Today’s chapter talked a lot about the history of education and our American schools. Although I found this chapter to be kind of dry, and hard to stay focused. Although it gave us a lot of information, I found it hard to stay focused on what I was reading and felt like it was one of the more boring chapters that we read so far. It was very informational and got me thinking about how our educational system and schools have changed in history. I also thought a lot about the bullets on pages 60 and 61 that included: Compulsory attendance, graded schools, tests, textbooks, Carnegie units, and comprehensive high schools. While thinking about these bullets, I considered them each individually and how each one was both a great thing, but could also be changed or tweaked somehow to make the school system better in one or more ways.
As a future teacher, I plan to incorporate what I have learned from this reading by always trying to remember where our education system has evolved from, and that change can be a good thing. I think that great teachers don’t just follow the rules and examples laid out before them, but they take things to the next level, being extraordinary and sometimes for the common good of educating learners, they change things. That is why I have taken the following message from this reading.. change is okay!
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