Dear Will Richardson,
After reading your blog and hearing about your daughters trip to D.C it got me thinking the question I think you wanted asked, how do I perceive learning? I agreed with Seymour Sarason’s exert from the book about learning is not a “thing”, but a process. I am an average student and gets average grades, but I know I am smarter than that. The only problem I have in school is laziness. If I applied myself in everything I did I know I could be an honor student and do better in my life, but the way teachers teach my classes and give us homework does not motivate me. Don’t get me wrong I love to learn. I just learn in a different way than American society wants me too. When I go on trips with my family and visit different monuments such as the Statue of Liberty in New York City I definitely receive more information than I would in school. Actually visiting this statue made me actually wonder about the importance of how this was made and why the French would give us such a gift of freedom. I learned more in ten minutes in its base, than I did in three weeks of school. I think that learning is a process and needs to be explored differently by the students understanding of learning. Instead of forcing kids to stand there an hour everyday in the same class getting a lecture and be expected to be motivated to do the work assigned after countless weeks of a bleak, boring class. Learning needs to be a personal kind of learning or at least an adventurous way of learning.
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