Chapter 2 Jean Piaget and his Cognitive Theories Of the theorists that are listed in chapter 2 of the Adult Development text, I found in reference to the different theories on childhood development I believe that I most closely related with the findings of Jean Piaget. I appreciated his natural curiosity and admired the fact that he did indeed, do the research himself. Piaget, In 1919, taught psychology and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. There he met Simon (of Simon-Binet fame) and did research on intelligence testing. He didn’t care for the “right-or-wrong” style of the intelligence testing and started interviewing his subjects at a boys school instead, using the psychiatric interviewing techniques he had learned before.
His unorthodox methods not only taught the boys to think for themselves, but they also awoke the boys’ inner desires and dreams. This movie does an excellent job of portraying the school’s four pillars (tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence) and the four I’s (individualism, innocence, intuition, and imagination) through members of the Dead Poets Society, specifically Todd Anderson and Charlie “Nuwanda” Dalton. Todd Anderson showed the best understanding of the philosophies of transcendentalism, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson’s. Todd failed to follow Emerson’s philosophy of “Imitation is suicide” until the very last minute of the movie, when he daringly stood up on his desk and called out “Oh Captain, my Captain!” to Mr. Keating. He could not hold in his guilt anymore because he felt bad for conforming, or imitating, what the other members of the Dead Poets Society had done in Mr. Nolan’s office.
another social insitiution is william, who not only supporst his writing talents, but also helps him gain confidence within his work. he allows him to visit ehrn hr needs too and he helps him by editing his work too sheer perfection. Jamal even refers to him as his "teacher" which is a huge sign of respect when his fellow peers begin to get curious. one other inferior soscal institution would be claire, a female who is present throughout his school career, but he also begins to devolpe feelings for her. this is an achievement because he is actually beginning to show feelings for a person outside his
Though being serious topic you wouldn’t think that satire would create a standing argument but Fridman proves us wrong by making his point and opinion pop right out of the passage. This helps support the writing by attracting more readers though his unrealistic writing for the subject. Fridman connects to his readers through pathos, as many can relate this passage to their unpopular but successful experience in high school or even middle school. This association between the readers and the writing generates more feedback and interest of his work. As he says, “it is a high time to face the persecutors who haunt the bright kid with thick glasses from kindergarten to the grave.” The bullying, the teasing, and the harassing for their abilities and their “disgusting taste” must be stopped, as stated in his writing.
The teachers that have Crabbe in their class rooms are tough on him because they are preparing him for his adult life which is much different than his adolescent life. Crabbe’s teachers may be strict upon him but they are giving him helpful advice so he does not mess up his life and regret it later on. For example, Crabbe’s gym teacher Grant catches Crabbe having alcohol on him; he has a little talk with him and turns him into the principal. Crabbe is disgusted by Grant’s actions but really Grant is just trying to help Crabbe with his problem. No teenager should be drinking alcohol; Grant does not want Crabbe to get addicted with the alcohol so he tries to put a stop at it.
In the text Anderson carefully words the description of Myers actions to show us the hidden purity of the wrongfully accused, “In a way the voice and the hands, the stroking of the shoulders and the touching of the hair were part of the schoolmaster’s effort to carry a dream into the young minds” (Anderson 3). If he had not been a male teacher and had shown the same affection to his students he most likely would have never been infamously known for his hands. Looking at gender and desire in a different aspect, we have The
When Assef gives someone a little legal education, you get the impression that he enjoys it and doesn’t care about hurting people as it says ‘I will never forget how Assef’s blue eyes glinted with a light not entirely sane and how he grinned, how he grinned, as he pummelled that poor kid unconscious’. You get the impression that he finds this funny and thinks that he has the right to hurt people and enjoy it and find it amusing at the same time. In the book we learn the perfect word that describes and sums up Assef this word is “sociopath”, this is the also the word that Amir uses to describe Assef. I think that are first encounter with assef, kind of prepares us for what happens later, as we learn that he is a sick minded person by how he think he can treat people, but I don’t think that from this impression we get of Assef we don’t think he would do what he did to Assef, we would just think that he would beat him up. I think that Hassan reaction to Assef, when he threatens to give Amir a little legal education, is extremely brave especially their difference in class.
Moore does a great job connecting to his readers by using satire and humor to make his point, but does not sway from the seriousness of the subject by embedding facts about education. He does however, have an angry tone throughout his article, but he seems to use that in a way to give the reader a sense of anger towards the subject also, thus making the reader feel more connected with his text. As he talks about his personal encounters with school, he changes his tone once more as he makes us feel more sympathetic towards his subject. He really sparks the cognitive skills of the reader by using humor and facts to argue his opinion about the educational system, but at the same time he knows how to change his tone and change the readers’ emotion. Moore mesmerizes his audience by presenting horrifying facts about the “state of stupidity in this country”(128).
Even though he has only started to grasp the language, the doubts given to him by his teacher suddenly go away, “You exhaust me with your foolishness”, his teacher says. He responds in his broken French “talk me more, you, plus, please, plus”, not caring about the insults anymore. He wants his teacher to keep speaking anything to him so he can learn. It doesn’t matter what she is saying as long as he can sharpen his new skills. All the doubts David had before, given by his teacher and himself, go away.
I wish that there was more detail surrounding Dibs’ behavioral issues. That being said, all in all I really enjoyed it, some parts more than others. My favorite part was actually the letter that Dib himself wrote as a letter of protest against the recent dismissal of one of his classmates. Dibs’, even having gone through so much turmoil in his past, has grown up to be a charismatic, compassionate, sensitive, leader. In his letter, Dibs’ expresses his protest to the head of the school by arguing that his classmate was not trying to cheat by copying off of him, but that he was trying to look at Dibs’ paper to make sure that he had the correct date down and as Dib’s argues, “He said he was verifying a date – an important date in history – and since accuracy is of date is essential to establish its very existence, then it should indeed, be verified” (Axline, 1964, p. 217).