ruler of the nation

The “ruler of the nation...” is about a man name Eshu. He has many responsibilities which include protecting the travelers from roads, crossroads. He also has the power to choose fortune and misfortune, and the personification of death. Though Eshu isn’t always about protecting, he believes in choices and chance. In order to get where you need to go, you should know where your going. In the beginning Eshu finds a Christian, he does not believe his way nor his beliefs. Eshu, mocks the Christian, he feels that he does not believe in free hardship because he does not please the Gods. Eshu, is known for not being weak or distracted, when it comes to blaming people for what they did. Eshu is mixed with good and evil. Some might think his doings are evil, when in reality he is just testing what you believe, and how you act upon your belief. Eshu believed that he can predict the future, because many people are predictable. He punished a person today for thoughts or actions that he had tomorrow. Society, gives credit and understanding to their citizens, as for Eshu. He defines what is pure and what filth is. He mixes society views and twists them. Instead of rewarding the good, and punishes the foolish, we rewards them both. The people believe as long as you are in good terms with Eshu, you won’t have any enemies. Eshu isn’t one who would seek to please himself, just to serve justice. But everyone questions everything, once in a while. When Eshu layed his eyes on Olorun he believed that he was born again. That somewhere out there, destiny had found its way to him and he is letting it in with open arms. Outside of the world of Eshu, people believed that a new world could be built, one where you can learn efficacy of patience that would be identical to heaven and earth. But in order to receive this you must have patience and resistance to the temptation of vengeance. That the place you live is just the dark before dawn. That you must reveal your weakness, and by resisting they will make you stronger. In the end, a new world will be given to you, but you must not give in to temptation, or else your new world will be gone, and you would create another world like your own. The ruler wanted peace and tranquility but in order to make it, he would have to give trust in his people to make it come true. Do his people have the strength not to give in to temptation?

Reflection 18

I believe education is for improving, and there is always improvement for the improving. A society is greedy, especially in today society. We always want what we can’t have, and if we have it we always want more of it. For example Power, Power is knowledge and an aspect that we have yet to grasp fully, because we don’t know how to gain complete knowledge or use it to our full potential. In the early centuries they used the bible to better themselves. For example they used “Our weakness and inabilities break not the bond of our duties.” Most people use the bible tells this day, they rely on it to better themselves, and to keep themselves in check. This is a different type of knowledge that they tried to teach their students, because they society had yet become so big. However, today the bible, to some people, is common knowledge. The sinner and the saints are basically wrong and right. What you choose to do and what you do isn’t Gods fortune upon you, but just what you know and what you need to learn. Though, now they do not teach us of holiness in school, if we want holiness we must seek it ourselves. Instead they teach us physically and mentally. Physically a man named Spencer taught us to use our surroundings to better ourselves. We have the strength to get pass anything, they just play different forms in front of us, and so we must over come the same obstacle, just in a different form. Spencer’s curriculum was based on that it will be put into practice in one form or another. In class or out of class, we still obtain knowledge. A class room setting only limits us to one kind of subject. But when you’re out in the real word, the knowledge you obtain has to be put into use, for you to use towards society. Putting your knowledge to use in society, allows you to move up in society, and makes a better living for you. The more knowledge you obtain doesn’t mean you will make it in society, but how you use your knowledge will take you places you want to go. In Froebel practice he taught teachers feelings as well as a role model. In society you have to present yourself so other people will acknowledge you and respect you at the same time. Feelings are a part of nature; whether you think of it as a curse or a blessing you must but it into good use. In society you will confronted by different kinds of people will different personalities. Not all personalities mix well and you might not like everyone you see. But still, if you work with them, you must learn how to act, and respect the person, just as your own equal. Froebel also taught teachers to be “open, and easily approachable.” If you are approachable you can move up in the world easily. Many companies want people who can work well with others. If you are approachable and have the knowledge to do the job, then you are hired. It’s a win, win situation for both of them, the company, and the employer.

