Part 4 : Rhetorical Analysis
Wendy Berliner is the author of the piece ” Schools are Killing Curiosity: Why we need to stop telling children to shut up and learn.” Berliner is an award winning journalist and the CEO of the Education Media Centre. The author has written a book titled “How to Succeed at School: What Every Parent Should Know.” The author uses an informative tone in their writing which brings attention to the issue the author is trying to address. Berliners main focus is to inform general public specifically educators through using logos, facts and research, in her writing.
Part 5: Notable Quatables
“When her team logged classroom questions, she found the youngest children in an American suburban elementary school asked between two and five questions in a two-hour period. Even worse, as they got older the children gave up asking altogether. There were two-hour stretches in fifth grade (year 6) where 10 and 11-year-olds failed to ask their teacher a single question.” (para 9) (Susan Engel)
“When teachers teach young children not to ask questions, it is not surprising that high-performing students studied by American researchers in 2013 were found to be less curious, because they saw curiosity as a risk to their results. The questions they asked were aimed at improving their results, whereas the questions asked by more curious students were aimed at understanding a topic more deeply.”(para 12)
“Reading, maths and behaviour were then checked in kindergarten (the first year of school), where they found that the most curious children performed best.” (para 4)
