While reading the article “I Just Wanna Be Average” By: Mike Rose a quote that stood out to me was ” But mostly teachers had no idea of how to engage the imagination of us kids who were scuttling along at the bottom of the pond.” I found this quote to be very relatable in the experiences I’ve had in school settings. I’ve often felt like this with a couple of my teachers through out the years. I often felt like they didn’t really care to have us engaged in there classroom. Most of them didn’t really take the time to interact with us or make the class interesting they just taught straight out of a textbook. Which often made me feel like I was rewatching live lectures more than me being in one.
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Education is where one receives knowledge about our surroundings and allows us to achieve successful careers, however, my experience with education did not seem that way. As a young student, I’ve always struggled and despised the subject of math. I was always placed in afterschool programs due to my low scores and had a hard time understanding problems. Soon my teachers would become frustrated furthermore angry with my lack of cooperation which led me to feel dispirited about learning. With all these negative learning experiences I’ve had with my teachers, it would make me question why I was trying to excel in education when I’m not even sufficient at it. There was this one event I had with my teacher which prompted me to feel discouraged yet want to improve in my weakness. After taking in all the harsh statements said to me, I decided on sharpening my learning skills by studying every day and teaching myself all the topics in the course. Although it was a lot of hard work, in the end, it paid off to earning good grades. This can reveal how experiences with education will always be a way of overcoming difficult obstacles to obtain the desired goal.
While reading ” I Just Wanna Be Average” By Mike Rose I found various things interesting. He speaks about his academic experiences how he went from having a terrible experience to him find him realizing he wanted to continue his education. Durning his academic journey in high school he was placed in vocational classes which was a big difference from college prep. Teachers in vocational weren’t very qualified, the teachers didn’t do anything to engage in the imaginations of kids that were already having trouble in school. The author managed to get by, he learning how to be half alert, meaning paying just enough attention to get by. His junior year he was transferred to college prep. Which he was not prepared for, he felt as if everything looked familiar liked he learned it once before but somehow he wasn’t sure anymore. He was also going through a family crisis. His father had just passed away, when his english teacher came into his life. MacFraland’s was a great teacher which kept all his students intrigued, and helped the author find his passion for reading and motivated him to further his education and go to college.
Watching the video “Broken English Im Articulate” By Jamila Lyiscott I found her video very fascinating. The way she viewed speaking broken english was very intriguing. She explained that speaking broken english is okay and I resinate with that because I also speak broken english at times. I tend to use a lot of slang words when I speak. She also says ” Even articulate Americans sound foolish to the British.” I think that’s a great comparison to what ” articulate Americans ” view people that speak broken english.
I think these two authors Mike Rose and Jamila Lyiscott Illustrate their points in similar ways. Both Authors Illustrate their negative views in their article. Mike rose Illustrates his negative views on education and the way the system should do more to engage students in learning for those students who are just getting by. Jamila Lyiscott also illustrates her negative views on speaking broken English. She explains how society views people speaking broken english. They viewing people as ignorant or ghetto.
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