seem like a good idea, usually to suit their needs. Speech and words are very powerful weapons to a sophist, matter of fact one of secretes’ accuser a man by the name of Lycon who himself was an orator; Socrates used his methods of truth seeking to make a mockery of him. Aristotle was the sophist who discover the topic or its Greek name topoi, topics were use to make better arguments and to give a starting point to a discussion.
The greatest orator was a man by the name of Marcus tullius Cicero, he was the one responsible for what is regarded as the greatest tool to a rhetorician which was called the canon, this consist of invention; which is basically coming up with the idea to be discussed, arrangement; setting the idea in a way it flows well, which will eliminate confusion from the audience, style; how you present the product, it could be hard, sad and even happy, memory; not having to look at the written text every time, you must keep eye contact with the audience, and delivery; speaking the words and making them make sense to the audience to keep their attention.
After Rome fail and the Christians took over, rhetoric underwent many different changes one change was the most significant, traditional rhetoricians did not use text but under the new regime they were not using text books to write down their arguments, St. Augustine was the person who actually saved the rhetoric’s tradition from being erased, he acknowledge the rhetorician could use their style of persuasion to teach the Christian bible to the people.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Embracing our differences
Embracing our differences
I’ve never really encounter nor knew such thing as prejudice existed prior to residing in the United States of America, prior to then I was in Haiti, in Haiti I guess you can say there maybe prejudice but it was not as upfront as it is in America, Haiti is a class society much like the old days of Rome and Greece, where whatever occupation your family were into will also be your profession no matter what, there was no choice, if your father was a shoe shine person, a farmer or even a yardman that is eventually what you will take over doing, majority of the time for the same family he worked for, to me it was a form of slavery.
I grew up in Haiti with maids to do the cooking and cleaning of the house and yardman to take care of the gardening and tend to the animals and farm, I could be wrong in this but I don’t think they were paid for their services, I believe the payment was room and board and food. These people were looked upon as less than human, we were not permitted to speak to them or really interact with them beyond telling them to do something for us, they were not educated and only knew their jobs, I often felt sorry for them, because a lot of them are kind people, they just needed to feed their loved ones, so they take on whatever jobs were available and the humiliation that came with it, that’s just the way it is and they only knew one way of surviving.
The type of prejudice that exist in America is one of the most violent I’ve ever seen in my life, this type is because a person is another color, something that an individual is unable to neither control nor change. There have been so many people killed in the U.S because of racism and anti Semitism that the government had to step in and create the hate crime law, which makes any person killed by another because of their race, religion and sexual preference will be prosecuted and receive full term sentences, these sentences can range from life to the death penalty. Even with these harsh sentences and laws clearly in place, people are still not deterred from committing crimes against a person because of their race, religion and sexual preferences. I believe the one thing we can do is to try to talk it out versus slugging it out.
I’ve never really encounter nor knew such thing as prejudice existed prior to residing in the United States of America, prior to then I was in Haiti, in Haiti I guess you can say there maybe prejudice but it was not as upfront as it is in America, Haiti is a class society much like the old days of Rome and Greece, where whatever occupation your family were into will also be your profession no matter what, there was no choice, if your father was a shoe shine person, a farmer or even a yardman that is eventually what you will take over doing, majority of the time for the same family he worked for, to me it was a form of slavery.
I grew up in Haiti with maids to do the cooking and cleaning of the house and yardman to take care of the gardening and tend to the animals and farm, I could be wrong in this but I don’t think they were paid for their services, I believe the payment was room and board and food. These people were looked upon as less than human, we were not permitted to speak to them or really interact with them beyond telling them to do something for us, they were not educated and only knew their jobs, I often felt sorry for them, because a lot of them are kind people, they just needed to feed their loved ones, so they take on whatever jobs were available and the humiliation that came with it, that’s just the way it is and they only knew one way of surviving.
The type of prejudice that exist in America is one of the most violent I’ve ever seen in my life, this type is because a person is another color, something that an individual is unable to neither control nor change. There have been so many people killed in the U.S because of racism and anti Semitism that the government had to step in and create the hate crime law, which makes any person killed by another because of their race, religion and sexual preference will be prosecuted and receive full term sentences, these sentences can range from life to the death penalty. Even with these harsh sentences and laws clearly in place, people are still not deterred from committing crimes against a person because of their race, religion and sexual preferences. I believe the one thing we can do is to try to talk it out versus slugging it out.
Who Am I?
Who am I?
