3. With the new knowledge of "Institutional Thinking"-create a list of people in public life that you admire. Follow the guidelines set by Brooks. (Something to consider as we continue our study of The Alchemist)
4. The final statements of the article create a reader response.....what is the point?
(Responding to these may be tough. However, you must remember the purpose of this novel is to assist you in figuring out not what you want to do but what you are meant to do.) (15-20 minutes)
The way Brooks examine our education is individuals should learn to think for themselves, examine life from the outside and discover their own values.
ReplyDeleteThe idea from the book “ On Thinking Institutionally” related to idea because learning life lessons and going through things in life.
The list of people that admire me is mostly football players ED Reed, Ray Lewis, Patrick Patterson, and many more other players. They all went through challenges in life but they overcame them, now Hall of Famers.
The point of this article is letting students starting to think for themselves and letting them do things they would. I believe that teenagers have the hardest problem with thinking for themselves because they don't know who they are yet.
Brooks examines the purpose of education by doing a report Individuals should learn to think for themselves. They should be skeptical of pre-existing arrangements. They should break free from the way they were raised, examine life from the outside and discover their own values. The idea from the book negates this idea because going through different phases and obstacles is a part of life. The list of people that I admire most is definitely basketball players such as Skylar Diggins and Candace Parker. They have faced a lot of adversity and overcome the challenges that came along with being a WNBA All-Star. The point of this article is giving students a guide to think for themselves and be there own person. Teens struggle a lot with accepting themselves and finding who they truly are so I believe this article gives them some type of faith to be you.
ReplyDeleteBrooks examines education through the individual, stating that people should be taught to think for themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe idea from "On Thinking Institutionally", the idea connects with our lesson by learning through and from life as it goes on
The list of people I admire are mostly internet friends that helped me get through life with laughs and objectively terribly immoral jokes who stuck through my life since we were all probably too young to make those kinds of jokes. I never got their names, but I will always appreciate them being good friends.
The point of the article is to tell us how students need to be allowed to think freely and to let them do whatever they would, because as it stands teenagers don't know who they really are as a person so they can't really and truly think for themselves.
Brooks examines the purpose of education as learning to think for yourself and to be skeptical of existing arrangements.
ReplyDeleteThe idea from "On Thinking Institutionally" is that when we are in an institution, we become that institution.
A list of people that I admire are, Johnny Depp, and Edward Norton. Because oh how they "become" each role that they portray.
The point of this article is to tell us that we need to look for other perspectives when we're going about life.
1. Brooks examines the purpose of education as individuals should learn to think for themselves. They should be skeptical of pre-existing arrangements. They should break free from the way they were raised and examine life from the outside and discover their own values.
ReplyDelete2.The idea from the book negates this idea because you will go through many challenges through your life and its just apart of how life goes.
3.A few people that I admire would be Lebron James,juju smith schuster,Odell beckham jr, and Eric Thomas
4. The point of this article is to try and get teens to think for themselves and live their own lives. Most teens have a problem being themselves because they are worried about impressing other people but once they get past that point in life they will be just fine.
Brooks examines education by voicing that students need to be taught to think for themselves as individuals. An idea that has been around forever but constantly updated and modernized.
ReplyDelete"On Thinking Institutionally" negates this idea by representing a way of living life and learning from the experiences that come with it.
The people I admire most are those who go through life believing in themselves, loving others, and spreading positivity into the world despite the hate and negativity it brings.
I believe that the point of this article is to create more open mindedness and creativity in our youth. To convince them that conforming to the ideas and molding ourselves into be all the same is not the correct way to live your life.
Brooks examines education as a way of thinking for yourself and as a way of unsettling presumptions.
ReplyDeleteThe idea from the book "Thinking Institutionally" negates this idea because education is also gained through the lessons of life, it's not limited to "liberal education".
Some people I admire would be Serena Williams who made her way to be one of the biggest athletes today and Alicia Garza who challenged police brutality by forming the Black Lives Matter movement.
The point was to emphasize that institutional thinking, despite some of its negative aspects,allows people to explore who they are and give them structure and meaning to go off of.
