Obviously all of these texts talked about education. That is a given. I feel like each of the texts had great ideas about education and how it could help you in the world as a person. They each gave ideas as to what types of education did what in the world. Each author though had their own little branch that they went off on. Some seemed to think formal education is the key and others thought life education was the key. I think that they authors live in the same world as in that even now, compared to when these texts were written, we have all of these different ideas about how education should be. The text that I liked most talked about how testing what a student learns in class shouldnt just be done by teach, memorize, test. If we are going to give them knowledge, we need to give them knowledge and then let them use it in multiple ways in their lives. That is how we can know that they really actually know something and that they are not just memorizing it for the test and then will forget the information right after because they dont have the opportunities to use it in their everyday lives. That idea is exactly how I grew up learning that education should be like and what my opinion of it now is also.
I enjoyed a lot of the articles in this unit of class. I had a hard time understanding them at first, but after our discussions in class I think I grasped, at least a little bit, of what the authors was trying to get across to his readers. I am very excited to begin the next units readings and open up more ways of thinking for myself.
