Part 4: Rhetorical Analysis
Wendy Berliner is the writer of the featured piece; she is a credible award-winning journalist and the CEO of the Education Media Center. Berliner wrote this as a featured piece for educators and the public. This article is written in an informative and encouraging tone to voice the need for change in the education system and inform people of the problems within the curriculum and teaching style. In her writing she includes studies and experiments that directly tie into the main point she is trying to encourage teachers and others to be informed about.
Part 5: Quotes
“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.” (Berliner 2)
“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.” (Berliner 2)
“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.” (Berliner 2)
Hey Kaiulani, I like how your rhetorical analysis is written in an order that a question I could be thinking of is answered one after another. Your quotes support with what you have written in your rhetorical analysis as a good background of what Wendy Berliner’s main points were about.