Rhetorical Analysis and Quotables – Diana Perez

Part 4: Rhetorical Analysis 

Wendy Berliner is an award winning education journalist, author of books that help acknowledge parents on how they can better their children’s learning, as well she is a CEO of the Education Media Centre. With the article “Schools are killing curiosity” Wendy is trying to give everyone in general a heads up on how curiosity plays a key role in a child’s learning development. Berliner made this piece to share the dangers of not letting children explore their curiosity. Children need to expand their imagination with curiosity in order to process the information that is being given to them, as well as asking questions. Obviously in order for a child to learn they need to ask questions whenever they are curious about a subject but since teachers reject them they can’t. Berliner is trying to accomplish and expand everyone’s knowledge about how to help,a child learn better and develop better. Since this is a featured piece, this article includes more than just the facts it includes sources that back up that curiosity is very important in a child’s education journey.

Part 5: Notable Quotables 

“Children are born curious. The number of questions a toddler can ask seems infinite- it is one of the criticall methods humans adopt to learn.” (paragraph 8)

“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.” (Engel- Paragraph 13)

“The children took to the new objects immediately, making slides for building blocks with guttering, dens and spaceships with cardboard boxes and having conversations with imaginary people on old phones. Old keys were used to lock things away or unlock imaginary kingdoms. Most haven’t asked for the toys back.” (Berliner paragraph 15)