Erica Goldson Valedictorian Speech Response Erica Goldson brought up a very controversial and very interesting topic about our current education system in the US. She states that students are so focused at memorizing data and getting good grades, that they miss out on the whole idea of learning and being educated. I agree with her, students should be learning and absorbing the material, instead of memorizing for the next big test and just forgetting about it later on. Graduating seems like the top priority in students nowadays, and to me that is just upsetting. And the students who are very talented and are very motivated to learn and be driven in a non-academic subject seem to have a more negative image than the people who are driven by academics.
Instead of learning some actual useful information, teachers fret over the test rather than about how much that student is actually absorbing into their head. It has become a practice to ‘teach the test’ in today’s teaching world. Tests like SAT, ACT and AP have you pay quite a bit and don’t even show you what you did wrong, blocking out the possibility of even trying to learn from your mistakes. It is believed to be a clever tactic used to gain more profit, students keep coming back to prove they are worth more with those silly numbers. They stress day and night over these overrated tests, like previously stated channeling out the imagination, curiosity and good will.
Also, the endless hours on the field which drains even the best students’ mentally and physically. Petrie says that the collegiate system encourages athletes to settle for lower grades and incomplete programs. Petrie’s Famous quote of the paper is, “The system uses and then discards after the final buzzer.” Which means the college doesn’t care personally for the student and just wants the athletic program to thrive.
It could be the melody, lyrics, harmony, and choreography. Their punishment appears to be more severe by costing them their reputation and their money. Practicing academic honesty affects everyone no matter who you are. Entertainers, students, and business professionals need to understand the importance of academic honesty. Academic honesty is living by a standard as a student especially in higher learning as a mature adult.
An important reason why I do my work in class is because I want to improve my performance. TRUE 11. If I do poorly on an assignment or a test, it is usually the instructor’s fault. FALSE 12. Effort is more important than natural ability for doing well in school.
Flunking students can be used as a positive tool by our education system. The consequence of flunking and holding students back alone can be used to motivate and encourage students to put full effort into class work. Most students fear flunking only because they’re afraid of what friends, peers and society will say or think about them; this is all wrong, the real fear should be failing and not being
This quote was beneficial during his coaching years to help discipline his players. The team had a reputation for winning so many games; but, he wanted to teach his players that building their character is more important than being seen as winners. It is merely what everyone else sees them as only. Mr. Wooden worries more about his students’ character than their reputation because character repeats champions not reputation.
I just do not understand why the main focus of our education has to be all about test. I feel as if my classmates and I were like lab rats, being used for discovery and research, just so the school can gain recognition and reap the rewards for producing good test scores. Many districts use strict curricula’s that publishing companies produce to “promise” outstanding grades if you buy their products and complete them all. When you try to force that on the teachers, it is frustrating to them because they have the freedom of teaching taken away from them and are given a set of rules to produce better test results. Because many teachers and other educators are being forced to move away from teaching in their own preferred style, they must follow a set pace so that their instruction to the students is to what the district mandates instead of responding to the students need.
If he lets himself get out of control so much that he hates someone, then his inner self and soul breaks down or degrades. This means that overall everyone’s opinion does matter and mean a lot, but how you approach it is what matters most. Quote 2: Success is not really success if you haven’t succeeded past any obstacles to get to that sussessful life. “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker T. Washington was telling his readers how he felt through the voice of this quote. This says to me a lot to myself and teach me a lesson.
Then there is the dark side of competition. When it can turn from being motivational, to being detrimental. The more intense and critical a parent is toward their kids’ performance in competition, the more the negative lessons and effects of competition on children is magnified.In some situations the competition is detrimental because though the child worked hard and improves significantly, he will not be rewarded. He will not see the considerable progress that has been made. The negative effects of competition are always present and waiting to latch on to any kid that is not guided toward the positive lessons to be learned.