Education, according to Brookes, has had its purpose change over much of society. To some, education is seen as a way to teach individuals to think individually and differently from others. Brookes views education and various institutions, though as a way to give people purpose not bind them and constrict them as many people still believe. The book negates this idea by having the Shepherd boy not live his purpose out through one institution. The boy originally was a shepherd, happily. But soon had to REINVENT his purpose by selling glass. Purpose and learning in life does not stem from one place. In public life, I admire Christopher McCandless, and individual who is a very commendable person but has gone underappreciated through the years because he sought out his purpose simply just by living.
ReplyDeleteThe final sentences cause readers to reconsider where they do and should find their purpose. It provokes a wonder as to how one can achieve that level on contentedness in their current lives.
Brook Examines the purpose by stating and discovering that individuals need to think for themselves. This relates to the book because the book talks about finding oneself and individuality. All about self journey.My list of people I admire are Yara Shahidi, Michelle Obama, and The point of the article is to start thinking for yourself.
ReplyDelete1. Brooks explains the purpose of education that individuals need to think to learn for themselves. It's a way of learning that has been modified to where no one uses it often.
ReplyDelete2."On thinking Institutionally" negates this idea because people go through many obstacles and challenges through their life.
3. The people that I admire are people who fail in their life but never give up until they succeed their desires. They are the ones who are the successful ones in their life.
4. This article is to expand people's mind that there are many ways to be creative and to live for our youths. Conforming to the ideas lacks the ways youth could succeed in something they desire.
Brooks examines "the purpose of education" should be an institute that should strive for individualism and open mindness of self discovery, values, and happiness... for our future leaders but this purpose should just be limited to specific institutes. Brooks also mentions in "On Thinking Institutionally" is about how self knowledge never stops and continue to persevere in life and its should not be a never ending journey.So it does not negate the Harvard report on the "purpose of education". People I admire are people like Rigoberta Menchu, Roberto Clemente, Frida Kahlo.... because through their active and passive aggressive they made a better tomorrow for their people. The final statement in the article implies 10% is what happens to you and 90% is about how you react to it because work can maintains you but uncomfortable resistance will change you.
ReplyDeleteBrook examines the purpose of education on individuals. He claims that people are not defined by what they ask of life but rather what life asks of us. These expectations and wishes are set be various institutions throughout life, from family to school to a profession craft. However, in "On Thinking institutionally" Brook talk about one's knowledge and each person's relationship with their institution is unique. He also concluded that while institutions do everything viewed as bad in modern society, impede exploration and enforce conformity, they also give meaning to our lives and saves us.
ReplyDelete1. Brooke's examines the "purpose of education" as people breaking free from they were taught or raised and discover the outside world for themselves.
ReplyDelete2. The book "On Thinking Institutionally" negate this idea because going through institution builds us as a person. By doing this we are being defined by what life ask of us.
3. The people that I admire are the ones who don't live in the past but live to see other day, people that take every mistake and turn it into a lesson.
4. The point of the final statement is that institutions are hard and sometimes we want to give up but that's the point to help us grow as individuals.
1.)Brooks examines “the purpose of education” by using his knowledge coming from his experiences and observations. He restates many parts of the report, but then adds in his own opinion by including the “older way of living.” From there he makes his argument.
ReplyDelete2.)“Thinking institutionally” negates “the purpose of education” because the main idea of the book is that everything is an institution and all institutions come with their own rules, which do not allow us to “learn to think for ourselves.” These institutionalized rules begin from the day of birth. The first institution is family, then school, then our careers and so on and so forth. “The purpose of education” is negated by “thinking institutionally.”
3.)Since the people who should make up this list are who people have “ subjugated themselves to their profession, social function or institution.” My list would include my dad so far and I hope I find more people to add to list in my future.
4.)The final statement of “what life asks of us” ties the whole piece together. Learning to learn for ourselves is negated by the endless rules within society's institutions, but those rules are necessarily bad because “ they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.” Institutionalized thinking has many down sides (conformity, and no personal exploration) but that does not mean there is not up sides.
Brooks examines the purpose of education through the Harvard report, which concluded that a liberal education changes the person entirely, so where they throw out their old lifestyle for a new one. That is common among individualistic cultures we live in today.