Even as a young girl I’ve always had a great sense of who I am and what it is I in life I wanted, from the type of guy I wanted to marry, I never let anyone tell me anything negative or positive about Michelle, my self esteem and self worth had always been high. I grew up in a loving two parent home and my siblings and I have always been happy, even though we lived in Haiti my parents were well off, we traveled back and forth from Haiti to Canada on missionary work, I’ve always pride myself in the good works of my parents and I. even though my self-esteem was high, I never had to put anyone down to feel good about myself, rather the opposite I would help lift their spirits because if I were to put someone down then I would feel bad about it and just the fact of looking at them hurt because of something I said would be devastating to me, no matter what negative propaganda was said about me for some reason never effect me in anyway, that is because I always believe that people will always talk about you and call you names but it’s what you believe about yourself and what you answer to that matters.
I watch a lot of infomercials about diet fads and exercise craze, these images of those perfectly toned models portrays a negative body image on the young people watching them, these teenagers that already trying to find themselves often are misled by these media images. The models are basically telling the teen especially teen girls, that you are not pretty enough or skinny enough until you purchase my product, this is when anorexia and bulimia and other types of eating disorders starts to develop in young people. As of two years ago the modeling agencies had to implement a minimum weight requirement for their models, because a lot of them were too skinny and un-healthy looking, and if the models were to go under the minimum weight requirement they would be suspended and not allowed to work until they went back to the desired legal weight limit. This was to prevent teen girls from developing eating disorders and negative body image, usually this result in death, suicide and self mutilation.
A positive attitude for the soon to be adult starts when they are young and some maybe as early as toddlers, this is the time where the child is developing their self, the self is a very important factor in determining the type of person that child will grow up to be, the happier the childhood the better person will be the end result, positive words of encouragements even when the child fails will give them a good attitude and positive self actualization.
Even as a young girl I’ve always had a great sense of who I am and what it is I in life I wanted, from the type of guy I wanted to marry, I never let anyone tell me anything negative or positive about Michelle, my self esteem and self worth had always been high. I grew up in a loving two parent home and my siblings and I have always been happy, even though we lived in Haiti my parents were well off, we traveled back and forth from Haiti to Canada on missionary work, I’ve always pride myself in the good works of my parents and I. even though my self-esteem was high, I never had to put anyone down to feel good about myself, rather the opposite I would help lift their spirits because if I were to put someone down then I would feel bad about it and just the fact of looking at them hurt because of something I said would be devastating to me, no matter what negative propaganda was said about me for some reason never effect me in anyway, that is because I always believe that people will always talk about you and call you names but it’s what you believe about yourself and what you answer to that matters.
I watch a lot of infomercials about diet fads and exercise craze, these images of those perfectly toned models portrays a negative body image on the young people watching them, these teenagers that already trying to find themselves often are misled by these media images. The models are basically telling the teen especially teen girls, that you are not pretty enough or skinny enough until you purchase my product, this is when anorexia and bulimia and other types of eating disorders starts to develop in young people. As of two years ago the modeling agencies had to implement a minimum weight requirement for their models, because a lot of them were too skinny and un-healthy looking, and if the models were to go under the minimum weight requirement they would be suspended and not allowed to work until they went back to the desired legal weight limit. This was to prevent teen girls from developing eating disorders and negative body image, usually this result in death, suicide and self mutilation.
A positive attitude for the soon to be adult starts when they are young and some maybe as early as toddlers, this is the time where the child is developing their self, the self is a very important factor in determining the type of person that child will grow up to be, the happier the childhood the better person will be the end result, positive words of encouragements even when the child fails will give them a good attitude and positive self actualization.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Freud's contributino to psychiotry
Freud’s Contribution to Psychology
Freud’s contribution to psychology was the most important step to understand how the human psyche woks. His explanation of drives was very clear to me, where according to Freud drive as an inside motivation to realize all your needs and desires and take away all negative energies that can impact the realization of your goals.
Freud’s conception of human psyche, is also known as the iceberg, in this metaphor is like an iceberg floating in the water and the iceberg is divided into three different sections, the top section is the conscious, the middle part is called the pre-conscious and the bottom of the iceberg is the un-conscious part.
The conscious part of the human psyche is responsible for fulfilling the person’s needs and wants and has no place to consider repercussion, as long as the needs of the individual are met. Example to this is a person that is selfish and only care for themselves and not caring is their actions hurt anyone else, and if they do see the affects their actions have they chose not to care at all. The conscious is also connected to the Ego, the ego is reality thinking
The preconscious is the just beneath the conscious mind and is somewhat unaware of what is going on, people often refer to it as that voice in the back of my mind.
