Blog Post 6

The post it reading helped me to think more critically about the field of education. One part that caught my attention was a line that said "The students, alienated like the slave in the Hegelian dialectic, accept their ignorance as justifying the teacher's existence- but unlike the slave, they never discover that they educate the teacher." I think often it is thought that the teachers are the only ones who teach, and the fact that the students can actually teach the teacher things as well is totally forgotten about. Though students may not teach the teacher things about whatever subject they are learning, I think that students can demonstrate life lessons that influence the teacher. Another part of this chapter I found interesting was the sentence that says: "The teacher cannot think for her students, nor can she impose her thoughts on them." I think this is significant because if a the students and teacher do not show each other respect, nothing the teacher teaches will stick with the students because they don't want to listen. However, if the students and teacher mutually respect each other, the students will be more willing to listen to what the teacher is saying, and as a result will receive a better education.