After I read this week’s survey question “Do you agree Noddings that force students to learn something that they are not interested is immoral?” I gave the answer “no” because that interest is a kind basis right of human being, various people have different interests in education, such as subject the students may interest in different subjects; or interest in different teachers class; or not interest studying in school. But I believe education system has been verified by many field experts and formatted through many years. Even it might fit each individual’s need or interest; it is still a necessary for each person to be equipped with basis knowledge that for each human being to know. We respect each individual interest; we allow different students can have their own thoughts; but they still need to take the basic education as their basis knowledge as a human being. When various students have different interests in school they might be forced to learn some filed knowledge that they are not interested in I will consider that as a kind necessary but not an immoral action so that I could not agree with Noddings’ measurement regard to moral area.
Aizhi
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Hi Aizhi,
I think this issue makes a lot of sense in the light of today's political issues. I agree with you that it is not immoral to teach a student something that they don't care to learn. If all teachers followed this type of 'moral creed' we probably wouldn't be teaching a whole lot of Mathematics or English! Although I do agree with teaching character/moral education within the classroom I don't think we can base all educational curriculums on this alone. There still has to be the traditional foundation of educational subjects taught to students (even if they don't want to learn it). These core subjects are necessary to help students to gain the basic knowledge they need to "survive" in today's workforce. Our students will thank us someday!
Thank you for your posting Aizhi!
~Rachel Handke
Aloha Aizhi,
I must agree with you and Rachel. Students might feel as though the information you are presenting to them is not important to them because it is not relavant to them at the time, but they might us the information in the future. I know that there were times in which I receieved information that I felt was unnecessary, only to find out that I would need the information/ knowledge in the future. I guess it is safe to say that you never know when information will become important to you. Also, it is important to always stretch your mind by adding knowledge and learning. Like Rachel mentioned, our students will thank us someday for the information we presented to them.... especially those who seemed as though they didnt care about your class.
Aloha, Mike
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