ReplyDeleteThe book “thinking institutionally” negates the idea from the report by claiming people are defined by what life asks of them, rather than what we ask of life. The report claims that the education we receive asks us to shape our life as we want it.
In my opinion, some of the people I admire, following Brooks’ guidelines are Barack Obama and Dirk Nowitzki for setting an example within their institutions and giving tremendous meaning to their lives.
The point of the last statement is to show the reader that with institutionalist thinking, you give up something and gain something. One can’t encourage both conformity and freedom. Pick and choose what works best.
Brook explains that the purpose of education is to help people become individuals by reorienting themselves. "Thinking institutionally" negates the idea of individualism because it proposes that people do what they do because they have to in order to follow the institution.
ReplyDeleteI do not admire any people, but connecting to the idea of thinking institutionally, most people are following the norm.
The last sentence states that although institutions prevent exploration of oneself, they provide us with tasks to do. This statement relates to our lives. If there existed a choice between school and personal tasks, most people would be confused on what to do with their freedom. Therefore, going to school provides for a "meaning" to life.
Brooks examines the purpose if education as a way to defamiliarize students with simple thinking; to stray away from confirmative thinking. The practice of institutionalize thinking is delaying our individualism.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of finding one’s destiny in the book negates the idea of institutionalized thinking because the Alchemist is all about following one’s own path to where they are fulfilling one’s purpose in life. One has to experience life and learn themselves through free thinking and being. One has to challenge certain concepts of life that are traditional in order to break out of the practice of institutionalized thinking. One of the many actors I admire is Taraji P. Henson because she dropped everything and moved to L.A. to make her dreams come true at 27 being a single mother with only $700 to her name. She had to go against the institutionalized thinking of the boat already “sailing” for her, and that her priority at that point in her life was her son, but she made it herself. She decided to go out and experience that for herself. She took the road less taken and found success in her calling, because she FOLLOWED it.
I believe the point of the last statements in the article was to describe how maybe individualism is our downfall. We sometimes don’t have all the components within ourselves to be able to take on that journey immediately, so the system can be the net below the rope. Sometimes thinking for yourself and being an individual can make you destructive to yourself because you feel alone and worthless because you aren’t progressing, so institutionalized thinking can save you from those dark places of realism.
Brooks perspective of education is for people to step outside the box, try new things, and explore. He describes education as a system that helps students find themselves. He describes it as a system that breaks students down, to build them back up stronger. The book Alchemist negates this idea, because in the book, the characters aren’t necessarily abiding by the way Brooks describes the, “ Culture,” of education.
ReplyDeleteThe people that I admire in real life, is my mother because she shows me what a hard working woman, that is able to provide looks like. I also adore my dad, because he shows me how a man should treat a woman, and he also shows me how to be independent. They have both overcome many trials and tribulations to get where they are.
The idea of the article is to give education a more realistic point of view, because many people don’t understand the true values of education, and what comes along with education. People don’t understand the success in failure, or the process of having to be broke down, in order to be built back up, stronger. The article’s purpose is to give people a better understanding and a different perspective.
1) Brooks examines “the purpose of education” by showing that the purpose is for individuals to learn to think for themselves and to be their own person, to not let other people influence who they are.
ReplyDelete2) The idea from the book “Thinking Institutionally” is that you will go through many challenges in life and how you overcome them is what makes you, you.
3) The person that i admire is my dad because he has subjugated himself to his profession and has shown me what it is like to be dedicated and the outcome of that.
4) The final statement of the article is “But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.” The meaning behind that is that being institutionalized has many down sides, there are still positive things that come out of it.
The purpose of education according to Brooks is that an individual should learn to step away from the conventional path that everyone follows and to challenge oneself to learn on their own and to become their own person with their own thoughts and beliefs that are not just learned from others.
ReplyDeleteThe idea from the book "Thinking Institutionally" negates this idea by stating that we live our lives going from institution to institution and we follow the ideas of that institution not because we have to but because we want to. We follow the rules that have been laid down many years before us because we want to as we see it as our duty to respect the institution. Although in reality institutions just teach people to conform.
