Education is such an essential and fundamental element in our lives. Throughout education, we acquire knowledge, learn what people before us have discovered or written and undoubtedly carve our own thinking the way we have been thought.
In the article "Education", Ralph Waldo Emerson, a renowned lecturer and visionary thinker, expresses how education that is being adopted in our civilization does more harm than good for the students. He builds up this claim by first presenting a paradox connecting "Genius and Drill", in which one cannot function without the other. For a person to have the “genius” or the natural incline for education, that person must also have the “drill” which is the strong will to learn. Therefore genius is impossible without drill even for the smartest. All throughout the essay, Emerson had a tendency to have a criticising tone against the methods of teaching yet towards the end, it transforms into a soothing one. Emerson's purpose is to display a different style of teaching with a specific end goal to convince teachers to utilize different techniques …show more content…
He discusses how Charles Fellows went and accomplished his objectives without the "traditional" educational system, fortifying his fundamental reason.
He explains step by step in chronological order, how children's/students should learn, including his own methods as well. Emerson uses multiple rhetorical questions to attack the educators to make them question their own course of educating their students. Through his reasoning, we can clearly see the anger and frustration in Emerson as he discloses in altering this current system for the greater good of future students.
In the end, Emerson advances from affirming the imperfections in the framework, to uniting instructors in repairing the issue. Through rhetorical questions, tone and determination, he tries to influence the instructors in changing the
In the article "Education", Ralph Waldo Emerson, a renowned lecturer and visionary thinker, expresses how education that is being adopted in our civilization does more harm than good for the students. He builds up this claim by first presenting a paradox connecting "Genius and Drill", in which one cannot function without the other. For a person to have the “genius” or the natural incline for education, that person must also have the “drill” which is the strong will to learn. Therefore genius is impossible without drill even for the smartest. All throughout the essay, Emerson had a tendency to have a criticising tone against the methods of teaching yet towards the end, it transforms into a soothing one. Emerson's purpose is to display a different style of teaching with a specific end goal to convince teachers to utilize different techniques …show more content…
He discusses how Charles Fellows went and accomplished his objectives without the "traditional" educational system, fortifying his fundamental reason.
He explains step by step in chronological order, how children's/students should learn, including his own methods as well. Emerson uses multiple rhetorical questions to attack the educators to make them question their own course of educating their students. Through his reasoning, we can clearly see the anger and frustration in Emerson as he discloses in altering this current system for the greater good of future students.
In the end, Emerson advances from affirming the imperfections in the framework, to uniting instructors in repairing the issue. Through rhetorical questions, tone and determination, he tries to influence the instructors in changing the