Topic: 1- Education Beyond the Major
Team: Emily Strassner
Working Thesis: Education beyond a student’s chosen major is critical to their personal development. Enrolling in courses unrelated to one’s major results in the bettering of a student as an individual and a problem solver.
Supporting Ideas & Quotes:
“The highest role of the educator is the maieutic role of Socrates: to help the student come to himself not as a consumer of experience but as a sovereign individual,” (Percy 6). Percy supports the idea that teachers are meant to not only teach students academic information, but also to teach them to become independent. Teachers are not meant to distribute information, they are rather meant to assist students in discovering the material for themselves.
“I propose that English poetry and biology should be taught as usual, but that at irregular intervals, poetry students should find dogfishes on their desks and biology students should find Shakespeare sonnets on their dissection boards,” (Percy 6). Percy agrees with the focus of students’ on their intended major, but believes that much can be learned from thinking outside of the box. By providing students’ with knowledge unrelated to their major, problem solving and critical thinking is enforced.
+Your body paragraphs do a good job of supporting your thesis and you incorporated good quotes
-It’s lacking a bit of information supporting your quotes and thesis
#3 Your percy quote describes your thesis that a student can become greater by his/her own choice. For classes for instance