Author: Samantha (Page 7 of 11)

Curiosity has always been a big aspect of my life. I have always been curious about social classes, ever since middle school, it has always been something I’ve been wanting to dig my head in deeper, to specify New York’s social classes. I can’t remember my curiosities in elementary school besides being a vet and a music producer. Perhaps I was one of those children in school who was taught to learn and pay attention to my elders. I am still very interested in the social classes of New York City, I feel like NYC is so mysterious and there is some underground stuff we don’t know about going on every day.  My go-to answers to my questions were google, I learned all about the lower class to upper class. There are many articles on the internet that give you many pov’s of any classes and an outsider views as well.  My curiosity in this topic keeps growing and growing, there are endless facts and opportunities even open doors that some classes receive while the other class has never heard of. It blows my mind how the upper class has an influence on the government, could we say protected by the government?. A good example would be paying taxes or such things as that. The educational role had a large play in my curiosity, I had sociology and psychology in high school which opened my mind to this topic more. We were taught about social roles, classes, and how our mind has to reach some sort of pinnacle. How we must reach one’s self full potential including creative ideas, is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.  There will still be so many unanswered questions when it comes to comparing classes and a pov of an outsider looking in into all the classes. I want to know and be aware of how to move up social classes, what goes on in the upper or even lower class. I want to see the difference between education to self-actualization.

Annotations

1. “Children, full of questions about things that interest them, are learning not to ask them at school. Against a background of tests and targets, unscripted queries go mainly unanswered and learning opportunities are lost.” This is so true as young kids we tend to have so many questions about everything, and the silliest questions too. But we’re taught to listen to the teacher and learn about what they are talking about.
2. “In a finding critical to tackling the stubborn achievement gap between poorer and richer children, disadvantaged children had the strongest connection between curiosity and performance.” We see here that the most curious kids have a better performance level in reading and math. I know many of my peers who tend to not question anything. I wonder if this could be led to something else like a political uprising.
3. “Teachers who concentrate on developing focus and good behavior because of the links to good academic performance, now need to take on board that developing curiosity could be even more important.” I feel like this does not fall on teachers, the teachers have been probably taught this as well, they were also the students sitting on the mat listening to a story. But Curiosity should not be suppressed and that should be very important regarding many aspects.
4. “When you visit schools in many parts of the world it can be difficult to remember they are full of active, intellectual children because no one is talking about their inner mental lives. How well they behave, and how they perform seem much more important to many people in the educational communities. Often educational bureaucracies have shunted curiosity to the side.” Our mental lives as students are suppressed and this correlates with our curiosity, I feel like curiosity is one of the most important foundations of one’s life. How can a person stop being curious about something, there’s always so much more we can learn about. Let’s look at a group of students who go above in beyond with their thoughts and not how well they look put together.

5. “What children love is to copy what adults are doing with objects. What people and objects do makes them curious about their world. “School kills curiosity. When do children get to ask questions about things that interest them? As soon as they are at primary school they have to shut up and learn. It’s not the fault of teachers. They have so many targets to meet.”” The experiment beforehand is so captivating, I believe we are the “microwave” generation, we want everything done for us in a matter of seconds. Curiosity is being killed, makes me feel like a robot in this world. We as students and teachers should start to reprimand curiosity in the classroom and our lives.