The unconscious is beneath and unaware of what’s going on with the conscious, the unconscious is very important in shaping the personality of the person and how they react to certain situations. The unconscious is also close to the ID, the ID is responsible for pleasure principle and wish fulfillment. The unconscious is very influenced by the individual’s past childhood and other early childhood experiences. If a person had a happy childhood they would often grow up to being very outgoing and are thought of to being a people person and a person with an unhappy childhood would be very reclusive and a loner because they grew to not have any trust for other people.
Freud was a very good psychiatrist in his time, he is known as a the father of psychiatrist this a deserving title for the man that helped us understand how people’s minds work.
Freud’s contribution to psychology was the most important step to understand how the human psyche woks. His explanation of drives was very clear to me, where according to Freud drive as an inside motivation to realize all your needs and desires and take away all negative energies that can impact the realization of your goals.
Freud’s conception of human psyche, is also known as the iceberg, in this metaphor is like an iceberg floating in the water and the iceberg is divided into three different sections, the top section is the conscious, the middle part is called the pre-conscious and the bottom of the iceberg is the un-conscious part.
The conscious part of the human psyche is responsible for fulfilling the person’s needs and wants and has no place to consider repercussion, as long as the needs of the individual are met. Example to this is a person that is selfish and only care for themselves and not caring is their actions hurt anyone else, and if they do see the affects their actions have they chose not to care at all. The conscious is also connected to the Ego, the ego is reality thinking
The preconscious is the just beneath the conscious mind and is somewhat unaware of what is going on, people often refer to it as that voice in the back of my mind.
The unconscious is beneath and unaware of what’s going on with the conscious, the unconscious is very important in shaping the personality of the person and how they react to certain situations. The unconscious is also close to the ID, the ID is responsible for pleasure principle and wish fulfillment. The unconscious is very influenced by the individual’s past childhood and other early childhood experiences. If a person had a happy childhood they would often grow up to being very outgoing and are thought of to being a people person and a person with an unhappy childhood would be very reclusive and a loner because they grew to not have any trust for other people.
Freud was a very good psychiatrist in his time, he is known as a the father of psychiatrist this a deserving title for the man that helped us understand how people’s minds work.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Importance of Values
Importance of values
Values are very important to a student, because values are mostly societal this means a person’s values are based on where and the type of society they were raised in. Values are defined as the specific beliefs of what is desirable and undesirable of thoughts and conditions of being. Values are placed in two categories instrumental and terminal values, values and belief are similar because they both are both end process of evaluating our feelings and new ideas to determine rather we are going to accept them or not.
Instrumental values are when a person uses their beliefs to achieve their goals, in order to achieve those goals they had to make sure that they maintain their ethical and honorable standards, those standards are determine by society standards, many Americans even those that are from different social and economical class all have several similar values in common, this is because of America has a general or universal values which were thought to us from school, such values are to go to school, get good grades and attend college, get married and live happily ever after. These values are constantly being told to us by all the media outlets such as television, radio and print, if you don’t go to school and get good grades you will not be a success. This used to be a popular slogan back in the 1990s “don’t be a fool, stay in school”. Terminal values are use to determine how we will solve problems, some people are able to talk out there problems and then there are those who are more action prone and act instead of thinking and mapping out ways of reaching the solution. Choice can arrive from many different avenues, we can choose to use our minds to make choices or we can choose to use emotions to solve problems
Values are very important to a student, because values are mostly societal this means a person’s values are based on where and the type of society they were raised in. Values are defined as the specific beliefs of what is desirable and undesirable of thoughts and conditions of being. Values are placed in two categories instrumental and terminal values, values and belief are similar because they both are both end process of evaluating our feelings and new ideas to determine rather we are going to accept them or not.
Instrumental values are when a person uses their beliefs to achieve their goals, in order to achieve those goals they had to make sure that they maintain their ethical and honorable standards, those standards are determine by society standards, many Americans even those that are from different social and economical class all have several similar values in common, this is because of America has a general or universal values which were thought to us from school, such values are to go to school, get good grades and attend college, get married and live happily ever after. These values are constantly being told to us by all the media outlets such as television, radio and print, if you don’t go to school and get good grades you will not be a success. This used to be a popular slogan back in the 1990s “don’t be a fool, stay in school”. Terminal values are use to determine how we will solve problems, some people are able to talk out there problems and then there are those who are more action prone and act instead of thinking and mapping out ways of reaching the solution. Choice can arrive from many different avenues, we can choose to use our minds to make choices or we can choose to use emotions to solve problems
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