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Subjects And Ideas Thoreau Should Be Taught In The Classroom

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Education is the gaining of knowledge through school, people, and experiences to gain skills for life. Definition of learning: The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught. The types of subjects and ideas Thoreau would teach if he ran a school would depend on the questions that his students asked that day. Thoreau liked to teach using a style he called “……………”. This means that he liked to (Enter explanation for the way he likes to teach) (Realized this needs to go in the second body point, oh well). His style was mostly based on student’s curiosity. …………………………………………………………………………………….... The subjects and ideas that I personally think should be taught are ones that will be of use to students once they leave high school, and will help in real life situations. Right now, in schools there are subjects being taught that students will not use past that classroom, and this only hinders student’s potential. If students were to be taught more real life skills then they would be better prepared for the life that they will eventually have to lead outside of school. Another idea is that instead of making students take classes that they are not interested in, let them pick the …show more content…

First of all, students sit in a class that is so many minutes long and they just listen to a teacher prattle on and on. Many students do not lean well this way and they lose interest, causing them not pay attention and they may even fall asleep. Second of all, everything is taught at just about the same pace. Students of all kinds of learning levels are mushed into a classroom and expected to lean at the same speed as everyone else. My last point is that people all learn differently, so why do teachers only teach things one way? There are at least three different methods of learning and most teacher only teach one method, making it hard for the ones that use the other methods, to

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