Students don’t spend enough time preparing for their classes, requiring students to study outside the classroom will overall benefit their academic quality at college. Students using online resources, starting studying groups, using other resources, and just overall studying will preform better in their classes.
Author: Richard Walther
Discussion 9/25 Abbey
People: Isabella, RJ, TJ, Nick
Leader did not show up
Writing Project 1
Topic 3
Team Selection: RJ W., Brandon Z., Chad W.
Thesis: Freire’s words can be applied to the the faculty and students of WCU by the students ability to learn, the teachers ability to teach, and the human’s ability to understand confined into race/class/gender
“Projecting an absolute ignorance onto others, a characteristic of the
ideology of oppression, negates education and knowledge as processes of inquiry. The teacher presents himself to his
students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence. The students,
alienated like the slave in the Hegelian dialectic, accept their ignorance as justifying the teacher’s existence—but, unlike
the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher.”
“Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in “changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which
oppresses them”; for the more the oppressed can be led to adapt to that situation, the more easily they can be dominated.
To achieve this end, the oppressors use the banking concept of education in conjunction with a paternalistic social action
apparatus, within which the oppressed receive the euphemistic title of “welfare recipients.” They are treated as individual
cases, as marginal persons who deviate from the general configuration of a “good, organized, and just” society. The
oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society, which must therefore adjust these “incompetent and lazy”
folk to its own patterns by changing their mentality. These marginals need to be “integrated,” “incorporated” into the
healthy society that they have “forsaken.”
Writing Topic 3 Leadership
When: Sunday @ 1
Where: Tables outside of Starbucks next to the library
About: The group will be talking about topic 3 and how it applies to Freire and WCU. We will shortly analyze Freire’s words and talk about how they relate to the students and faculty.
Response for Memorization group
My group talked about the significance of memorization and it’s usefulness in both high school and college. In high school, the curriculum wasn’t as challenging which allowed students to just pass classes with memorization. In college, you’re kinda forced to study and understand the information in order to pass the test and the class. Memorization is beneficial to some extent because you use it every day remembering homework and what you need to get done, but its not beneficial in the long run. In high school, going through units and information memorizing it for the test is pointless because as soon as you take the test all the information is forgotten about. In college, the professors want you to understand the information and you should want to understand it as well considering you’re paying for the class. High school teachers are more lenient on information because most of the classes are general education classes that everyone needs to take. In college you get to confine your classes down to what best suits you and learn the information that will help benefit your future.
People: Ava H, Sam W, TJ F, Kira A, Lauren B, Katherine S