Education and Equality by sophia serrano https://padlet.com/serranossophia/zgpxujvc6j0uo7in Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2021-12-07 04:10:07 UTC 2025-11-16 02:33:29 UTC hello@padlet.com My Experiences serranossophia https://padlet.com/serranossophia/zgpxujvc6j0uo7in/wish/1932708700 Education has everything to do with how fortunate you were in going to a good school. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to a well-funded school but I could still notice a difference in the quality of edcation in richer schools.
While in high school my experience with writing was greatly affected because I felt that I had to rely on the prompt that was given to me rather than forming my own opinion. As I got older and was given less rigid rules I saw the consequences of not teaching deep critical thinking. Especially outside school the curriculum does not prepare educators to teach students how to analyze deeper especially in their writing. From personal experience I struggled a lot when I had to write essays for my professors and I wasn't given a rigid prompt to follow. The curriculum up until 12th grade had mentioned its students to follow strict prompts and essay formats/outlines. Having to learn how to think critically and write our own opinion without being coerced into an answer.



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Education is very dependent on two things, teachers and curriculum. When one is weak it ultimately affects the quality of education. Education requires a strong curriculum that allows and encourages students to use critical thinking. When it comes to writing specifically, the curriculum hasn't encouraged or taught students to write critically about something that isn't a prompt. For example, the school's curriculum has taught students how to think inorder to reach a single opinion. Rather than forming an opinion and thinking freely for themselves they are guided to think with the sole purpose of fulfilling the answer to the prompt.



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The 'Banking' Concept of Education essay by Freire “ talks about reality as if it were motionless, static, compartmentalized, and predictable. Or else he expounds on a topic completely alien to the existential experience of the students. His task is to fill the students with the contents of his narration-contents which are detached from reality, disconnected from the totality that generated them and could give them significance” (Freire 10). Freire talks about the disconnect between students and their education. This connects back to Anyons article talking about the lack of critical thinking going on in school.





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I noticed you wrote about the elite and most affluent children receiving the best education and most importantly a different education than the rest of the children. Skills like critical thinking are prioritized in their curriculum and are preparing them for life outside school. In your discussion you made me realize the inequality that students that aren't as affluent face, it made me realize the education adds to the systematic oppression and feeds the cycle of wealth.


I noticed you wrote about the middle-class education experience and its flaws. Personally, I can relate to this a lot because I went to a charter school in a middle-class community so although I would consider my education to be a lot better than some of the other schools in my city it lacks critical thinking for their students. A lot of it felt like we were being taught to memorize facts rather than form our own opinions on them.



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I noticed you wrote about the middle-class education experience and its flaws. Personally, I can relate to this a lot because I went to a charter school in a middle-class community so although I would consider my education to be a lot better than some of the other schools in my city it lacks critical thinking for their students. A lot of it felt like we were being taught to memorize facts rather than form our own opinions on them.



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There are many interesting points paulo Frier made in his essay The Banking Concept of Education, but what stood out to me the most was his theory that education turns men and women into lesser human versions of themselves. Freir debates the “banking approach makes the effort to turn women and men into automators” (Frier 3). Freir views the current education system to be the demise of our society, he views the education system to be conditioning students and society in general how to be non-critical thinkers. Rather than teaching students how to be deep thinkers and think for themselves not only in school but in the real world.


I analyzed Freire's essay to be somewhat correct because I also have noticed the education system valuing conformity or over individuality. Since I could remember my school taught through memorization, we were taught first how to retain the information given to us without valuing our own opinion on it.



]]> 2021-12-15 23:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/serranossophia/zgpxujvc6j0uo7in/wish/1950604287 serranossophia https://padlet.com/serranossophia/zgpxujvc6j0uo7in/wish/1950610909 While reading Jean Anyon's article from the Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work about the effects of socioeconomic status between schools has resulted in deeper analysis of my own education and if it resembles what Anyon observed. Anyon observed three very different experiences between all three schools, what I found out to be the most interesting about ANyon had to say was her experiences on seeing what analysis on elite schools. Elite schools react to top quality education in addition to critical thinking. Students are “asked to reason through a problem, to produce intellectual products that are both logically sound and of top academic quality”(Anyon 9). Rather than what my middle class education did, they are asked and encouraged to think deeper into what they hear and see. ]]> 2021-12-15 23:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/serranossophia/zgpxujvc6j0uo7in/wish/1950610909