Reflection 17

In the Early centuries New England education was based on Religion. Everyday they would pray in the morning and evening. In class they would dedicate time to teach prayers, creed, verses, and the gospel. They would make the children recite Gods work until they memorized it. When kindergarten students were taught the alphabet, they would relate it to the bible. For example for the letter A instead of apple like they use now, they would use “In Adam fall we sinned all.” They had a verse from the bible for each letter in the alphabet. In the early centuries they would mostly teach writing and grammar, the sentences that they showed taught them how to better themselves. For example they used “Our weakness and inabilities break not the bond of our duties.” Everyday they would learn numerous terms to better themselves and put it into action. They also took a catechism, which is a test answering questions about the bible, and God. This is a 107 question test, and this was called the “short” catechism. The early centuries New England did not different much from what our private schools offer. In Catholic and Christian schools like Dade Christian offers classes were they have to pray, and read the bible. This is a mandatory class that if you miss you will be punished for. In Dade Christian they also have something similar to the Catechism. Instead of taking the FCAT which is your requirement to pass, you have to take the Catechism. This is a mandatory requirement to pass. In 1852 New England education would change how we teach students today. Froebel was the first to practice and train teachers that they should “be highly respected people with values that the children should imitate. They teacher should also be a sensitive, open, and easily approachable person.” Froebel but his plan into action and opened up a school, for years he had it running training teachers, and giving students the knowledge that they deserved. The government became suspicious about this technique and didn’t believe it was to their beliefs so they shut it down. When German immigrated to the United States after the German Revolutions, they were taught by Froebel teaching. They opened schools with Froebel teaching up again and started teaching his way. Another man who didn’t believe that religion should control our school system was Spencer; he felt that “religion was a pointless attempt to gain knowledge of the unknown.” So his curriculum activities were based on needs to implement in one form or another. After they added different curriculums and taught writing and arithmetic as well as other general subjects the students attendance boosted from 1816 to 1861 by nearly triple the amount from before. This century is what shaped education today, why we teach the way we do and how we act towards our students. Because knowledge isn’t only a physical control, but it is also a mental one.

Reflection papr 16

Rhetoric is the oldest disciplines in the world; its earliest antecedents can be found in Greece. Greece had two reputations one on which they held high standards and high class, another one was that Greece was suspicious. Plato wasn’t found of the Rhetoric’s and constantly criticized them. Plato stated that the Rhetoric’s were “unintellectual and immoral profession.” Plato thought that the rhetoricians were more concerned with their “appearances” rather than the “substance.” This relates to Roman education because they always wanted to show off, they even gave their schools new libraries just to show that they are the best. The Rhetoricians played a major part in how everyone viewed Plato. You either believed Plato or you believe the Rhetoricians, because both of them had apposing arguments that if you choose to follow one, it would lead your life much differently then regular Greece. Plato believes that “genuine knowledge corresponds to a fixed truth.” In Roman education, they teach you character sound this allows you to speak up when you believe something is right or when it’s wrong. You can also learn to argue your situation. Plato did not want the citizens of Greece to become this way, because then they will question everything. In Greece you should not question the Gods or the way of the rules. Once you question the rules, you no longer believe or live by them. In that case you have created chaos, which is one thing Greece did not need, nor want. Were as the Rhetoricians wanted to use language to persuade his audience and teach them how to persuade other people. “By using language persuasively could naturally lead the listener away from the truth”, was Plato thought. In Roman Education two themes were quaestiones and causae. By practicing these techniques in school, it allows the students to imagine scenarios. For example they are allowed to give advice and be the teacher for a situation. The learning of the Rhetoric had a strong “democratic” and “civilizing” effect. This affects the society because in Roman education it taught the sententiae the division and the colores. In the sententiae, it allows the citizens to argue their statement for and against the apposing side. This allows the citizens to speak up, and stand for what they believe in whether it is right, or whether it is wrong.

Reflection paper 15

In Athenian the purpose of education was so that they could expand their knowledge. Instead of knowing a lot about a certain subject, they know a little about a variety of subjects. Athenian didn’t want their son’s to specialize in a specific job; instead they wanted them to explore and see what jobs interest them. As for the Roman education, it was passed down from generation to generation. The parents would specialize and teach the kids, the schools would teach the students as well. They did not see the variety of things, just what they should do, and get it done. As for the Athenians girls they stayed at home, they would learn housekeeping and motherhood. This rule did not apply to all Athenian woman, some families hired private tutors to educate their draughts. Of course this only came for a high price, but a high price gave them an education. As for the education in Roman, girls learned how to sue, they were not restricted to house chores, they usually spend an entire day sue, while also doing house chores. They learned how to multitask. In Athenian school’s were affordable to everyone, you still had to pay money for school, it’s just that everyone had enough money to do so. Unfortunately in the Roman education not everyone could receive one. The rich people in Ancient Rome put a “great deal of faith” in education they were taught in school and by a private tutor. Where as the poor people only learned how to read and write. In Athenian schools, there were no materials. Everyone sat on a bench and what ever was given to them would be placed on the students lap, and would be written on there. Students would receive their education at dawn; schools then would be let out at noon. For academic purposes they learned grammar, music, and gymnastics. As for the Roman education there classrooms were separated from the society by a curtain! As for teachers, they weren’t the nice young ladies you would see in town. Instead teachers were retired military men. Being from a military background, the discipline was strict, and the beatings were given out on two occasions, for misbehaving and for careless mistakes. Athenians children were also accompanied by a Pedagogue, a pedagogue was a slave. He did what the master want, and what the master want was what was best for his kid. The pedagogue was to make sure; the master son was not socializing with the “wrong” crowd. He also observed his masters son, making sure he did not obtain bad habits that would disrupt his learning. As for the education in Roman the boys did not have a pedagogue, instead his father would practice or teach his son reading at home. Though their learning experience was based on fear, the Roman boys were beaten for the slightest offence, the Romans thought that a boy would learn “correctly and accurately if he feared being caned if he got something wrong.”

