Homework 09/30/2020

In James Baldwin’s speech “A talk to teachers” he compares the extensive and vast history of the work for how large the world in and of itself is. In doing so he is trying to inform us that the world is larger. The world has so many different opportunities and possibilities, it is vast and i he also brings up a point that we should explore it. He states “we shouldn’t be bound by the experiences of any given administration”. Meaning that we shouldn’t be closed off to one type of experience given to us, and that it’s up to us to make and experience our own things. This is a reoccurring theme throughout the entire speech i’ve noticed. I believe this is also the beauty of how vast the world is, there’s always room to learn and grow. In school i wish we had been taught other things that would’ve been more useful in life. For example, i would’ve loved to have a unit on credit or taxes opposed to the pythagorean theorem. I feel like not only would it have broadened my experience with what is soon to be my new world, but it also would have made me more eager to learn. I also would’ve liked to learn about things like tax return. I just personally feel like these were things that could’ve been taught to us, opposed to unnecessary math problems that we wouldn’t remember the year after. Or i would’ve benefited by learning more about politics in history opposed to the civil rights movement ever year of high school and middle school, over and over again. This would’ve broadened my mind exponentially, and lead me to have more meaningful experiences. I guess you could say in that scenario i was bound by an experience given by an administrator, when i could’ve been experiencing more in general.