Topic > University Diffusion - 670

They are normal people who have courage and are willing to go and teach the children of the world, putting up with their behavior for 7 hours a day, one hundred and eighty days a year (In the United States), for 13 years of their life. Students must be willing to teach themselves, striving to succeed in life and not rely on the abilities of the people around them. Over the course of their school career, students have acquired the ability to "change language", depending on the class they attend. Each subject is its own discursive community, students are placed upside down and must "learn on the go". In high school, the material you learn in the same subject last year has nothing to do with the material in class the following year. For example, in history you take American history one year and then European history and then the next. The two arguments have nothing to do with each other. In college classes your professors expect you to be able to connect ideas from different classes and subjects together. This is a problem education, unlike the banking concept used in high schools. Of these two methods, one is more productive in a real-world environment. As stated by Freire “Students… are increasingly faced with problems about themselves in the world… They will feel increasingly challenged and obliged to respond to that challenge” (247, Freire). With the methods used in the current learning system, the skills needed to succeed in college are being lost. When they apply to college they want to improve their skills but they don't have the required skills, so they have to "fake it 'til they make it" or they fail to succeed and drop out. In the article “Agonism in the Academy: Surviving Higher Learning's Argument Culture” by Deborah Tannen, the idea that “We assign them academic works to read,