Reflection paper 14

Aristotle’s ideas impacted the modern western education by, in the great chain of being; Aristotle was trying to make sense of the relationship among living things. Everything had a place in the world; you were either at the top of the food chain, or the bottom of the food chain. Aristotle had a vision of perfection and the universe was his subject. The Great Chain was perfect, there were no “empty links in the chain, and no link was represented by more than one species.” This impacted the modern western education by in Aristotle mind species could never change. This created higher thinking in the western education, not allowing them to create a more active view of the natural world. Without these limitations it is plausible that Darwin would never have made such an impression why he published his idea about evolution. Aristotle also came up with the four causes; the first cause described materialist views and outcomes. For example a silver cup, this cup was shaped to be a cup and there for will forever be a cup. This is taught that what you see is what you get, in order to receive more you must make the best out of what you already have. The second cause is, the objects form and pattern. What you make out if it is what you get, but the use you put in it, and the value you give it, is worth more than the actual object. The third cause is, initiating a source. This is where cause and effect come to play. When you cause something to happen, the effect will become your outcome and that is what has changed. The fourth cause is the purpose of the thing, the purpose to go to school was to get an education. You as a citizen were something to society being about to get an education was to improve your position, allowing you to move up in the world, or just giving you the chance to play your role in society. Aristotle also impacted the modern western education with the unmoved mover. Aristotle explains to us that this means what it is what it is, but it also is potentially something else. This comes to play in the western education with gifted programs. They may be perceived as dumb and initiatively have no motive in being in school. Yet just because it is perceived that way doesn’t mean it is that way. Gifted kids become unmotivated when they have no one to motivate them. Being stuck in a class learning the same thing as everyone else when you already know it gets boring. Therefore they get themselves into a habit of sitting back and not caring. This is the case of it being potentially something else, when you don’t feel you need to learn something you won’t; it is as simple as that.

reflective #13

Plato ideas impacted modern western education by as a child you are taught to dream big. Along the way your writing becomes your inspirations and what you write is what you imagine happening or hope to happen, this was one of Plato’s ideas the apprehension of pure sense images. Another impact was comparing objects to nouns and using metaphors. This was Plato perceptive knowledge of sensible objects. We use it in every day life, using words “of”, “like”, or “as”. This is especially useful in poetry and trying to convey the message. As for Plato idealism, he believed that the truth is in all things. You are not only taught to speak the truth at home, but during your life time it is suppose to carry out and become habit. Plato goal for reaching eternal truth and perfection is unrealistic. Yet Plato had taught us through his truth that we can create goals for our future, and create morals. Plato believed that math was the essential to truth, that sense math has a problem and a solution to each equations then so should the human race. Unfortunately as the human race evolved so did the math problems. There are more complex problems, in a math problem there isn’t always a solution. School teaches you good, and bad, and right from wrong. Plato believed that good was the source of all true knowledge. Good comes to us in different forms. Whether it is through a person, an action, or words good as evolved and interoperation comes into effect. To become a teacher your record must be cleared. In order to teach what you know and lead generation after generation you have to set an example. Good can only come when you layout certain restrictions so the outcome will become a good one. Plato thought that “people should embrace ideas and reject matter to progress toward the good.” When people reject matter and embrace ideas things become unstable. The thing with the human mind is that everyone can retain the same information and take different outcomes from it. This is not a bad thing, using interpretation and opening up people minds allows us to widen our society and accept different out comes or allow us to expand on different possibilities. Being open minded doesn’t always lead to possibilities; some can break an old habit. For example young boys were taught from day one competition the desire to be the best you must beat the best. Plato believed that just being opened minded means that this clears the way of being selfish and clears the desire to win. Allowing yourself to be open minded you have to have a critical focus of what others believe and what they do, not to mention why they do it and how it benefits them and their culture. In school you are presented with different race and ethnicity, you are exposed to something new each day. As teachers, they are taught to accept different cultures, yet you can only accept if you understand why they do the things they do, which is when your open mind comes to play. As for Plato reminisce he argues that the Socrates believed that “man cannot enquire either about what which he knows, or about what which he does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire: and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the very subject.” This relates to education, because it’s as simple as that, you either knows your material or you don’t. Life has no time for you second guessing yourself, and neither does your teacher.