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Shor Quotes

Empowering Education
By: Ira Shor

"They reported being bored and silenced didactic lectures in classes where teachers raced to cover the material and ignored their questions."

- Ariel stated that she doesn't retain information this way and I can agree. I don't retain information when the lectures are boring and rushed. I feel like rushing through lectures just to cover the material is one of the worse things you can do as a professor. Students are less likely to comprehend all the material when your rushing and not even answering their questions. Its important to allow students to ask questions so they can fully understand the material. Also, its important for teachers to teach the material in an interesting way so the students are retaining the material and are engaged.

“Students in empowering classes should be expected to develop skills and knowledge as well as high expectations for themselves. their education. and their futures”

- I feel like setting high expectations for students can be very beneficial. It pushes the students to try harder and do their very best. It also helps shape them as a person and student. It will help them be well prepared in their future.

"School funding is another political dimension of education, because more money has always been invested in the education of upper-class children and elite collegians than has been spent on students from lower-income homes and in community colleges"

- I agree that the upper-class children and elite collegians have an advantage educationally over the lower-income homes because more money is invested in the upper-class schools. Its not fair that upper-class has a better quality education. You would think that they would invest more money in the lower-income community colleges so they have the resources to perform better academically. Everyone deserves a  quality education with all the resources they need to do so regardless of them being in upper or lower class.

Point to share: How do others feel about Shor's ideas of empowering education?

Link to reading: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0T0ZxUlEwOUNJWlU/view