Somebody I hold great admiration for is my Nana, because despite the hardships she faced in her earlier life she decided to grow from the experience and break the traditions of her time. My Nana had children when she was very young and then got married and lived the life of a house mom for years, her husband treated her horribly and my Nana wasn't fulfilling any of her dreams. She eventually split from her husband after her children went off to college and she herself went back to college to become a nurse at 44 years old.
The point of the authors final statements is to invoke a reaction in the reader, he does this to make the reader think more about their future and how they will travel through life. The statements are supposed to make a reader question the institutions but to still have a respect for them, but it is important that a person still finds out who they are on their own before following the lines of the institutions.
Brooks claims that the purpose for education is for the learning individual to learn to think. act and flourish by themselves. To learn to be your own person rather that being one that already exist. The idea of "Thinking Institutionally" negates Brooks idea as it states that one should think and act according to what we have been taught, to follow rules and to behave accordingly to them. The list of people that I look up to are all my teachers/ mentors as without them I do believe that I wouldn't be the person I am today. The final statement kind of confuses me but thinking about it schools do ruin a lot within the individual but at the end we learn something that sets us apart from a world that's been lost to it and that's what it means to be ignorant.
ReplyDeleteBrook examines “the purpose of education” by implying individuals should think for themselves. Also that people should break free from the way they were raised, and examine life from an outside view while discovering their own values.
ReplyDeleteThe idea from the book “Thinking Institutionally” negates with Brooks examination by having the approach that we are not defined by what we ask of life but by what life asks of us. Life comes with many institutions which come with their own rules making it difficult for people to learn to think for themselves.
Personally I admire many individuals, but the ones that stick out the most in my life are my father and grandmother.
The point of the final statement is that life’s institutions make it very difficult to keep moving forward and grow as your own individual but the more you persevere the more depth you’ll have compared to others in society.
1) The purpose of education according to Brooks is that individuals should think for themselves and should break free from how they were raised and examine life from the outside, and discover their own values.
ReplyDelete2) "On Thinking Institutionally" negates the idea because it's all about thinking institutionally, just like the title. It's the opposite of how David Brooks perceives education.
3) I honestly admire Lady Gaga. She has worked for everything she has, and she listens to nobody.
4) The final statement is trying to encourage the reader to think for themselves and to think more into their future and how they (the reader) will play everything out.
According to Brooks in What Life Asks of Us, the purpose education is for individuals to learn to think for themselves. Meaning, that everyone should discover their path and learn what works for them.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of thinking institutionally negates with Brooks observation because it contradicts his views of learning as an individual through your journey of life.
Some people I admire are my mother and father because they both came from tough lives and still are rising and working hard everyday.
The purpose of the last statement in the article is for the reader to understand that without having bumpy roads you wouldn't learn and grow as an individual.
1) Brooks examines the purpose of education by stating that people should be able to think for themselves, and schools tend to encourage one specific way of thinking, which takes away from individuals’ learning as everyone thinks in different ways.
ReplyDelete2) The idea of “thinking institutionally” negates this idea because everyone is expected to conform a little due to the rules, pressures, and expectations set up by the many different institutions of society. However, Brooks states that despite all the pressure to conform from society, people still need to be able to question things and have a mind of their own.
3) I admire people who have the strength to keep going, despite all the obstacles life throws at them. They motivate me to always keep going, even when life gets tough.
4) Even though institutions pressure us to conform in certain ways, they also teach us important life lessons that help us keep pushing forward.
Brooks explained the purpose of education is having individuals learning on their own and not follow others, to challenge ourselves to learn our own different path.
ReplyDeleteIn the book "Thinking Institutionally" it states that we live our lives by being told what to do, we follow it because that's all we know.
I admire the people to have the courage to follow their own path, even if they're going on it by themselves. Doing what they wanna do because they want to do it, not because everyone else is doing it.
The purpose is for students to start thinking on what they want to do, and to be doing it for the right reason.
1) Brooks examines the purpose of education about having individuals discover on their own what they want and not by following others.Brook's say's that we should pave our own path and learn what works for us and what doesn't.
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